AZZA PT-6IFB issues

[rmay635703]

I have an old AZZA PT-6IFB PII motherboard that supports PII 233-333 according to the manual. It also says supports voltages of 1.8v and up.

I only have a PII 350Mhz processor and a Celeron 400Mhz processor on a sloket.

The PII 350 should work as the board supports the voltage yet when I try it locks up at post even before it gets to the memory count (I would think I could run the 350mhz at 233mhz using the 66 bus)

Anyway the celeron doesn't even post and is a base 66 chip and should also work as its a 2v unit.

Is it possible to get the celeron running or do you think my board might have damage.
Or might a bios update help? (if there is one)

Thanx
Ryan

[Rainbow]

It's possible that the BIOS locks up because it's too old and does not include support for the new CPUs. What's the BIOS ID string (including date)?

[rmay635703]

It locks before the date is shown, the video bios pops up and then about 2 lines of the regular bios show CPU = then it locks without the bottom half showing.

I will have to see if anyone locally has a PII 233 cpu so I can test this board and possibly flash the bios chip.

There is an EPROM burner here on campus if the bios chip is the correct type and I can find a bios I could try burning a new one to it and see if that resolves the issue.

As usual it is also possible that I bought a dud board.

Sincerely
Ryan

[Denniss]

First try to clear CMOS - maybe some wrong settings causing the lock-ups .