Asus L7200/L7300E motherboard info

[St0ned2k]

Hi, i have a Advent 7365 DVD notebook. This is a Asus L7300/L7200 E notebook, i am trying to find out who makes the motherborad for this notebook. i have stripped the unit and have found no fcc id's or a manufacture name on the mother board. only the follwing number 08-2100530 rev2.00

i'm trying to find out what cpu it can support ?????


Thanks in advanced to any one that can help

[NooNoo]

Hi, i have a Advent 7365 DVD notebook. This is a Asus L7300/L7200 E notebook, i am trying to find out who makes the motherborad for this notebook. i have stripped the unit and have found no fcc id's or a manufacture name on the mother board. only the follwing number 08-2100530 rev2.00

i'm trying to find out what cpu it can support ?????


Thanks in advanced to any one that can help
Welcome to Windrivers!


According to the manual you have a 440bx chipset. You should be able to put any p3 100 mhz chips in there.... but you sure its not soldered into the motherboard?

[St0ned2k]

Welcome to Windrivers!


According to the manual you have a 440bx chipset. You should be able to put any p3 100 mhz chips in there.... but you sure its not soldered into the motherboard?



Thanks for the the speedy response. the cpu is not soldered onto the motherboard. but there is a set of dip switches by the cpu i'm trying to find out the settings for the multiplier for dip switches for the cpu.


Thanks

[klep]

Hello !
I found this topic after several days searching information about dip switches for my L7300 notebook.

May be anybody found manual about this switches ?

Please help !

[NooNoo]

Welcome to Windrivers Klep

I can't find a service manual anywhere... but one thought struck me... The motherboard was made by Asus, and they tended to keep the dipswitch settings the same across the various motherboards... so it MIGHT be possible to look at an asus motherboard (http://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/Archive/Asus/sock370/440bx/cubx-l/cubxl-101.pdf) and see of the dip switch bank has the same number of switches... and therefore the same settings...

[klep]

Thank you for idea !

I'm will looking for simular m/b but in my m/b only 4 switch in dip. For 100Mhz Bus and 5x it is ON ON OFF ON (500Mhz) I didn't find related params in your pdf.

[klep]

May be that is closer [DIP1 - DIP4] ;)

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/modifying-asus-a7v-motherboard-duron,224-5.html

I need to try setup 5.5 multiplier if it is will ok, the table is correct !

[NooNoo]

How did it go?

[klep]

I'm waiting new cpu (from Singapure) 800Mhz, after that I will try to increment current multiply to 5.5 (on my old 500Mhz cpu) !

[NooNoo]

the fsb should be 100 and then you will need a multiplier of 8. A lot of boards you set the fsb and the multiplier happened automatically.. I hope the bios understands an 800mhz cpu....

[klep]

I tried set multiplier to 5.5 (0ff 0n 0ff 0n) but no result still 500Mhz (may be internal limitation).

I hope with 800Mhz will be better :thumbs:

In bios I didn't find any multiplier !

[NooNoo]

Err you do know that those intel cpus were locked... you can't overclock them by raising the multiplier.

[klep]

Ohh thank you! Before that I worked only with desktop cpu and motheboard and they locked not realy often

[klep]

I still have waiting for 800Mhz !

But I have one question.

My current CPU is http://www.cpu-world.com/sspec/SL/SL3RG.html
Core stepping PA2

But I order new cpu :http://www.cpu-world.com/sspec/SL/SL4GT.html
Core stepping PC0

Is it will work ?


*** is a core stepping anyway? Core stepping simply refers to revisions in die design made by Intel. The A2 stepping topped out at 800MHz, so in order to produce faster chips intel revised the coppermine core to correct errata and slightly deepen the processor's pipeline. The result was the B0 stepping, which allowed Intel to finally achieve mass production of 1GHz chips. When Intel realised that they couldn't make their 1GHz B0 chips stable in dual-processor configuration, they made another revision, the C0 stepping, which again removed errata and also shrank the die size by 5% (9% in the case of Celerons). In other words a change in the stepping of a processor represents a significant change in its limitations.

[NooNoo]

No idea, there is not enough information on the motherboard.

[klep]

But what about CPU Core stepping ! Is it compatible ?

[NooNoo]

Not enough information - the motherboard has to be compatible, not the core stepping.

Have you figured out how to get 8x multiplier yet? That's your biggest problem.

Have you found any other laptops containing this motherboard? What's the biggest processor that went in it?

[klep]

Have you figured out how to get 8x multiplier yet? That's your biggest problem.


I wrote to asus, but they told my: go to asus service ;)
I didn't find any service manual for Asus or for Advent (the simular model with L7300 motheboard)

The biggest CPU what I Found:
ASUS L7300, Intel Celeron/Pentium III 650-800 Mhz
In russian:
http://www.price.od.ua/catalog.phtml?id_t=297&id_p=1&id_c=17

I found service manual for Compal NoteBook N20U
Intel P III Mobile Coppermine CPU 500MHz, Celeon 450/500MHz.
Intel µPGA2 package
FW82371(PIIX4M) for PCI IDE controller & USB interface.
FW82443 BX Support 100MHz Front side Bus.

Very closer (to my ASUS) but again not DIP switches for CPU.

[NooNoo]

All you can do is try it...

[klep]

Success !

Pentium III (SL4GT) 800Mhz - worked (without any sw modification).

But new Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-C2202 didn't work :-( (I think this is laptop firmware problem)
I found new bios firmware but I'm afraid update it ;) (for desktop computer I have made it).

What you think about bios update for laptop ? Is it hard to restore it if error will ocur after laptop restart ?

