PC Chips boards?

[Billforce]

I now have four PC Chips boards Mo. M748mr where the 370 socket will not recognize or work with any 370 chip, P 11, P111 or Celeron....any speed, but the slot 1 socket works fine with all three types of CPU's. I have rechecked all the jumpers etc. but no go. Reflashed bios, even changed the bios chips?
Has anyone else experienced this?

[$1500-P4 gamer]

My mom had that board. There is a jumper near the ZIF that sets for slot 1 or s370. You didnt switch it I take it? I upgraded hers from a slot 1 cel 366 to a s370 cel II 800mhz so it (the board) does run P3 as this is the same core as the cel II. You have the manual?

[Billforce]

I have changed the jumpers on all boards until I about wore out the pins. No effect! Strange how it loses the one socket. Works fine with a slot 1 CPU and the jumper set for slot 1.

[$1500-P4 gamer]

Does the slot 1 still work when you set it to S370 on the jumper? Just somthing to try and see what it does?

[Peter M]

Old revisions of M748(L)MR had a PPGA socket-370, running only the original black PPGA Celerons up to 533. Later revisions were FCPGA compliant - seems you got an old one there. These still run newer Celerons and P-III in the slot, using a slocket adapter.

[Billforce]

Originally posted by Peter M
Old revisions of M748(L)MR had a PPGA socket-370, running only the original black PPGA Celerons up to 533. Later revisions were FCPGA compliant - seems you got an old one there. These still run newer Celerons and P-III in the slot, using a slocket adapter.

Thanks Peter but the problem was the board originally had a Celeron 366mhz and worked fine. The 370 pin socket evedently quit. The slot 1 still works but the 370 is dead with even the older Celeron series chips.

[$1500-P4 gamer]

Sure the bios didnt go-poop on ya? Flash just one of them to newest and see if it fixes it. Ya got 4 right? And they ALL lost the ZIF thats just hard to believe. I do believe ya-but its weird to say the least, thats why Im thinking bios flash time maybe? And as Peter said (which I totally overlooked) a slocket will allow you to use the newer P3 ZIF cpu's. Find'em cheap on Ebay

[Billforce]

Not a problem with the slockets, I have some in stock...I was simply perplexed why I would lose zif sockets on 4 diff. boards. Curious to know if any one else had incurred the same problem?

[$1500-P4 gamer]

Dunno they all running same bios? Yes, I agree 4 boards all the same ZIF dead issue-very weird indeed. The one we had was fine so I dont really know what to say. Bad batch maybe????????