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Larry

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Apr 28, 2002, 5:04:35 PM4/28/02
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I have a GA-6BA Motherboard with an i440BX Chipset. I am running a PII-350
with 256M RAM at 100 MHz Bus Speed. The BIOS is dated 01/28/99. I would like
to upgrade my processor and was wondering how fast a processor can I use and
would I have to flash a new BIOS?

Larry


KURIAKI

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Apr 29, 2002, 2:08:05 AM4/29/02
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Supports up to Pentium III & Celeron 1.1G CPU (only FC-PGA CPU & PCB
revision : 3.0 or above)
http://ftp.gigabyte.com.tw/support/temp/6ba_f1.zip

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Klaus Neubauer

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Apr 29, 2002, 2:34:37 AM4/29/02
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Hi Larry,
yes you have to flsh the bios to the newest version.
http://www.giga-byte.com/support/sw_beta.htm
If you have board rev 3.x you can use PIII (Coppermine) up to 1Ghz (100Mhz fsb S1)
If not try this:
http://www.madex.com
(Slot1 upgrade Kits)
I have running a GA6BA Rev 3.0 with a PIII 1Ghz 100FSB Slot1 and two
older versions with a Madex adapter and Celeron 1.1Ghz 100FSB.
But it is very difficult to get PIII 100FSB Slot1, try it.

with greetings
Klaus

Josey

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Apr 29, 2002, 1:26:46 PM4/29/02
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Larry,

As other posters have said you need the newer bios.

I have a GA-6BA rev 3.0 board (rev number at rear left of board in corner by
PCI slots).

Just upgraded to a 1Ghz Celeron Retail FC-PGA chip on a GA-GR7+ slocket
coket 370 to slot-1 adpater (look for auctions on ebay). Works fine in my
PC. Stable for a month or so. Watch the heatsink will fit in the case ok.
I'm using an ATX PSU.

FC-PGA is a lot easier to find than Slot-1 1Ghz (and a lot cheaper in the
uk).

Be carefull to buy a Celeron with a Coppermine core not a later Tualatin.
The part no on my Celeron is BX80526F1000128 SL5XQ.

The chips that definetly won't work are also refered to as FC-PGA2. For
example BX80530F1000256 is the Tualatin core version of my process the will
NOT work. the fastest Coppermine made was 1.1.Ghz.

Hope this helps. Crosss check what I've said to make sure.

If you have an older board (<3.0) I don't know what you can/can't do.
Hopefully some has/will tell you about this.

Later.

Jc.

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