Help!! P2V / iWill Slocket II / Celly 950 won't POST

[Willem]

Hi All,

I recently upgraded my Asus P2B rev. 1.02 with a iWill Slocket II and a
Celeron 950. Works like a charm.
Settings iWill Slocket II:
1,8 Vcore, 100 Mhz, FCPGA, single processor
Settings Asus P2B:
100 Mhz, 8.0x multiplier (irrelevant, processor has multiplier onboard)

So I decided to do the same with my Asus P2V rev 1.12, which is exactly the
same motherboard, only with a Via chipset VT82C693 (Apollo Pro Plus) instead
of a 440BX. Machine will not POST.
I read somewhere that the VIa chipset is a pin-for-pin replacement of the
440BX, so it should work, I would say.

I am running latest BIOS 1004 beta 5.
I have put the slocket and processor that worked in the P2B into the P2V.
P2V still not booting.
The exact same combination of slocket/CPU that was in the P2V I have put in
the P2B. Works like a song! So I know that both Slocket and processor are
OK. I have also doublechecked the memory. 320 Mb of PC133.

Does anyone have a clue why this setup will not boot with the same settings
that work for the 440BX?

Thanks for your help,

Willem

Asus P2B / iWill Slocket II / Celeron 950. 256 Mb
Asus P5A-B / K6-2 550 / 256 Mb
Asus P2V / Celeron 466 / 320 Mb
Asus A7V / AMD Duron 800 / 256 Mb

[Nick Hogg]

p2v does not support coppermine cpu. a voltage issue, i would think.

"Willem" <will...@spam.wanadoo.nl> wrote in message
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[Cole Clark]

Not all slotkets (or motherboards) are created equal!!! I know two slotkets
that work very well with my Via chipset - Asus S370-DF and Abit Slotket III.
Both are "smart" slotkets, with voltage, sideband, and coppermine jumpers.
Good Luck.
CC

"Willem" <will...@spam.wanadoo.nl> wrote in message
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[Willem]

Yep, Slocket II is smart too, but incompatible with the VIA chipset, it
seems :-(

http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/slocketii/

Thanks,

Willem

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[Alexander Fong]

On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Willem wrote:

> "Cole Clark" <co...@shaw.ca> schreef in bericht
> news:i3Lp8.398728$A44.23...@news2.calgary.shaw.ca...
> > Not all slotkets (or motherboards) are created equal!!! I know two
> > slotkets that work very well with my Via chipset - Asus S370-DF and
> > Abit Slotket III. Both are "smart" slotkets, with voltage, sideband,
> > and coppermine jumpers.

> Yep, Slocket II is smart too, but incompatible with the VIA chipset, it
> seems :-(

Not true. SlotketII *does* work with VIA chipsets. It was a big thing
back then.

The reason why it doesn't work on his P2V is because a P2V is an
antiquidated piece of junk! =)

BUT, try bumping the voltage. My Abit BX6r2 with an C2-566 wouldn't POST
after the first time after a CPU change unless the voltage was 1.7V
instead of 1.65V. It would start, but then die on the reset and any
subsequent power on. It might be that the regulator on the P2V doesn't
like lower voltages.

Anyway, on a side note, just because P2V looks the same as a P2B does not
mean it is the same internally (can be using cheaper parts, might not have
some of the design refinements, etc). VIA boards were typically budget,
so it wouldn't be surprising if even Asus went super-cheap on it (I recall
the price difference between Intel and VIA boards by the same manufacturer
at the time was about 50-70$ CDN, pretty steep). The Asus site explicitly
says absolutely no support (BIOS and hw) for Coppermines for P2V:

http://www.asus.com/inside/Techref/images/tr19.jpg

If the voltage regulator doesn't go that low, then it typically crashes.
If you don't have BIOS support, you're also kinda stuck (sometimes).

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[Willem]

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Yep. Thanks for your spot-on reflections, Alexander. After your comments,
I扉e decided to ditch the P2V project, especially since I found a new P2B-DS
for almost nothing! Since I was running the P2V in my home network server
(hobby has become a job; if one of my projects goes wrong, the whole family
is in distress, because they cannot use IE, read mail, chat, play online
games, download MP3愀 etc.), I am a very happy person with the P2B-DS. It
is happily purring along with, yes, the Celeron 950 and iWill Slocket II
:-), like the other P2B in my network. Might even try dual Celly 950愀
later.

Thanks all, for the help.