Hi,
I bought a 950Mhz celeron a few months back thinking I could use it in my
gigabyte GA-6OX board, but I was wrong.
I'm after a board supporting PPGA celerons.. The specs for the chip can be
found here:
http://processorfinder.intel.com/scripts/details.asp?sSpec=SL5V2
It's a typical Coppermine Celeron, also known as a FC-PGA,
even though intel calls it a PPGA. It IS a PPGA, but FC-PGA
supercedes that description by providing futher detail that
it's a (F)lip (C)hip too.
Your motherboard should be able to run that CPU.
"Something" is wrong, but I couldn't guess whether it's a
motherboad, CPU, power, etc, etc problem based on info
provided.
I've checked ebay many times over, but everything I see mentions FC-PGA and
66Mhz FSB, with no mention of PPGA.
The Celerons "often" called PPGA but NOT FC-PGA were the
early mendocino celerons from 300-533MHz. They were
distinctive with brown fiber carrier (pins visable though
the top of the carrier) and nickel-plated copper heat
spreader on top, looked a lot like a Pentium (1) MMX, but
with more pins on the bottom. Those all used 66MHz FSB,
but so did the later FC-PGA Coppermines, from 533MHz (there
was overlap in 500-533MHz range) to 766MHz, then first
Coppermine with 100MHz FSB was 800MHz model.
AFAIK, ALL 815 chipset boards should run a Coppermine 850
chip. Are you certain the jumpers are correct? That either
or both parts work? That there isn't something else you've
overlooked?
The primary limitation of the 815 boards was that they could
only support 512MB of memory. Otherwise they were a fine
choice. Another alternative for Celeron 950 would be any
board with Via Apollo Pro 133(T) chipset, also known as 694X
or 694T ("T" means it also supports Tualatin but not the
Mendocino 300-533 Celerons).
If your board is similar to the one in this pic,
http://www.ixbt.com/mainboard/images/roundup-jun2k1/gigabyte-ga-6oxe-1.jpg
there's a FSB jumper below the IDE ports that might need
changed. Don't know about the other jumpers but that (and
other Gigabyte boards of that era) also used
<cough>potentially</cough> defective capacitors labeled as
(G-)Luxon. If any caps look vented that's probably the
problem... though you don't mention if the board was new or
used, tested working or not beyond with the Celery 950.
Otherwise, there were heaps of boards back in the coppermine
era, partly why i mentioned the two/three chipsets, as it's
not too easy to provide a comprehensive list of them all,
but particularly the MSI and Asus from that era were good,
as the Gigabyte and Abit were having a few capacitor issues
during that period... otherwise they'd have been good
choices too. 810(E?) chipset boards should work, IIRC, but
there's no good reason to choose one today, and 820 if you
have some spare rambus memory lying around, but I altogether
avoided 820 boards and have no advice on those. Given a
choice I'd go with a Via Apollo Pro 133T (694T) based board,
because they had decent performance and the following
features beyond what some others had:
- ATA100
- AGP4X Universal Slot
- Support 512MB PC100/133 per slot 2(?)GB total.
- Most likely to have bios update for larger HDD support.
- Most likely to have bios update for Win2k/XP power
management support.
ebay is a gamble on used parts like these, you might find
something at a surplus-computer-parts type site, though i
have no idea who'd have something like that these days.
