128 X 128 pixel frame

[firefighter]

I built a PII-350 system with an ASUS P2B MB, no over clocking, simple yet workable machine. It has Millenium g200 board with 8 Meg of SDRAM and an older bios of 2.3 and 4.10 driver. I believe the mobo is a rev 1.04 and bios update about 1009. Since day one on boot up, or sometimes in graphics on the net, the mouse pointer turns into a square box that looks like fast video is working within it. Of course everything crashes. Nothing but a hard boot will get things operational. Sometimes when it reboots, the same fast video square will show up, causing everthing to crash and another hard boot.

In other forums I read that this particular problem is evident with ASUS P2B series boards. Something about a 128 pixel frame. Have you heard of such a phenomeon? IF so are there any patches or fixes? To say the least after one year of this, it's getting pretty frustrating. ONce the system is up and working everything seems to work fairly well. Even the USB, which others said is faulty, works well with a Canon flatbed.

[Maggi]

First try the latest BIOS for your MoBo

then look into your BIOS setup and disable all video caching and set the VGA Boot sequence to 'AGP/PCI' (is defaulted to PCI/AGP) ...

Report back if your problem remains.

PS: List of changes ...

P2B BIOS Ver. 1011. 10/28/99
Support IDE hard disk larger than 32G bytes.
Revised microcode update support for Cu-Mine processors.
Fix for Microsoft Pre-OS test failure
Added microcode update support for Coppermine cA-2 stepping. (681)
Microcode update upgrade for PII 653, 672, and 673.
653: 00A->010; 672: 00B->00C; 673: 007->00A.
Fix for boot failure with some boot managers installed.
Fix for NMI error generated when some AGP card installed.
Fix for Russian Y2K test program failed.


P2B BIOS Ver. 1010. 07/29/99
Fix for screen resume failure sometimes when running in ACPI mode.
Revised Y2K patch.
Updated Symbios BIOS to Rev 4.12.
Fix for system failure after Suspend when running Win98 second edition.
Fix for ACPI mode resource not allocated as Setup selected for ECP+EPP2/278h/IRQ5 combination.
Disable LPT port in Windows when it's Setup disabled.
Added microcode update support for Coppermine cA-0. (CPU ID=680)
Upgraded microcode update data for 650, 651, 652, 653, 655, 672, and 673 processors.
Revision: 650 -> 40; 651 -> 40; 652 -> 2a, 653 -> 0a; 665 -> 03; 672 -> 0b; 673 -> 07; 680 -> 0b;
Microcode update for Coppermine 256K upgraded to revision 014.
Support Intel PIII-600MHz CPU.