p2l97 celeron 600 Windows 2000 problem

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Bob Yu

I have an old, unused P2L97 motherboard with P2 at 233mhz. I got my
hands on a Celeron 600 Mhz FC-PGA with an adapter.

I left the voltage setting on the adapter to be automatic, and with
Win 95, everything works fine. With Win 2000, when the Windows graphic
screen comes up, the system freezes.

The only thing that I could possibly is set the voltage to 1.5V at
this point.

Any other suggestions?
 
Bob said:
I have an old, unused P2L97 motherboard with P2 at 233mhz. I got my
hands on a Celeron 600 Mhz FC-PGA with an adapter.

I left the voltage setting on the adapter to be automatic, and with
Win 95, everything works fine. With Win 2000, when the Windows graphic
screen comes up, the system freezes.
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IIRC fcpga celerons on p2l97 boards had problems with agp. You could try
disabling agp gart (I think using the lowest possible aperture value
in the bios did that), or maybe you need a pci graphic card.
The only thing that I could possibly is set the voltage to 1.5V at
this point.
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I'm surpised this works at auto. Are you sure you get the correct
voltage? I would expect it to not boot at all at auto and the 1.5V
setting, due to the voltage regulator which probably can't supply
anything below 1.8V (at least I'd be surpised to find a voltage
regulator which goes down to lower values on such an old board).
You didn't mention what adapter you're using neither. There are tons of
crappy ones around which don't support fcpga cpus properly, and in fact
it's difficult to find one nowadays which does support them properly...

Roland
 
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