Gigabyte 6BA with 800MHz Celleron

[Jens Busch]

Hi all,

I am running a Gigabyte Mainboard GA 6BA Rev. 2.4, BIOS 1Fg with a
Celeron 800 connected via Iwill Slocket Rev. 1.1. sometimes the
processor don´t start (no beeps, no screen). When I put the CPU incl.
Slocket on another Mainboard everything works fine. Also if I put my old
Celeron 300A on my Mainboard everything is ok. Are there any
restrictions regarding the revisionlevel of my GA 6BA.

Thanks
Jens

[Paul Rovero]

If you look at the description on Gigabyte's site for the f1g BIOS you
should see that it adds "Support Celeron 533A to 700 CPU(FC-PGA). (PCB
revision : 3.0 or above)" Seeing as how this support is not added to your
revision of the board AND you have exceeded it anyway, it is not entirely
surprising that it does not work well.

--
Paul Rovero
"Jens Busch" <jens....@freenet.de> wrote in message
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[Bob Fryer]

Jens,

As Paul points out, the board doesnt support the 800Mhz Celeron CPU. This is
quite clear from Gigabyte's site.

Your best bet, is to change your Front Side bus speed and change the
multplier switches to the setting for a 700Mhz Celeron. Your manual clearly
indicates how to do this. Just means that you lose 100Mhz of what your CPU
is capable of, but it it will be more than twice as quick as the 300Mhz
Celeron.

Your current FSB is probably set to auto, which is not what you want when
you are installing the 800Mhz CPU. The FSB should be set to what the Celeron
is marked with, and then use the appropriate multiplier.

Regards

Bob

"Paul Rovero" <patthe...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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[Bob Fryer]

Mupy Mup,

Thank you for the correction and I stand corrected.

Therefore the solution for this issue is now very simple. The board should
be re-used elsewhere and replaced with a current board. It has had a good
life, but it now has its limits as we are now very aware.

Regards

Bob

"MUPY MUP" <je...@ure.cas.cz> wrote in message
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> Since the multipliers are locked, setting on MoBo doesn't mater.
> There is no choise even for FSB except 66MHz.
> 66x8=528 that is rather bad.

> MUPY MUP