I bought an Asus P2B-DS motherboard for my 90's ultimate machine project. 😀 There are some way to test this motherboard with only one processor and without a terminator board?
Have you tried it with just 1 CPU and without a terminator?
Edit: According to this thread, someone did run it without a terminator card. I don't have this board and never worked with one so I don't really know first hand if this will actually work or not.
wrote:Have you tried it with just 1 CPU and without a terminator?
No. I'm afraid to break up the motherboard...
In the motherboard manual:
IMPORTANT: If you are installing only one processor, you must terminate the empty slot with ASUS C-P2T PC 100 CPU termination card to maintain signal strength.
Can i use this PII CPU card converter for this purpose?
http://i.imgur.com/RRE0a0s.jpg
wrote:Can i use this PII CPU card converter for this purpose?
http://i.imgur.com/RRE0a0s.jpg
I don't know, but I doubt it.
The pic is of a generic slotket, it's not a terminator.
i tried turn on the computer with a single cpu and nothing happened (no image, no pc speaker sound). :\ I don't know if the problem is from motherboard or the processor. I will buy 2 new pentium II 450 to do the test.
I got another identical motherboard. Seems to be working perfectly until i install the operating system:
With windows 2000, the computer crash in beggining of the installation.
In windows 98, after the installation, the computer crash in loading of the OS.
Too bad to be true... 🙁
Does anyone know how to find out the cause of the problem?
wrote:I got another identical motherboard. Seems to be working perfectly until i install the operating system: […]
I got another identical motherboard. Seems to be working perfectly until i install the operating system:
With windows 2000, the computer crash in beggining of the installation.
In windows 98, after the installation, the computer crash in loading of the OS.Too bad to be true... 🙁
Does anyone know how to find out the cause of the problem?
Have you tried googling a computer repair flowchart? This should be helpful for you to diagnose what the problem could be 😀
The error/crash could be anything (could be faulty RAM)
wrote:wrote:I got another identical motherboard. Seems to be working perfectly until i install the operating system: […]
I got another identical motherboard. Seems to be working perfectly until i install the operating system:
With windows 2000, the computer crash in beggining of the installation.
In windows 98, after the installation, the computer crash in loading of the OS.Too bad to be true... 🙁
Does anyone know how to find out the cause of the problem?
Have you tried googling a computer repair flowchart? This should be helpful for you to diagnose what the problem could be 😀
The error/crash could be anything (could be faulty RAM)
I have tested with different RAM modules.
In windows 98 i can access through the safe mode... strange...
Edit:
The last lines in bootlog.txt file
LoadStart = MSGSRV32.EXE
LoadSuccess = MSGSRV32.EXE
Init = Final USER
InitDone = Final USER
Init = Installable Drivers
InitDone = Installable Drivers
Init = TSRQuery
InitDone = TSRQuery
[00041112] Starting Unknown (HTREE\RESERVED\0)
[00041112] Started Unknown (HTREE\RESERVED\0)
[00041114] Enumerating Unknown (HTREE\RESERVED\0)
[00041114] Enumerated Unknown (HTREE\RESERVED\0)
Are you shure that your PSU is 100% OK?
Are you using 1 or 2 CPU's? I vaguely remember having trouble installing 2k on the same board with 2 CPU's.
Something about having to specify MPS during install. I think 2003 worked out everything by itself. So just went with that
wrote:Are you shure that your PSU is 100% OK?
Yes, the PSU is working well...
wrote:Are you using 1 or 2 CPU's? I vaguely remember having trouble installing 2k on the same board with 2 CPU's.
Something about having to specify MPS during install. I think 2003 worked out everything by itself. So just went with that
I tested with single (with terminator card) and dual CPU configuration...
I will try with Windows Server 2003.
Same problem here:
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=939160
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1062097
One more clue... I can use windows 95 without problems!
What's happen here?!
Tried disabeling the SCSI controller? I dont remember having much problems installing Windows 2000 om my Asus P2B-D.
I tried disabling the SCSI controller and doesn't worked...
To put the option back, i decided to reset the bios (I had already done before) and it worked! 😁 Very strange...
Problem solved. Thanks!
