da*m the ASUS TUSL2-C is almost perfect except for the 512mb limit maybe a bio flash could fix it would love this mobo for my linux box.

It's a hardware limitation of the 815 chipset. I think it's pretty obvious that Intel wanted everyone to associate 815 with 810's positioning. It wasn't supposed to be a high-end solution. It was gimped to prevent it from competing with 820 and 840. See 430TX for more of this kind of thing.

A friend on mine and myself both had this board when they were new. For the most part it was a good board, but it seems that there was some kind of defect in the IDE controller that caused the slow death of ATA drives. Has anyone heard of this before?

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A friend on mine and myself both had this board when they were new. For the most part it was a good board, but it seems that there was some kind of defect in the IDE controller that caused the slow death of ATA drives. Has anyone heard of this before?

Nope. I've had mine for a few years with the same IDE drive and have never had an issue. Though, who knows how slow is the "slow death" you're talking about.

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so is there a Tualatin board that supports more than 512 mb ram i have an asus cuv4 board that doesn't run Tualatin without an adapter it's not so hot with adapters or Tualatin cpus. might just replace it with a s939 board and a spare 939 cpu i have.

See already on ebay this board!

Seems like the 6th pci slot looks really strange...

But it seems this is alright, it looks also smaller in the manual.

http://oldschooldaw.com/asus/2001/tusl2c-104.pdf

It's just a slimmer slot design. Maybe they didn't have room in the board routing for a normal slot there.

If you get an Apollo 133 board you can have Tualatin and a lot more RAM, I think up to 1.5GB?

Given the choice though i'd go with 815 as it seems to be slightly faster in benchmarks

Edit, oops didnt realise how old this thread was 😀

I remeber getting an i815 mobo to POST with 1x 512 MB. I haven't tried shoving 1 GB to an i815 just to see what happens xD. I have also 1 GB PC133 sticks, but they are EEC Registred which i doubt the i815 supports it

The only i815 system i currently own is a Dell Optiplex GX150 (Sadly the earlier revision without tualatin support)

At one time I had an Abit VH6-II with a passively cooled Pentium III 800 MHz and sporting 1.5 GB. I ran Puppy linux from a compact flash card (no hard drives) and could even afford a 512 MB RAM disk. I used this computer as a server for a couple of years and loved how silent it was.

Hate to be the necromancer of the group.... but i just recently optained an ASUS TUSL2-C motherboard and put together a rather nice WIN98se retro system.

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Carlos S. M. wrote:

I remeber getting an i815 mobo to POST with 1x 512 MB. I haven't tried shoving 1 GB to an i815 just to see what happens xD. I have also 1 GB PC133 sticks, but they are EEC Registred which i doubt the i815 supports it

The only i815 system i currently own is a Dell Optiplex GX150 (Sadly the earlier revision without tualatin support)

Update to my 2 year old quote, tried an 1 GB PC133 ECC Reg stick on a Gigabyte GA-6OXT-A, did post, but only recorgnized 512 MB

Bige4u wrote:

Hate to be the necromancer of the group.... but i just recently optained an ASUS TUSL2-C motherboard and put together a rather nice WIN98se retro system.

Retro Rig Photo Thread

Necro posting is not so bad here, but JUST to anounce your other thread on the same subject??

Carlos S. M. wrote:

Carlos S. M. wrote:

I remeber getting an i815 mobo to POST with 1x 512 MB. I haven't tried shoving 1 GB to an i815 just to see what happens xD. I have also 1 GB PC133 sticks, but they are EEC Registred which i doubt the i815 supports it

The only i815 system i currently own is a Dell Optiplex GX150 (Sadly the earlier revision without tualatin support)

Update to my 2 year old quote, tried an 1 GB PC133 ECC Reg stick on a Gigabyte GA-6OXT-A, did post, but only recorgnized 512 MB

I've also got a Gigabyte GA-6OXT motherboard, but without the onboard audio, purposely bought it that way so i can use my own sound card, also used up to 512mb, nothing more, and it works great with the P3 1.4ghz tualatin cpu.

I have a P3-1ghz. Build with that same Motherboard. But it has problems. The Bios soft CPU menu does not want to retain the setting.
I tried to hard set the CPU setting with the jumpers but then the computer would not boot.
So I am stuck with using the bios soft CPU menu settings.
Works fine it just does not retain the setting so every-time I shutdown the computer it looses it's CPU settings.
I did replace the battery.

Intel486dx33 wrote:

Works fine it just does not retain the setting so every-time I shutdown the computer it looses it's CPU settings.
I did replace the battery.

Mine does the same thing. Battery didn't fix it.

Zero_sugar wrote:

Intel486dx33 wrote:

Works fine it just does not retain the setting so every-time I shutdown the computer it looses it's CPU settings.
I did replace the battery.

Mine does the same thing. Battery didn't fix it.

My Tusl2-c also does that. Maybe it is because the 1,4ghz Tualatin is not officially supported? Support is up to 1,2ghz p3 so maybe this stepping is not known by bios and therefor it sees it as a new cpu everytime it posts? Works fine after booting so not a big deal for me.. Will soon try other boards to see if they do the same, I have 3 Tusl2-c in total.

I've seen this weird battery draining behaviour before. I wonder what the hell causes it? A faulty diode?

Anonymous Coward wrote:

I've seen this weird battery draining behaviour before. I wonder what the hell causes it? A faulty diode?

He didn't actually mention it drained the battery every time, did he? Just that it won't retain settings (jumper to reset BIOS to defaults wrongly set?).