just some questions about older mobo's

OK im building a lil server box out of a p4 2.4b and i have 2 asus boards...

a Sony (Asus p4s533-vm)
and a P4T-E

now i am having problems with the sony asus board, when it boots it reports an error of "hard ware monitor found an error. Enter power setup menu for details" now when i got to the hardware monitor nothing is out of norm... voltages are good, and the fan speeds are fine along with temps are good. so im baffeled with this mobo... i have tried to replace the cmos battery... clear the cmos.... heck the board even has 2 ATX12v (p4) connectors and i plugged 2 p4 connectors in the board at the same time both with power to no avail...

so im considering of using my 2.4b in the P4t-e but im not entirely sure it will be able to run it. currently it has a 2.0a and 512mb of 800mhz rambus ram...

so any ways it would be nice if i could like update the sony bios to an actual P4S533-vm bios but the last oem asus board i updated to the actual boards bios didnt go so well... i could get into the bios but it just would NOT boot.... or if i could just fix the problem on the p4s533-vm that would be great.

Disable all hardware monitoring by setting it to "Ignore".

And do you have latest BIOS for that Sony/Asus mobo?

UglyChild said:

Disable all hardware monitoring by setting it to "Ignore".

And do you have latest BIOS for that Sony/Asus mobo?

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tried the ignore.... and as for bios i have the latest from their site to no avail... and the board is not a P4S533-VM but its a P4S533-VX..... N e ways i decided that i should try out the P4T-E and make sure the 2.4b would run at 133 x 18 before i went to go try a VM bios on the VX ( 133x 18 is normal but the p4t-e mobo doesnt officially support 133fsb so i had to "over clock it") n e ways i set it to 133 fsb and a ram multiplier of 3 instad of 4 so the ram would stay at its normal 800mhz instead of being at 1066mhz... N e ways i just ended up using that board with the 2.4b and she works like a charm... wire management came out cleaner also... connectors were in better spots.

never got to using a VM bios on the VX... dont see any reason to, as it stands i have more memory bandwidth then the sony board with DDR 266 in single channel, pluss theres not tons of extra onboard crap on the p4t-e... its going ot be a server box so no audio is needed and its a full atx board so more pci slots over the VX.