Soyo 6BA+iii motherboard and jumper JP8 help needed

[Gusher]

On this soyo mobo, setting this jumper supposedly "fools" the processor (intel Piii 600) into thinking the fsb is running at 66. This supposedly allows you to use the multiplier to overclock where Intel chips would not normally do so.

Anybody try this or get it to work?

Can the Piii indeed be fooled like this?

Help appreciated.

Gusher

[Placid]

Its not to fool a locked cpu into thinking its unlocked. Its so if your using a 100mhz cpu you can set it to less than a100mhz fsb.
Why you would want to do that I have no idea.

[puppet]

That jumper was mainly used when the pii350 was being used. Some earlier 350's where unlocked. Setting that jumper "fooled" the cpu into thinking it was running @ 66mhz FSB....thus making other multipliers available to you. Since you control the ACTUAL FSB setting in the BIOS....you would set that to whatever FSB you wanted with the newly found multipliers.

AFAIK.....intels' cpu's after sometime in '98 are locked....oh well.

[Rainmaker]

Had the same motherboard die on me a month ago. If I remember correctly setting this to 66mhz was supposed to make available fsb settings between 66 and 100 which would come in handy if you're overclocking a celeron ppga since 100 was not as easy to reach as they are now with the fcpgas. The 90 and 95 fsb settings proved particularly useful.

[Gusher]

Rainmaker (Jun 14, 2001 08:35 a.m.):
Had the same motherboard die on me a month ago.

Well, gee... that's encouraging! ;-)

Actually, I'm gonna fart around with this mobo. If it pops a cork, no big deal - it's outdated anyway. Besides, it's only money!

Gusher

[puppet]

OUTDATED........hardly m8 :)

[Rainmaker]

The board died because of a voltage surge. Soyo did not skimp on QA with this board. Still cannot replicate the stability I got with my c600@1053 with my current board. Wish I had one now.