LM6 and Celeron 400

[fuzzy fuzzy]

I'm trying to build a system with an LM6 motherboard and a Celeron 400
cpu. After
checking the Abit website, I know either one of the last two bios
upgrades will support
this cpu. However, here's my problem:

I installed the mb, cpu, floppy, #9 video card, keyboard, and 32mb
dimm. When I try
to boot, the screen that ID's the bios and tells me to hit DEL to enter
setup, says my
cpu is an mmx cpu at 98mhz, and where the RAM is supposed to be checked
is just
a blinking cursor. There is no RAM count, so hitting DEL does nothing
(AFAIK,
you're supposed to hit DEL during the count).

I know there's nothing wrong with the RAM, since I swapped it with my
brother's
RAM in his system. His system booted just fine using just my RAM, but
mine gave
me the same problem with his RAM.

I've tried 3 keyboards (my first thought was a defective ps/2 port, but
now my focus
is on the lack of a RAM check), no keyboard, different video cards, and
no floppy.
Having no RAM causes the system to produce long beeps, and having no cpu
gets
me nowhere.

I'm stumped. Shouldn't I be able to get into the bios even with a
severely under-
clocked cpu? Or do I have to install an older, slower cpu, update the
bios, then
install the Celeron 400?

Abba Computers, the people who sold me the mb at a recent computer show
in
Augusta, ME, is willing to resolve this to my satisfaction, but they
have no idea
why I can't boot properly. I contacted Abit as well, but I haven't
heard from them,
nor do I expect to. I checked this newsgroup, but if someone had a
similar problem,
I missed the relevant posts.

If no one can help me here, my next step is to take my system to a local
computer
shop and see if the motherboard is bad or if they can tell me what the
cause of the
problem is, and what to do about it.

If it's a bad mb, a simple swap will be quick and easy. If it's not,
I'm not sure what
my next step will be, yet.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[fu...@cybertours.com]

fuzzy fuzzy wrote:

For everyone that was stumped as I was:
Since the existing bios doesn't support Celerons above 266MHz, when it
polled my Celeron 400, it got confused, and
refused to continue the boot process. A better bios would have noticed that
the cpu was a Celeron, and at least ran it
at 266MHz until the bios was upgraded, but not this one.

With Abit's LM6, at least, if the installed cpu is faster than the bios has
support for, you can't boot at all. If you can't
boot, you can't upgrade the bios. Looks like I need a different
motherboard.