Abit BE6-2 successfully recaped

[frenchkiss]

Hi, one more Abit BE6-2 saved by a French amateur.

New capacitors are from badcaps.net ! Because in France it's impossible to find 8mm 105° quality caps.

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The story on my personnal webpage : http://jonathan.dupre.free.fr/articl...hp?id=28&cat=9

Thanks again.

[bigbeark]

Re: Abit BE6-2 successfully recaped

Nice job!

You can probably go to 1000Mhz CPU, hard to find in 100FSB though.
Lots of the 133FSB 1000s around, but that results in only 750Mhz underclock.
Easy to find Celeron 950s in socket 370 to put in a Slotket adapter. There is a Celeron 1100 but you'd need the latest BIOS to get the higher multipliers.

I see the Abit site is miraculously still up, so you can presumably download manuals & BIOS updates. These boards will run ECC server memory too.

Enjoy!

[mockingbird]

Re: Abit BE6-2 successfully recaped

That's a classic board. I had a BF6 which was essentially a BE6-II without the onboard RAID. Best BX board I ever used.

[frenchkiss]

Re: Abit BE6-2 successfully recaped

Yeah,

for the moment the board runs fine with an Intel P!!! 550e (so FSB 100 - coppermine core) processor overclocked at 666mhz (with 121 mhz FSB and IOQD at 8).

The system is unstable with 133 mhz FSB and IOQD on 8, but stable with '1' value but in this case memory performance is very low.

I will purchase a slotket adapter later...

[Uranium-235]

Re: Abit BE6-2 successfully recaped

why would somebody spend money on caps for something that old? unless its a server class board I don't see the purpose

edit: wait a see a highpoint chip, it might just be a server class board

[mockingbird]

Re: Abit BE6-2 successfully recaped

I would spend money on the BF6 because I had an attachement to that platform. Otherwise, I agree.

[Topcat]

Re: Abit BE6-2 successfully recaped

People spend money constantly on stuff older than that. For example, a soyo 5th5, which is a socket 7 EDO ram board....with 166 P-classics and 233MMX's. I see them regularly. They're out of controllers for CNC machines and use an ISA slot for a proprietary card that runs the machine. Irreplaceable today, so people fix them.

if there's a use for the board, its worth fixing.

[POM_MJ]

Re: Abit BE6-2 successfully recaped

... if there's a use for the board, its worth fixing.

+1000...

[Pyr0Beast]

Re: Abit BE6-2 successfully recaped

I recapped my BH6 with polys. Also had to remove some big caps because CPU cartrige was hitting caps and wouldn't seat properly.
Nb heatsink is from Nforce2 mainboard, hehe

Also cleaned mainboard with acid due to oxidation from condensation. And it still works.



IOQD setting of 8 is more stable here than 1 ! It is insane.


I run my NB at around 1.75-1.8V instead of 1.5V and that gives me max fsb in range of 180MHz
(Pentium 3 800MHz 133MHz coppermine, totally stable at 170MHz!)
(Still having some boot issues with such high frequencies.)

I'd stick in a coppermine 1.0GHz into a slotket with a simple wire mod and run it at 133MHz or higer. 150MHz is definitely possible with this board. Just a little fiddling with ram is needed.

Also I/O voltage affects cpu cache ! Cpu goes higher by like 50MHz, when I set it from 3.5 to 3.9V

This was max. clock run on P3 550


These chips are really poor overclockers due to bad cache. Coppermines OC like crazy tho.

Add some grease over BX chipset if you plan to run it at high FSB's, it gets quite warm.

I also loved this photo;
http://jonathan.dupre.free.fr/images...es/falcon2.jpg
ISA Sound Blaster is a Beauty !!

[frenchkiss]

Re: Abit BE6-2 successfully recaped

Uranium-235 : I spend money because I'am simply very nostalgic, when I was a teen I had the Abit ZM6 and Celeron 400, and I adored Abit layout boards at the time, but the price was high. Today it's very nice for me to have such old hardware for retrieve in mind the "good time". It's not a server class board, but simply an advanced desktop mainbord for poorrer IT amateur. HPT366 has not really SCSI performances !

Pyr0Beast : The photo shows my "Falcon" SERVER powered by Corsair CX400 80PLUS, so the Sound Blaster 64 Gold is working but not really often used ;-). On PCI ports 2 Ethernet cards (1x100Mbs and 1x Gigabit). I will retry to overclock much the processor, in fact I have just rised up the voltage to 1.70 instead of the initial 1.65v, I think it still a little too low. But your 2.4v adjustment isn't dangerous ?

[Pyr0Beast]

Re: Abit BE6-2 successfully recaped

Hehehe. Depends on the type of CPU. I run coppermines (P3 S370) on 2.2V with air, highest was 3.0V at which the cpu died due to bad thermal contact (Stock voltage was 1.7V, hehe)
Old slot 1 CPUs (externall cache) were fine with 2.4-2.5V. Above, there isn't any benefit with frequency, just more heat.

So ... You still have LOTS of area for raising voltage

[frenchkiss]

Re: Abit BE6-2 successfully recaped

I am testing.... at 1.80v, idem, the server halts SOMETIMES at POST with "BIOS checksum error" message after a simple "reset " (reboot by windows menu). With FSB at 133 and IOQD at 8. If When I select '1', i have not this message.

Like this : http://www.birdjanitor.com/_images/k_bootblock.jpg

After powering it down and up, it runs windows xp sp3 very fine.

EDIT : my CPU is coppermine

[frenchkiss]

Re: Abit BE6-2 successfully recaped

Known problem : http://discussions.hardwarecentral.c...d.php?t=118488

[Pyr0Beast]

Re: Abit BE6-2 successfully recaped

1.8V ain't nothing for these chips. 2.0V would be completely safe.

66MHz will surely hit 100MHz FSB and 100MHz chips will go over 133MHz.

I don't have any issues regarding bootblock under 150MHz

If there are - Hard power off when machine freezes from overclocking (otherwise machine reboots with poor settings and crashes cmos), hold reset and power on. Hold reset for 3 seconds and then release.

Boot with no problem (Even at 180MHz)

Might be good fiddling with Bios shadow or something similar. It seems to occur more when there are memory related issues.

Setting IO voltage at stock 3.5V might also help.
Or raising CPU voltage.

For higher FSB go to your memory settings and look at fist setting on top of the page. Add clock delay or something like that )
Use CPUz to check CPU frequency
And Set FSB to overclock from windows

http://www13.plala.or.jp/setfsb/

Clock Generator is
RTM520-39D

You need to download aplication and put some other files in it (written on the page), otherwise, windows frezzes when you change FSB.