- Joined
- Apr 15, 2001
- Location
- Turku, Finland
It happened strangely - I was looping 3D Mark 2000 with Vcore at 2.10V. Everything was sweet and and stable. Then suddenly screen went black and power led began to blink like in suspend mode.
I tried to reboot, set everything back to default, took out all the cards and drives, tested with different memory, PSU and display card (PCI), even cleared cmos by taking battery out - no help. I thought that voltage killed the tortured CPU (finally got it stable at 868MHz) and borrowed a celeron 400 from local shop. Didn't help. The shop keeper was kind enough to borrow me Abit BH6, slocket and TNT2 m64 for testing! With TNT2 machine showed some signs of life but not enough... Switched then to BH6 and there it was, alive again.
There are no seeable defects on motherboard, all capacitors etc. look just as before. I think that it was anyway too high power consumption that killed the board. It is rev 1.00 which, if remember right, doesn't have as strong 5V line as later revisions.
I think I'll buy this BH6 (cheap, used), although it doesn't seem to be as good as P2B-f was. It has low VIO (3.28V), no headers for thermistors or on-die diode and I had some problems with PCI slots. ISA slots, which I would need for old scanner controller card don't seem to work at all - reports bios checksum error (?!) and asks system diskette.
This BH6 will do good anyway because I won't o/c this computer anymore. I am getting a 1.4 GHz Athlon and sell this one to my father after putting it to nice clean and quiet state.
It is sad. I really loved that mobo (sniff)
I tried to reboot, set everything back to default, took out all the cards and drives, tested with different memory, PSU and display card (PCI), even cleared cmos by taking battery out - no help. I thought that voltage killed the tortured CPU (finally got it stable at 868MHz) and borrowed a celeron 400 from local shop. Didn't help. The shop keeper was kind enough to borrow me Abit BH6, slocket and TNT2 m64 for testing! With TNT2 machine showed some signs of life but not enough... Switched then to BH6 and there it was, alive again.
There are no seeable defects on motherboard, all capacitors etc. look just as before. I think that it was anyway too high power consumption that killed the board. It is rev 1.00 which, if remember right, doesn't have as strong 5V line as later revisions.
I think I'll buy this BH6 (cheap, used), although it doesn't seem to be as good as P2B-f was. It has low VIO (3.28V), no headers for thermistors or on-die diode and I had some problems with PCI slots. ISA slots, which I would need for old scanner controller card don't seem to work at all - reports bios checksum error (?!) and asks system diskette.
This BH6 will do good anyway because I won't o/c this computer anymore. I am getting a 1.4 GHz Athlon and sell this one to my father after putting it to nice clean and quiet state.
It is sad. I really loved that mobo (sniff)