Hi Victor, I also have an Abit BH6.  I bought this mobo because I had read
so many great things about it.  In fact my friend bought one at the same
time.  He has already returned his because it would not recognize his sound
or video cards.  I am still holding on to mine, for what reason I don't
know.

About every 3 boot ups I get "pci serial controller" found.  It won't let me
dial up my ISP in this condition.  So I end up pushing the cancel button and
restarting windows.  Then it works fine.  I also get an occasional "memory
test fail" (I know the memory is good) and it locks up periodically.  I have
been told by several people that they think it is the mobo.  I will be
getting an Asus as soon as I can spring for it.  Hope this helps.

Colby Wenck

victor patman wrote:

> hello all
>          I have a Abit BH6 with a overclocked  Celleron running at 450
> MHz, a WD
> 8.4 gig HDD, a Viper 550 AGP, Yamaha OPL3 128 sound card, Apache 56k
> V.90
> modem, a Mitsumi CDROM , and a 8X20 Plexwriter. I just recently low
> level formatted
> the HDD and reinstalled Windows98. I installed the drivers for the video
> card, cdrom,
> and the sound card. The mobo software ide busmaster wouldn't load
> because it was
> looking for Windows95  and not Windows98. Upon rebooting after Windows98
> instalation and hardware configuration. It starts to look for a PCI
> Serial Controller driver.
> So I try to install a driver and  appearently the driver isn't in
> Windows98 or the mobo
> software disk. I've even tried the sound card disk. Nothing. When I go
> to Device Manager under Other Devices it shows PCI  Serial Controller
> with a yellow triangle and
> a black exclamation mark. When I go to properties it tells me that the
> device is not
> installed or the driver needs to be installed. I tried updating the
> driver and none could be found. I've looked for it but I couldn't find
> it anywhere. I also went to System in Device
> Manager and checked the properties for one of the Motherboard Resorces
> and I got
> the same Message I got under the PCI Serial Controller. Either it isn't
> installed or the
> driver needs to be installed, and I get the same results when I try to
> installed a driver.
> I suspect that the mobo might be bad. Are my suspicions correct?
>
> vic
>
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