Abit BE6-ll questions/advise

[midaryl]

I see quite a few people here with this board, maybe someone can give me a bit of help/advise. The manual says it supports up to P3-700. I'm trying to not get raped on a P3-700 flip chip, got one ordered, ( backordered, retail box). I'm a bit skeptical of OEM, have they proven to not overclock? If I used User define in the Softmenu lll, can i go to a higher cpu than the 700, say to a P3 933? Also i'm not sure on the BIOS (BE6-11-OK V1.1 010042993-081KE BE62T JH089533) this is on a tag, on the ISA slot. Do I need an update? At present P2-450, @ 600

 

[bdf24]

You will have to get a Slotket to run a flip-chip on that board. The BE6-II is a Slot 1 or SECC2 not a fcpga which is what a flip-chip is.

Also the BE6-II's are BX chipsets. Which some people believe are dead. But not me (well, not untill I can afford a new board. hehehe). BX boards lack the extra AGP multiplier, as well as 4x AGP. Alot of people around here seem to like the newer 815 chipsets made by Abit and Asus.

 

[DocClock aka MadClocker]

It sounds like you have a BE62 ver1, and it probably would help to get a bios update.
Also when you get a slot converter, make sure that it is compatible with "coppermine" cpu's

 

[LimeyGreg]

You need to flash the bios to the latest rev, go to Abit's site and download the flash utility and the zipped bin file. Read the instructions and follow them to the letter. This will give you the ability to run to 1G with standard settings. If you want to overclock (and who wouldn't ???) you need to use the "user define" mode. At 133 fsb or higher set PCI divider to 1/4 and AGP to 2/3 and in-order depth queue to 8. Vi/o should be at 3.5v (set by new bios from 3.3) and Vcore set to whatever you need to make cpu stable - provided you have adequate cooling.

Read the beginers guides, reviews & tips on the home page. If you have any further questions feel free to ask here or e-mail me.

BE6-2 v1, P3550E @ 850. Original Panaflow ORB. 256 meg Tonicom ram. Promise ata66 hacked to raid with 2 Quantum 7200rpm drives striped. Asus V7700 G2. Hercules Game Theater XP. Intel Pro ISA 10/100 NIC.

 

[Darius]

BX boards lack the extra AGP multiplier, as well as 4x AGP. Alot of people around here seem to like the newer 815 chipsets made by Abit and Asus.

I'm relatively new to this stuff, I've been absorbing knowledge eversince I've started to have problems with my computer freezing with games, and me getting a system sound like "BEEEEEE"

Now I have an ABIT BE6v2 mobo, and an ATI RADEON 64mb DDR AGP vid card. Now, you just stated above that the BX bpoards dont support agp multipliers... or 4x multiplers.. could that be my problem with freezing games?

 

[Darius]

am I asking these questions in the right places?!?

 

[DaveB]

I'm relatively new to this stuff, I've been absorbing knowledge eversince I've started to have problems with my computer freezing with games, and me getting a system sound like "BEEEEEE"

Now I have an ABIT BE6v2 mobo, and an ATI RADEON 64mb DDR AGP vid card. Now, you just stated above that the BX bpoards dont support agp multipliers... or 4x multiplers.. could that be my problem with freezing games?

Actually, enabling AGP 4X is likely to cause the kinds problems you're experiencing. It sure won't fix them. Your mobo runs AGP 2X which is just as fast, and much more stable. So, your lack of an AGP 4X setting is not a problem.

You don't say what FSB you're running at. I've run fine with the FSB at 150 MHz (100 MHz AGP bus) on my BX board with a GeForce2 GTS card. I've read Radeons are good at least to 90 MHz or so (133 MHz FSB). Please give more info on your system setup.

 

[midaryl]

Darius (Apr 09, 2001 11:24 a.m.):
am I asking these questions in the right places?!?

Darius, your in the right area, or you may want to ask it in the General Area. And you may want to start a new question of your own, i'm a bit green also, but i don't think it is your video card giving you your problem, got another video card you can install and try? Have you been playing in the BIOS?