Slotkets can be finicky. Are you sure it supports Coppermine core Celerons? It could be only supporting up to Celeron 533, which was the last Mendocino Celeron. Another thing to note is that the Celeron 900 uses the 100MHz FSB which the slotket might not support, although I bet that in that case it would probably run at 66MHz FSB.

In any case, check your motherboard for bulging capacitors, especially in area surround the CPU slot. Bad capacitors can lead to the system being unstable and not POSTing every time 😉.

Well.. I doubt that the Slotket is the issue here, it supports up to 133MHz apparently, and came with a Pentium III 700 on it.

I found the Manual for it and the latest bios, at the www.lucky-star.com.tw using the web archive, The manual states that it only supports Klamath,Mendocino,Deschutes,Katmai, and Covington. The latest bios appears to be from April 1999, so it looks like it the bios would probably have to be modded to add newer microcodes, and even then I don't think it is guaranteed that the VRM is to the correct specification to run a Coppermine CPU.

i486_inside wrote:

I found the Manual for it and the latest bios, at the http://www.lucky-star.com.tw using the web archive, The manual states that it only supports Klamath,Mendocino,Deschutes,Katmai, and Covington. The latest bios appears to be from April 1999, so it looks like it the bios would probably have to be modded to add newer microcodes, and even then I don't think it is guaranteed that the VRM is to the correct specification to run a Coppermine CPU.

Thank you kindly for this information. Would I have better luck using the ABIT BE6-II board I have instead?

It should, I recommend picking up the latest bios from the abit FTP backup, ftp://91.121.194.115/pub/download/bios/be6-II/beh70.exe

i486_inside wrote:

It should, I recommend picking up the latest bios from the abit FTP backup, ftp://91.121.194.115/pub/download/bios/be6-II/beh70.exe

On the one hand, this is a fun project for a rebuild and reinstall as it would give me the excuse I needed to get rid of WinMe and revert to Win98, so yay! On the other hand, I'm not really sure a Voodoo 3 would benefit much from upgrading from a PIII 450 to a Celeron 900 so there's that..

On the ISA slot there should be a sticker that says what revision it is if it is revision 1.2 , use this bios, ftp://91.121.194.115/pub/download/bios/be6-II … 201.2/bep71.exe

Many of the first 440BX boards do not have the VRM's to support Coppermine processors. I have an early revision Asus P2B that fits this. Their VRM's, apparently, only allow them to go as low as 1.8V or something, which is above spec for Coppermine (usually 1.65V). Looking at the picture of your slotket, it looks like it doesn't have a VRM on it, so that doesn't help either. The Powerleap slotkets, for example, have a VRM, so you can use Coppermines on boards that would not normally support it.

Your BE6-II doesn't have the issues.

i486_inside wrote:

On the ISA slot there should be a sticker that says what revision it is if it is revision 1.2 , use this bios, ftp://91.121.194.115/pub/download/bios/be6-II … 201.2/bep71.exe

Checked and its a v1.0

I just noticed today that the SMD resistor to the upper left of the socket (to the upper left of the blue capacitor) is missing. I have two of these slotkets so I compared them, and it is indeed supposed to be there and gone. Not sure if that was the reason why it didn't work, but I've binned this slotket. Maybe I should try again with the other slotket.