Re: Asus P2B and 370 to slot 1 slocket.....Question

The explanation is correct, but while all 1.12 revision motherboards
have the "BCB" voltage regulator that can go down to 1.5 volts, most of
the 1.10 revision motherboards have it also. Otherwise, as Peacekeeper
stated, with any earlier motherboards, or any 1.10 boards that don't
have the "BCB" regulator, you have to use a slocket adapter that will
allow the VID lines to be overridden, forcing the motherboard to 1.8 volts.

Update the BIOS to AT LEAST 1012 BEFORE you do anything else (1014 Beta
3 is the latest BIOS).


Peacekeeper wrote:

> Michael hit the nail of the head the earlier models of the P2b ie before
> 1.012 rev will not run the cpu at its required 1.7v or thereabouts . The
> "fix" is to use a scocket converter that will allow the setting of the cpu
> voltage on teh adapter to 1.8v. this runs the cpu at a tad over volts but
> will get you booted and have a minimal reduction on the cpu life.Asus solket
> s370-dl or -133 works as well.
>
> Make sure you have a recent bios as well
>
> "Michael W Ryder" <mwryder@_earthlink_.net> wrote in message
> news:wvkib.8153$ ink.net...
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>>Hallo wrote:
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>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>One of my PC's has a P2B Asus mainboard, slot 1 and a Pentium 550 Mhz is
>>>doing well. Of course not the most fast machine today, but as I have
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> other
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>>>faster ones, this is just for standard CD burning work.
>>>
>>>I bought an Iwill Slocket converter, as I still have a PIII 850 Mhz
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> FC-PGA
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>>>processor in 'stock'.
>>>It's a 850/256/1,75 V/100 FC-PGA.
>>>I did put the jumpers in the right way on the Iwill slocket, but after I
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> put
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>>>the device in my PC, nothing happened.
>>>Strange, because this Iwill slocket is one of the best for this job,
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> making
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>>>a faster processor possible in a slot 1 mainboard.
>>>Is there someone with a solution how to solve this? Yes, of course I
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> changed
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>>>also the jumpersetting on the mainboard. So it must be someting strange
>
> or
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>>>it's not compatible......
>>>Ron
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Did you set the voltage to 1.8 volts? I am not certain if this card
>>supports that option but a lot of the P2 series of boards will not
>>supply a CPU voltage below 1.8 volts. Some of the later versions of the
>>boards did, but not the earlier versions.
>>
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