Hey RogueTrip! I have my 1999 Abit BF6 yet, which is the lite edition of your BE6-II (I get 6th PCI instead of Highpoint!). Recapped my BF6 too.

The Mendocino Celerys probably won't go past 600 MHz without serious overvolting. Of course the Coppermine Celeron IIs can go higher and people would often get them to run 900-1000 MHz. A 500+ MHz Celery will really beat up a K6-3 of any speed in 3D games but in other things they would be similar.

I usually run a Katmai, Coppermine or Tualatin in my board. I'm currently recording a bunch of videos via VGA capture and am using my Slot T with the PIII-S @ 1050.

Thanks swaaye. I found a S370 400 and another 500 celeron for the picking. I was just thinking it would be fun on the 66~100mhz fun. I do have a 1.1ghz celeron (cumine core) laying around that I never tested.

Bad news is I tried testing board BE6-II's and a Abit VA-20 (S462) and all of them would start the fans/hdd and could turn on and off but NO POST/No BEEPS. Tried diff CPU's and PSU's. Nothing!

The PSU I tried is a new Rosewill 350W specced @ +3.3V@28A, +5V@35A, +12V@15A, -5V@0.5A, -12V@0.8A, +5VSB@2.5A which has been tried before. The other is a Future power 400w but does have input caps going bad. I could try a Corsair CX430 but lack -5v and has a lower +5v than the rosewill (like 20a)

Would having no battery installed cause no post with these. I haven't check the condition of the batteries but tried with and without them installed.

I had one of the BE6-II's working a couple months ago for a day or two till it stopped booting. Figured it was caps causing it. Did atleast 4 checks during the cap install to make sure no screw ups!!

So the only Slot 1 board I got working is a Asus P3B-F. 🙁

Yikes that sounds like a lot of bad luck!

My BF6 will work fine without -5v so the BE6-II should be fine without it. I've used quite a variety of PSUs with it and right now am using an old Dell P4 power supply. They should also POST without batteries ...