Trouble Upgrading AX6BC from P2 to P3

Hi,

Can anyone offer any advice or thoughts:

I have an AX6BC motherboard (i440BX chipset, BIOS ver. 2.59) that was
running a P2 (SL28R) at 66Mhz fsb/233Mhz core. I'm trying to get it to run
a P3 (SL365) at 100Mhz fsb/500Mhz core.

When I plug in the P3 and start it up, the post goes ok, the HDD starts to
chatter, but then the boot locks just after the first Win98 screen comes up.

If I change the CMOS to boot off the CD ROM, it never even gets the system
started (just get a blank screen).

I've tried resetting the CMOS (jp #14), and I've checked that the video AGP
is set for auto (should auto detect the 100 Mhz system bus). I've got PC100
and PC133 SDRAM in the sockets (196 Meg total).

When I put the old P2 back in, it starts right up! It seems like changing
to the 100Mhz bus is causing some kind of problem, but I can't figure out
what. It's particularly frustrating considering how fast I've read that
some of you are running this board!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

"j328driver" <papesh DeleteThis @ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:behjm9$m9m$1@slb9.atl.mindspring.net...
 > Hi,
 >
 > Can anyone offer any advice or thoughts:
 >
 > I have an AX6BC motherboard (i440BX chipset, BIOS ver. 2.59) that was
 > running a P2 (SL28R) at 66Mhz fsb/233Mhz core. I'm trying to get it to
run
 > a P3 (SL365) at 100Mhz fsb/500Mhz core.
 >
 > When I plug in the P3 and start it up, the post goes ok, the HDD starts to
 > chatter, but then the boot locks just after the first Win98 screen comes
up.
 >
 > If I change the CMOS to boot off the CD ROM, it never even gets the system
 > started (just get a blank screen).
 >
 > I've tried resetting the CMOS (jp #14), and I've checked that the video
AGP
 > is set for auto (should auto detect the 100 Mhz system bus). I've got
PC100
 > and PC133 SDRAM in the sockets (196 Meg total).
 >
 > When I put the old P2 back in, it starts right up! It seems like changing
 > to the 100Mhz bus is causing some kind of problem, but I can't figure out
 > what. It's particularly frustrating considering how fast I've read that
 > some of you are running this board!
 >
 > Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
 >
 >

Sounds like you may need a BIOS update. There are a lot of BIOS revisions
for that board, and it looks like you need at least version 1.10 to run the
500 P3. You can get the BIOS update here:

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://tinyurl.com/gg91" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/gg91</a>

Chris<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->