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Besides the voltage difference why cant I use a tualitin celeron instead of a fcpga pIII. did they change pins like the ppga to fcpga or is it a bios issue. I was just thinking of trying to install a 1ghz tualitin celeron in my abit va6 board ( on a slot converter ) and see if the bios thinks its an...

trigem makes mobos for E-machines
try looking thru E-machines site for a model with that processor and then search the net for jumper settings for that board.
E-machines charges a $20. + fee for settings and bios flashes.
P.S. the C in there model names = celeron, K = K6-2
hope this helps

I have had the same problem with a few boards and I had to go into the devices resource listing and manually set them. the tell tail is when you first look at the resources for the device it says that "this device is not using any (known configuration) (normal settings) please set the configuration ...

One is a (p5i430tx titanium I B) and a (p5i430vx/250DM explorer II ) boards that support p75-233mmx. one I thought had the jumper set to clear the bios, so I jumpered it and burned two traces on the board. before this it would drain a battery in 3 days. the other board had a cpu fan that went bad an...