P800eb and Sy6BA+III = bad!!

[tainice]

man, i was so hyped to plug my new socket 800eb into my board, and all of a sudden, all kinds of problems appeared, and them my data were been corrupted....i have to start from the beginning:( i have no idea why....i mean, i put slot type of 300a, 600e and 800e in there no problem, and now..:confused: man, donno what to say.:eek: why am i so misfortune this year!!!!!!!! everything went wrong!!!!!!!!!!!:mad: :mad: :mad:

[MilkPowder-2]

Tainice, I had same kind of crap problem a long time ago.
First question would be what Hard drive and model are u using? Hard drive is the first thing to look for. I wait your reply..

[tainice]

thanx man, but i just found out the damn problem....it was my board could not handle anything up to 120!! what the!! this board has 1/4 dividers, fsb max at 155, and it cannot handle mere 120? oh, god:mad: anyway, i am going to get my self a GA-60XET-C, we will see how it does.

[Yodums]

Damn looks like lots of people are starting the year with some bad luck like myself, funny person and who knows.

Well at least you resolved the problem since HDD corruption usually occur when the PCI bus is around 40+ and your HDD will run at your PCI bus so that's why you got data corruption.

[tainice]

donno man, road is being rough for me so far:( well, at least i hope that XET-C wont turn out to be a disappointment. wish me luck, i really need it!!

[DaveB]

I've been able to run that Soyo BX board at 150 MHz. Sounds like bad or cheapo PC100 SDRAM to me. Since the board has the 1/4 divider, 133 MHz plus is not a problem for the hard drive.

[MilkPowder-2]

Originally posted by DaveB
I've been able to run that Soyo BX board at 150 MHz. Sounds like bad or cheapo PC100 SDRAM to me. Since the board has the 1/4 divider, 133 MHz plus is not a problem for the hard drive.

It's depends..
Like most of HDDs today are quite OC-friendly. Handling at those bus speeds@ 1/4 PCI is no problem but, not all HDDs. I had an old one before. I also have seen few other older HDDs. They can't handle $hit. Not even 110mhz FSB@ 1/4 PCI, what a crap that is.. POS HDDs. The newer ones handle much better. Some get zero data corrupts at very high FSB.

[tainice]

Originally posted by DaveB
I've been able to run that Soyo BX board at 150 MHz. Sounds like bad or cheapo PC100 SDRAM to me. Since the board has the 1/4 divider, 133 MHz plus is not a problem for the hard drive.


I have to tell u, i have tried three different kinds of ram, kingmax 150, infenion 133, and no man pc100, and all three fail to hit even 120 stable. infenion 133 was in my another mobo with fsb 145 stable, and kingmax 150...don't need to say much..162fsb case2. those are all high quality stuff, and certainly not cheap at all..:( but i still cannot hit 120?!

[funnyperson1]

Originally posted by Spammer
Damn looks like lots of people are starting the year with some bad luck like myself, funny person and who knows.

Well at least you resolved the problem since HDD corruption usually occur when the PCI bus is around 40+ and your HDD will run at your PCI bus so that's why you got data corruption.

hmm....read the "its officialy dead" post because it isnt....i wiped and cleaned the cpu off with artic sivler and it booted up and its running at 852 somehow???

[DaveB]

I checked with my friend who has the Soyo SY-6BA+III. He couldn't get a slot 1 PIII 533EB to run any faster than 124 MHz FSB on his motherboard. I tested it at 150 MHz in my SY-6BA+IV with no problems. Since the board has no problem running at 150 MHz, it must be a BIOS issue. Try flashing to the latest BIOS. I don't think it would be any problem to run a 133 MHz FSB FC-PGA CPU with a slotket though. With a slotket, you could set it up as a 100 MHz CPU and then just up the FSB.

Some other ideas. Did you enable SDRAM Precharge? My SY-6BA+IV wants that enabled to O/C to higher FSBs. I've been running mine at 142 MHz since July of 2000 with no problems set at 2-2-2 with Mosel Vitalic SDRAM. Above 118 MHz the PCI clock gets too high for a lot of hard drives. For example, at the 120 MHz you're talking about, 120/3=40 MHz. Try 124 MHz where the 1/4 PCI divider kicks in (124/31 setting). That takes the PCI bus and hard drives out of the equation, leaving only the CPU and SDRAM. Also my Mosel SDRAM also didn't like running at CAS3 at all, and only runs stable at CAS2 with SDRAM Precharge enabled.

[tainice]

DaveB:

thanks for such extensive and detailed help! i am currently running my board at fsb126. For some reason, my board does not like anything 130+. very stange. anyway, i will try to enable precharge, and set my sloket to 100mhz at beginning to see what will happen. post my result like 10 min. later.


i am back, no...none of those tricks worked, 126 is the absolute max fsb of this moard, what a shame:( anyway, thanx for the input.