Thank you



---------------L7000-E Series Notebook----------------

-------BIOS--------
lse0011a.exe ASUS L7000-E Series Notebook, BIOS rev. 0011 (Mar./27/2001)
1. Support thermal override function.
2. Update battery refresh algorithm.
3. Fix LCD will white-out for about 4 seconds when resume from Suspend to RAM
(only happen with Sigmatel codec).

lse0010a.exe ASUS L7000-E Series Notebook, BIOS rev. 0010 (Oct./12/2000)
1. Latest updates.

lse0009a.exe ASUS L7000-E Series Notebook, BIOS rev. 0009 (Sep./01/2000)
1. Support Sigmatel codec.
2. Support battery refresh function.

lse0008a.exe ASUS L7000-E Series Notebook, BIOS rev. 0008 (Aug./28/2000)
1. Add resume from RINGIN function for ACPI OS.
2. Fix resume from disk then restart to MS-DOS when under Win98 SE.
3. Fix Fn+Fn function does not work.
4. Fix Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-C2302 not found if TOSHIBA MK1016GAP hard disk is installed.

lse0007a.exe ASUS L7000-E Series Notebook, BIOS rev. 0007 (Jul./04/2000)
1. Leave Speedstep control to AP in NT 4.0 if AP installed.
2. Add DMI system information version (set to 0001).
3. Fix issues:
a) FIR transmission fail if "IR port" set to "Auto".
b) System hangs on restarting to MS-DOS mode.
c) System stays with ASUS logo if hard disk password is set.
d) If hard disk password is set after Windows 2000 resumed from S3, the display
will turn off when entering the password.
4. Support CardWizard in NT 4.0.
5. Add UID for LPT.
6. Configure CD-ROM when hard disk not installed.
7. Soultion for "sometimes hangs on resume from disk".

lse0006a.exe L70000-E Series Notebook BIOS ver. 0006 (10/May/2000)
1. Change ACPI mode fan on temperature AC/DC : 60/70C --> 70/80C
2. Solve for Fn+F1 fail when restart Windows 2000 and then boot to Windows 98
command prompt mode only.

** my current **
lse0005a.exe L70000-E Series Notebook BIOS ver. 0005 (04/May/2000)
1. Solve for H/W icon would not disappear if power management is disabled.
2. Support M38867 with v1.27 firmware.
3. Solve failure to format hard disk when installing Windows 98 from CD.
4. Reassign IRQs for PCI devices if "Installed O/S:" is Other.
5. Solve for PCMCIA socket B not working under NT 4.0
6. Add microcode updates for the B0-step mobile Pentium III processor and mobile
Celeron Processor (0.18-micron) in BGA2 and Micro-PGA2 packages.
7. Solve for Windows 98 long booting time.
8. Set correct DMI CPU type string when Celeron CPU in used.
9. Display CPU type (in post) the same way as other machines.
10. Support variant panel type.
11. Leave SpeedStep control to O/S or applet if installed.
12. Solve for abnormal screen sometimes after Fn hot key is pressed.
13. Solve for high microphone volume after resume from suspend if system enters
standby before suspend.

lse0004a.exe L70000-E Series Notebook BIOS ver. 0004 (18/Apr/2000)
1. Report fake game port to support DDR kit.
2. Update VGA BIOS.
3. Modify DMI type 1 product string.
4. Solve hard disk resume password fail after warm boot.
5. Mute battery low beep when resume from S3.
6. Remove blank characters from DMI strings.
7. Simplify power status (APM mode) algorithm when Pctel modem in use.
8. Set panel brightness to maximum when loading CMOS default setting.
9. Modify ACPI mode battery status control method so that the capacity
reading can be charged to 100%.
10. Solve WIN2000 HP5L printer,Iomega ZIP250 device fail to work
after wake up from S1.
11. Change ACPI mode thermal control (add event notification control methods)

[klep]

I updated bios (v.12) ! But DVD(I tested on dvd-rom and dvd-ram) still hasn't detected :-(

[CCT]

Heya klep. What OS are you using?

Have you tried the longshot 'fix' of cleaning the upper/lower filters?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060


Failing that, how about ASPI layer?

http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/aspisetup.cfm

[klep]

2 CCT

without any OS , didn't detect in bios

[CCT]

And this is an IDE dvd with jumper Master hooked to an 80 wire-40 pin cable on the END connector?

[klep]

yes, I tested with toshiba sd-c2202 and toshiba ts-l632 (40pin connector).
No any jumpers for master/slave ! I think he looks CS.

May be new bios didn't update DMI information ;) I don't know (I made all by instruction from asus)

[CCT]

Apparently the toshiba sd-c2202 can be set in firmware either master or slave - try the slave connection.

Have you checked dma/pio settings in Bios?

[klep]

My notebook didn't see it, and I can't set any settings in bios (or change firmware).

[CCT]

Just out of interest, have you tried the dvd on both IDE connectors (primary and secondary)?

[klep]

No ! I can't ;) because i have only one IDE connection for CD and another for HDD (I can't connect to it CD because it's hided in hdd cady).
Regards.

p.s
I solve connect DVD as external drive through USB.

[CCT]

Well then, it sounds like the cd/dvd connnections or ports are disfunctional. Will the USB connection boot the install disk?

[klep]

No, Cd works normal ;) only new DVD didn't works. With USB I didn't try I have only solve ;)

[CCT]

Sorry I got a little 'off' on the cabling (laptop versus desktop) - I did think you could use an adapter cable to test the dvd in the hard drive bay.

So, the cd drive works in the laptop bay and the dvd works in the USB.

Great!

:)

[NooNoo]

Glad to hear it was sucessful... always nerve wracking when there is not quite enough info.