ABIT VA6

[specialksl]

I just setup an ABIT VA6 with a P3 450 overclocked to 504 for my son. The question/problem is, when it boots up it shows a P2. Anybody know why. I have the latest BIOS (TN I think). I tried to flash to version UU and it trashed the BIOS so bad I had to do a "hot swap" to re-flash it. Why is it showing up as a P2 instead of a P3?

 

[gdog]

Maybe cos 504mhz isnt recognized as a p3 speed?? so its tryin to categorize it.Not really sure but thats my guess.Dont worry about it tho, the performance will be the same.

 

[dimmreaper]

Is it in a Slocket??

If so it may have a jumper to set it to FCPGA, or something. If it's on a slocket, check and double check the jumpers. It may be in a slocket that doesn't properly suppor FCPGA. I don't know, I'm mostly blowing smoke on this one, I'm not much of an Intel expert.

If it's a Slot based CPU, I'm stumped.

 

[Tim-]

CPU identification is done by the bios interrogating the cpu. Sounds like the bios may have a bug. You might want to email Abit, they may be aware of it... Perhaps there aren't many people using the PIII-450 with it and they aren't aware- YET.

 

[specialksl]

It is a Slot 1 CPU.

 

[dimmreaper]

specialksl (Jan 11, 2001 07:23 p.m.):
It is a Slot 1 CPU.

Then it has to be a BIOS problem.