ABIT BD7II

Danger Mouse · Oct 7, 2003

Hi folks,a newbie here.
I currently have an Abit BD7II M/B running a P41.6Ghz CPU. I've found i can only run with FSB at 100MHz. I've tried 133MHz but it won't boot. Is this a limitation of the CPU? Would a P4 2.66GHz[533MHz] work on this system? I'm asking because that would mean setting FSB to 133,which at present i can't do.

Thanks for any info..[be gentle!]

Nick Dalton · Oct 7, 2003

Silly question but is your RAM up to it??

I have the same board and chip and had it running higher that that with these settings....

CPU settings in your BIOS -

Ext Clock cpu/agp/pci: 133/66/33 (I have mine at 133/88/44) pci bus 33 Multiplier x16 H/W strap HIGH cpu:dram by spd

in you advanced chipset section -

dram timing
cas latency: 2
precharge delay 5
ras to cas 2
ras precharge 2

I think I'm right in saying the board will support the 533FSB chip (I hope so I've just bought one!) according to their website it will support up to
2.8GHz chip at 533FSB.

Check your ram and try those settings

8)

"Danger Mouse" wrote:

| Hi folks,a newbie here.
| I currently have an Abit BD7II M/B running a P41.6Ghz CPU. | I've found i can only run with FSB at 100MHz. | I've tried 133MHz but it won't boot. | Is this a limitation of the CPU? | Would a P4 2.66GHz[533MHz] work on this system? | I'm asking because that would mean setting FSB to 133,which at present i | can't do. | | Thanks for any info..[be gentle!] | |

Danger Mouse · Oct 7, 2003

Thanks,will try them now!

"Nick Dalton" wrote:

Silly question but is your RAM up to it??

I have the same board and chip and had it running higher that that with these settings....

CPU settings in your BIOS -

Ext Clock cpu/agp/pci: 133/66/33 (I have mine at 133/88/44) pci bus 33 Multiplier x16 H/W strap HIGH cpu:dram by spd ...

Danger Mouse · Oct 7, 2003

"Nick Dalton" wrote:

Silly question but is your RAM up to it??

I have the same board and chip and had it running higher that that with these settings....

CPU settings in your BIOS -

Ext Clock cpu/agp/pci: 133/66/33 (I have mine at 133/88/44) pci bus 33
Multiplier x16
... hope so I've just bought one!) according to their website it will support up to 2.8GHz chip at 533FSB.

Check your ram and try those settings

8)

Still a no go i'm afraid,even with those settings.The monitor just stays

in sleep mode.Although the PC itself does what it normally does. I can overclock the agp/pci with no probs. It's just the FSB.

Homie · Oct 8, 2003

I have a P4 2.4/533in my BD7 II .....runs perfect.

Nick Dalton · Oct 8, 2003

It sounds like the ram to me.......

Are you sure its man enough for the job?

Danger Mouse · Oct 8, 2003

"Nick Dalton" wrote:

It sounds like the ram to me.......

Are you sure its man enough for the job?

The ram is DDR PC2100.
The message on boot is Host/Dram 100/133
(doesn't mean much to me though!)

Nick Dalton · Oct 8, 2003

Danger Mouse · Oct 9, 2003

"Nick Dalton" wrote:

Mine reads Host/DRAM 133/133 on startup so somethin is up somewhere............

Hehe!

Thanks for helping.
I'm just not sure about going out,buying a CPU to find it won't run. I could always plump for a 2.4 with a 400Mhz FSB!

Oh well!