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Z-monster
July 16th, 1999, 10:10 AM
I recently got a P III 550, and wanted to put it in my system. The older Epox 61bx-am did not support the P III, so I got a new Asus P2BF with the latest bios UG....
The machine hung intermittently. (In bios, dos, windows) I thought maybe the memory was bad, so I changed it for a PC100 Micron. Same thing. I had the CPU swapped....no luck.
Since then, I've tried two other Mainboards, with the same problem. The boards tried were Abit BX6 R2, and the Soyo SY6BA+. Both with the latest bios updates.

What gives?

Any input would be appreciated.

As a side note, all these combinations worked flawlessly with a P III 500.
The rest of my system stuff are....
16MB CL Banshee AGP, SB PCI 128, Kenwood True 52X CD-ROM, IBM Deskstar 10GXP HDD.

Help!

Darren Wilson
July 16th, 1999, 02:51 PM
I have suffered this prob also with some boards, the only bosards that I have had 100% success with the 550 with is the Gigabyte GA6-BX2000 ( Dual BIOS ). Give them a try

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