Pentium 3 not correctly detected!

[m00ba]

Hello,
I have a big problem with my
02/23/1999-692-596-8671-2A6LGB09C-00 (Biostar - M6VBE) motherboard. I used a Pentium 3 500mhz, and upgraded to a Pentium 3 1ghz. However, the Mainboard detects the processor, but only with "750E Mhz"!. What can I do? I need help ;_;!

//Edit:
My Chipset is the 963 one, not the 962, thought it's shown in the bios boot screen.

m00ba

[edwin]

Did you check the actual chip on your motherboard? If you have the M6VBE non-A it might be limited to 100MHz only. Check what the FSB is set for.

[Denniss]

Should be a standard M6VBE with VIA 82C692 chipset with the latest Bios. This board is limited to 100 MHz FSB and your P3-1GHz seems to be of the 133 MHz variant. There are several new Bios versiones for other members of the M6VBE family (M6VBE with 82C693 chipset, M6VBE-A with 82C693A chipset) but using any of those Bios version will render your board unusable.

You have to live with the 750 MHz.

[edwin]

Just for my memory, is there a complete list of all variants of this board? It is confusing the (*&$^$ out of me each time I encounter one...

[Denniss]

At least three variants known:
1) M6VBE, 82C692 chipset, both as retail and OEM version, latest Bios 2/99
2) M6VBE, 82C693 chipset, OEM-only (FSC-only?), latest Bios 11/99
3) M6VBE-A, 82C693A chipset, both retail and OEM, latest Bios 7/2000

Some early Bios versions for the 693 board still have 692 in their Bios-ID so a Bios-ID with 692 is not always the 692 board.