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- Aug 29, 2002
Okay...
Found an old (didn't have a cmos battery in it, so found one and put it in) P4C800-E board and paired it up with a Precott 3.2, a duall DDR set of OCZ ram and other bits incl a 64Mb AGP card.
Booted fine, setup the BIOS the way I wanted it, and did the XP-Home install. No prob's. Installed the .inf, sound, Intel Pro Lan stuff off the CD and found that the onboard NIC was showing a problem.
Tried inserting my flashdrive, and no matter which port... the light on the drive would momentarily come on as I slid it in, but would then go straight off and stay off.
Thought the BIOS might be buggy, so downloaded 1023 I think it was, and flashed that (using the Asus Update tool). Still didn't sort out either the USB or NIC issue, but now, the board won't post unless I clear cmos each time.
Do that and hit F2... every time it will go straight into windows. Try hitting F1... make some changes and it won't post.
I'm thinking I should use Afudos and re-flash, maybe with a different BIOS, but would value any input, as I'd really like the onboard NIC & USB ports to be functional.
+++ edit... wierdest thing... I disabled the onboard NIC in windows, and turned the machine off. Put in a Netware based NIC and she started up just fine. USB even works. Wierd.
Still hoping someone might have had this sort of bother and found an answer though.
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Found an old (didn't have a cmos battery in it, so found one and put it in) P4C800-E board and paired it up with a Precott 3.2, a duall DDR set of OCZ ram and other bits incl a 64Mb AGP card.
Booted fine, setup the BIOS the way I wanted it, and did the XP-Home install. No prob's. Installed the .inf, sound, Intel Pro Lan stuff off the CD and found that the onboard NIC was showing a problem.
Tried inserting my flashdrive, and no matter which port... the light on the drive would momentarily come on as I slid it in, but would then go straight off and stay off.
Thought the BIOS might be buggy, so downloaded 1023 I think it was, and flashed that (using the Asus Update tool). Still didn't sort out either the USB or NIC issue, but now, the board won't post unless I clear cmos each time.
Do that and hit F2... every time it will go straight into windows. Try hitting F1... make some changes and it won't post.
I'm thinking I should use Afudos and re-flash, maybe with a different BIOS, but would value any input, as I'd really like the onboard NIC & USB ports to be functional.
+++ edit... wierdest thing... I disabled the onboard NIC in windows, and turned the machine off. Put in a Netware based NIC and she started up just fine. USB even works. Wierd.
Still hoping someone might have had this sort of bother and found an answer though.
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