ASUS and G400

[Herb]

I think there is a compatability problem
with my ASUS P2B-B mb and my oem g400.
I couldn't get it to stop freezing up for
a week. Had to send it back and vendor tried
the same motherboard and said yes there is a
compatability problem. Does anybody know
about this problem and can post a solution?
I would appreciate it. Thanks

[gijs]

Hello Herb.

Got the same problem with a Biostar mobo.
M6TBA, BX.

Stange lock ups.Garbled screens.In short, it's a mess.


Bye


gijs

[agallag]

What OS? If you're running Win95, make sure you have usbsupp.exe installed. It updates agp support too. Please provide more info on your setups so we can help you out.

Andrew

[Herb]

I am running Win98 with upgrade. I have 256M ram, PIII@450MHz, I've already sent the card back to the vendor and he said that it freezes on his ASUS motherboard also but ran for 2 days on an ABIT B6. His tech also said that there is a compatability problem with ASUS. He's trying to sell me an ASUS
3800 TNT-2 card to replace it and I'm just about ready to go along.

[Kruzin_K]

Do you by chance have ECC RAM in there?
There is a known issue with the P2Bs if you are running with ECC checking enabled. Disabling ECC in the BIOS seems to work around the issue for now. Hopefully, Asus will update their BIOS to handle this problem.

I have standard PC100 RAM on my P2B, and have not had any problems with my G400...

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PII-450(@112*4.5=504), Asus P2B(1009), 128meg PC100, MillenniumG400 32meg DH(5.??.???/1.?), 3Com 905B-TX, CL SB Live!value, (2)USR internal 56k v.90 Sportsters (multilinked), WD 8.4&6.4gig HDD, CL PC-DVD, Mitscrewme CD-RW, combo floppy, an old conner tape drive, and a lot of fans

[Herb]

Bye the way, I ran PC List and it says I'm in AGPx1 and I had already shipped the card back before I could force it to AGPx2 with a PD5 reghack. But I do not see why it should freeze anyway if it is in AGPx1.

[Herb]

I have non-ecc sdram 100MHz

[cpld006]

Im using a Asus P3B-F and a G400 so is my roommate, absolutely no problems at all. your card might be bad, but I seriously doubt it's an Asus issue since we both had P2B's before the P3B's, and still no problems..

[Herb]

I'll see if the vendor will go along with sending me a new g400. I should get it by Friday. I'll repost then.

[The PIT2]

Herb it's not up to the Vendor to choose a replacement (Unless you done something silly like throwing all the orginal packaging away using the CDrom driver disk as a beer matt). Ask for another G400 or your Money back if he starts been funny give im hell

[VIKINGMAN]

herb

Which Bios-revision are you running on your ASUS P2B-F? Try to upgrade it!

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HBS - ASUS P2B-S, PII 350MHz(o/c to 412MHz), Mill. G200, 128MB RAM, Cheetah 9.1GB Ultra2, Plextor 32x CD-Rom, Sony CD-R, Canon Scanner - all SCSI, SB64AWE.