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Love this board... Asus P2B-VM Slot 1 Mobo

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First post, by kalohimal

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Have been keeping this in storage for many years, recently dug out to play with it a little. It has onboard ATI 3D Rage Pro graphics and ESS Solo-1 audio chips, an ISA slot, and has PC/PCI header, so it can be completely stand alone as a retro gaming PC. I'm using a fanless PIII-733 with it and it's extremely quiet when power on. The shortcomings are the lack of AGP slot, and it doesn't seem to like CPUs greater than 800MHz. The CPU frequency and multiplier settings are completely auto. I'd tried putting 1GHz coppermine in a Slotket in it but the frequency just won't go over 800MHz (vs the Abit BH6 that I have that will accept it). (Turned out it was because I forgot to set the jumpers properly)

Motherboard: Asus P2B-VM
Form Factor: micro-ATX
Chipset: 440BX + PIIX4E
RAM type: PC100 (max 768MB)
BIOS: 1014 Beta 03
Onboard Graphics: ATI 3D Rage Pro
Onboard Audio: ESS Solo-1

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Reply 1 of 6, by moawkwrd

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Nice board! It'd be good for a PCI Voodoo build too.

Re CPU multiplier - is there no jumpers on the board itself? My 440BX Supermicro board needs physical jumpers changing as per each CPU supported.

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Reply 2 of 6, by kalohimal

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moawkwrd wrote on 2020-06-14, 12:34:

Nice board! It'd be good for a PCI Voodoo build too.

Re CPU multiplier - is there no jumpers on the board itself? My 440BX Supermicro board needs physical jumpers changing as per each CPU supported.

Yes, adding a PCI Voodoo card would be nice! I have one in storage too, perhaps one day I should dig it up and build with this board into a case.

And you're right about the jumpers! I kept thinking about soft-CPU settings in BIOS as I was so spoilt by Abit BH6. There is indeed a section in the manual talking about the frequency and multiplier settings. Think I shall try it out later.

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Reply 3 of 6, by Tetrium

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Are you sure the CPU is really running at 800MHz instead of the 1000MHz?
It might just be a display bug. Iirc Coppermines of that era had multiplier locks, so they couldn't be set to run at any other frequency this way.
You should be able to check the performance of the CPU by running some benchmarks. Even SuperPi should suffice.

This board reminds me a lot of the ASUS MEL-C and MEL-M boards. Used to run such a board with the onboard Solo-1 and a PCI TNT2-M64 to great content.

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Reply 4 of 6, by kalohimal

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Finally got time to test it out, it's the jumpers setting that I forgot about, haha 😀 Now running with a Celeron 1100MHz with 100MHz fsb so no overclocking of the chipset is needed.

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Reply 5 of 6, by kalohimal

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Tetrium wrote on 2020-06-15, 12:46:
Are you sure the CPU is really running at 800MHz instead of the 1000MHz? It might just be a display bug. Iirc Coppermines of tha […]
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Are you sure the CPU is really running at 800MHz instead of the 1000MHz?
It might just be a display bug. Iirc Coppermines of that era had multiplier locks, so they couldn't be set to run at any other frequency this way.
You should be able to check the performance of the CPU by running some benchmarks. Even SuperPi should suffice.

This board reminds me a lot of the ASUS MEL-C and MEL-M boards. Used to run such a board with the onboard Solo-1 and a PCI TNT2-M64 to great content.

At that time I was using the Coppermine P3-1GHz, with fsb of 133MHz x7.5. Because I forgot about the jumper which was set at 100MHz, 100x7.5 resulting in 750MHz 🤣.

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Reply 6 of 6, by Tetrium

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kalohimal wrote on 2020-06-17, 06:04:
Tetrium wrote on 2020-06-15, 12:46:
Are you sure the CPU is really running at 800MHz instead of the 1000MHz? It might just be a display bug. Iirc Coppermines of tha […]
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Are you sure the CPU is really running at 800MHz instead of the 1000MHz?
It might just be a display bug. Iirc Coppermines of that era had multiplier locks, so they couldn't be set to run at any other frequency this way.
You should be able to check the performance of the CPU by running some benchmarks. Even SuperPi should suffice.

This board reminds me a lot of the ASUS MEL-C and MEL-M boards. Used to run such a board with the onboard Solo-1 and a PCI TNT2-M64 to great content.

At that time I was using the Coppermine P3-1GHz, with fsb of 133MHz x7.5. Because I forgot about the jumper which was set at 100MHz, 100x7.5 resulting in 750MHz 🤣.

Odd then for it to display 800MHz instead of 750MHz. A 1GHz Coppermine running at 750MHz is a dead giveaway at what the problem is 😜

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