New P4 Motherboard

Well, my ol' P4T-E apparently bit the dust. When I left my house this morning, my system was working fine. When I came home about 6 hours later, my screen was black. It accepted no input. I reset it. Nothing. After an hour of debugging, I broke it down to the BARE essentials (a speaker, a PSU, and a motherboard), still nothing. Therefore, my conclusion is that it is dead.

Any suggestions on a new P4 motherboard? I am using a Pentium 4 1.8A (northwood-C), so it has a 100/400mhz bus, so no 533 or 800 motherboards. A Rambus board would be best, but since those don't seem to be common anymore, I suppose a DDR board would also be acceptable.

Perhaps an Abit TH7-II or TH7-II Raid (assuming you can find one). That way you could still use the same cpu and ram.

I am going to try for an RMA first -- it should still be within the Asus 3 year warranty... plus, I actually didn't break it this time.

Assuming that I cannot get an RMA, and I gain access to DDR RAM, what would be a good board choice for that CPU?

Poke, poke?

For a cheap ddr board look into the asus p4s series.

Also, as said, the Abit TH7-II or TH7-II Raid will use rd-ram, so you can save some money on the ddr there.

Well, I have a theory...
Motherboards just don't die. Something has to happen to them to cause them to cease functioning. I personally think a moth got sucked into the fan, and it splattered over some key traces, causing the board to malfunction. In order to clean the board completely of dust and guts, I rinsed it in alcohol; that is, I dumped alcohol on every part of it, and let it drain into a basin. I then rinsed it with clean water (we recently installed a series of inline water filters) in order to remove the grime that the alcohol picked up (there was a lot). I will let it dry, then see if it works. I am worried that whatever malfunction occured, it screwed up the board permanently. Otherwise, I will get a new board.

AntmanMike said:

Any suggestions on a new P4 motherboard? I am using a Pentium 4 1.8A (northwood-C), so it has a 100/400mhz bus, so no 533 or 800 motherboards. A Rambus board would be best, but since those don't seem to be common anymore, I suppose a DDR board would also be acceptable.

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From memory most 533/800 boards would also support 400 as well, it would just be a matter of checking the specs on the manufacturers. From memory the IC7 series supports that and I would recommend that :>