I would like some comments on setting up my BP6, once again, in a new guise.
The world seems to conspire to keep a BP6 on my desktop, would you believe?
So,,,, i give in. But not without tinkering now the cover is of.
The story (scroll down if bored):
The trusty old Mk.I BP6'er had gotten a bit quirky lately, so i had myself a shopping spree on Ebay. Got a nice computer out of that, indeed. Unfortunately the computer geek in residence (Wifey) eyed the freshly assembled wonder and claimed it. Her own PC not being able to edit flashgames on one monitor and show Star Trek DivX's on the other, without jitter....
In turn, the twins (5 years) claimed her PC, because "it has many games"!
So what does a poor man do: He makes do! Fresh install on an an empty harddisk and start diagnosing the BP6'er.
Result: It was indeed the hardware. Lockups on heavy disc usage and on heavy processor load. Install a Mobo Monitor and get a *YIKES* experience: Idle processor temps at 54C(129F) and 56C(132F) respectively, a wonder it still ran at all.
Time to take it all apart. Result: Two obviously leaking caps and a few more suspects. It must have been warm in there.
Fortunately i was long overdue with a visit to my old job at EWG-electronics. Result: Nice to see you, how have you been doing, sure there's an empty work table right overthere.... YaY!!
To keep it short; remove all electrolytes, a trip through the circuit board washer, a heavy spray of flux, a trip through the IR tunnel, reinstall fresh new electrolytes, finally a wash and the board looks new again. Including plenty of coffee, shoptalk, BBQ invites and so forth, it took me about 5 hours.
Back home i installed the BP6'er in original configuration, allthough with much better CPU heatsinks; result:
![Image](http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-12/1115182/MBM5-2007-07-05.gif)
Much better! Suffice to say that the board is now running stable. Except that difference in core voltage is "interesting, to say the least. I'll look into that when i have posted this.
SO:
For now i have, no money, but: A nice set of fv524rx466 processors (SF3FL). To go with those and the rest of the old hardware i was also given a new 350W mil-spec powersupply.
Now i need advice on setting up the BIOS.
All the best,
Basil
PS: Here is a system info from: http://www.powerleap.com/
Model : Abit BP6 <-- Well whaddaya know
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Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Processor
Number Of Processors : 2
Type : Intel Celeron 300 MHz
Package : Socket 370 PPGA
Manufacturer Codename : Mendocino
Clock Speed : 451 MHz
Clock Multiplier : 4.5
Front Side Bus (FSB) Speed : 67 MHz
L2 Cache Size : 128 KBytes Stepping : mB0
Trace Width : 0.25
Microcode : 3h
Instruction Sets : MMX
Motherboard
Manufacturer : ABIT
Model : i440BX-W83977 (BP6) Rev. v1.0 ~
CPU Slot/Socket Type : Socket 370 PPGA
Chipset Vendor : Intel i440BX/ZX Rev. C1
Bios Manufacturer : Award Software International, Inc.
Bios Version : 4.51 PG
Graphics
Brand : LeadTek
Model : nVidia AGP Riva TNT2 M64
AGP Speed : 2x
Monitor : StudioWorks 995E
GPU Core: NV5M64
GPU Speed : 125 MHz
Storage
Hard Drive 1 : Maxtor 4 D080H4
Size : 78.17 GB
Buffer : 2048 KB
Hard Drive 2 : Maxtor 6 B160P0
Size : 131.07 GB
Optical Drive 1 : ASUS CRW-5232AS
Type : CD-RW drive
Optical Drive 2 : ASUS DRW-1608P3S
Type : DVD-RW drive
Current CD Read Speed : 62X ( Max 62X )
Current CD Write Speed : 94X ( Max 7X )
Memory
Total RAM Installed : 768MB
Type : SDRAM Not Available PC133
Used RAM Slots: 3 of 3
Memory Bus Frequency: 100 MHz
Memory Timings: 3.0-3-3
Slot 1: Micron Technology 256MB PC133 SDRAM 16LSDT3264AG-133B1
Slot 2: Micron Technology 256MB PC133 SDRAM 16LSDT3264AG-133B1
Slot 3: Micron Technology 256MB PC133 SDRAM 16LSDT3264AG-133B1
Accessories
USB Version : 2.0