P3-800e slot, blows 2 Asus P3B-f boards........

[Liam]

Hi There,

A customer of ours brought in his Asus P3b with a p3 500 to be upgraded to a p3-800.
I tried his computer with the p3 and found no problem whatsoever.(I always check the sysem the customers bring first)
I removed the 500 and replaced it with the 800 (retail), after what, the system appeared to boot no problem ,chip recognized by the bios, but when I put a cd in the cdrom drive it takes 4 minutes to autorun.
We grabbed a 2nd p3b, put on the p3 500....no problem cd rom starts immediatly, changed to the 800 and bang, the cdrom would take long to start......
Bios's were flashed.....the p3b's were never the same again...;-)
I'm recomending the customer get a thunderbird and a Gigabyte.....we're getting lots of Asus boards back, I don't care what the hype says about asus, we're getting lots of bad ones back....And the ones that supposed to be cheap like acer (aopen) or Gigabytes we're getting nun back.....go figure.....

Ciao Liam

[reddog4629]

I have returned 3 Asus P3V4X MBs and this last one still beeps at post but otherwise runs ok. I'm not the only onw with problems
with this board. Asus quality control on this board sucks!

[gmcpher196]

I've got an ASUS p3B-F with the 1006 Bios running a P-3 700 o/c"d to 864 have never had any problems.Any other problems with the board. just for future reference. By the way I've been using the board since last July so it's been thru 3 or 4 Bios flashes.

[Mark]

My experience has been just the opposite. I exchanged a Gigabyte board for my P3B-F. My Gigabyte lost keyboard power-up functionality after a bios flash and then whenever I crashed it by using SoftFSB or overclocking the video card too far it would fail to detect the mouse until I cleared the bios. Reflashing to the original bios failed to fix the problem. It was very annoying.

My P3B-F has so far been indestrucible.

What's interesting to me is that you note the slow cd spin-up and recognition. That's something that recently started happening to me, too. I can't pin down the exact time frame but I did upgrade to a Celeron 566(now at 850) a few months back. It's supposedly a quality drive - Pioneer slot-loading DVD/CDROM. Not that I'd consider swapping my board but, you've got me wandering.

Mark

[Liam]

Hi Mark,

Pioneer is usually a good drive, in my case we are talking about a True 72x (kenwood?) and the other drive on the same machine is a plextor, these are both very expensive drives that otherwise work very well....
I think its the chip...we're sending ours back....
Good luck... Liam

[Mark]

If it is the chip then I guess that's just another engineering glitch to pile on top of the other recent ones we've seen from from Intel. My Mitsumi writer never has probs but with my dvd player some cd's, primarily from Maximum PC, are unreadable - the drive just keeps clicking and searching. I guess you can't win them all.

Mark