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Hi, I have an ASUS P2B-S, will it take a total of 512 mb of ram, if I recall
this board had a limit as to what it could take.

I am going to use this board (my old board) for my son at college with and
IDE drive no SCSI drives. Does Windows XP Home install and be stable with
this board?

Thanks again for your help
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

John Smith wrote:

> Hi, I have an ASUS P2B-S, will it take a total of 512 mb of ram, if I recall
> this board had a limit as to what it could take.
>
> I am going to use this board (my old board) for my son at college with and
> IDE drive no SCSI drives. Does Windows XP Home install and be stable with
> this board?
>
> Thanks again for your help
>
>
You should have no problems using 2 256 MB sticks of RAM. To be sure
that you get the right kind go to crucial.com and enter P2B-S and it
will display the correct memory. I think the memory problem only occurs
if you try to use 4 sticks of memory.
I loaded XP Pro on mine and had no problems. I was using SCSI drives
but an IDE drive should work just as well. The only thing to watch out
for is if you have an old BIOS and want to use the COM ports then you
may have to upgrade the BIOS.
 
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Mike thanks for the quick reply, I am using a P3-600 with it, is there any
CPU that is still available that will kick up the speed significantly over
the P3-600? Thanks a lot


"Michael W. Ryder" <mwryder@_worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> John Smith wrote:
>
>> Hi, I have an ASUS P2B-S, will it take a total of 512 mb of ram, if I
>> recall this board had a limit as to what it could take.
>>
>> I am going to use this board (my old board) for my son at college with
>> and IDE drive no SCSI drives. Does Windows XP Home install and be stable
>> with this board?
>>
>> Thanks again for your help
> You should have no problems using 2 256 MB sticks of RAM. To be sure that
> you get the right kind go to crucial.com and enter P2B-S and it will
> display the correct memory. I think the memory problem only occurs if you
> try to use 4 sticks of memory.
> I loaded XP Pro on mine and had no problems. I was using SCSI drives but
> an IDE drive should work just as well. The only thing to watch out for is
> if you have an old BIOS and want to use the COM ports then you may have to
> upgrade the BIOS.
 
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"John Smith" <recons@nospam.com> skrev i en meddelelse
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> Mike thanks for the quick reply, I am using a P3-600 with it, is there any
> CPU that is still available that will kick up the speed significantly over
> the P3-600? Thanks a lot

Hi.

I'm running my P2B-S with 3x256 MB RAM. No probs whatsoever. And it's not
critical which type and brand you're using. I'm running mixed brands.

Re. CPU. I'm running my board with a 1400 MHz Celeron (370-pin socket). Via
a slocket.

Cheers!
 
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Henrik B. wrote:

> "John Smith" <recons@nospam.com> skrev i en meddelelse
> news:h_22d.2986$6V2.2273185@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net...
>
>>Mike thanks for the quick reply, I am using a P3-600 with it, is there any
>>CPU that is still available that will kick up the speed significantly over
>>the P3-600? Thanks a lot
>
>
> Hi.
>
> I'm running my P2B-S with 3x256 MB RAM. No probs whatsoever. And it's not
> critical which type and brand you're using. I'm running mixed brands.
>

The reason I pointed him to Crucial is that there are some 256 MB sticks
that will only show as 128 MB on this board. By ordering from someone
like Crucial he will be able to get the right type.


> Re. CPU. I'm running my board with a 1400 MHz Celeron (370-pin socket). Via
> a slocket.
>

I have been using the Powerleap slocket for a couple of years with an
850 and it has been very reliable.


> Cheers!
>
>
 
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"Michael W. Ryder" <mwryder@_worldnet.att.net> skrev i en meddelelse
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> > Hi.
> >
> > I'm running my P2B-S with 3x256 MB RAM. No probs whatsoever. And it's
not
> > critical which type and brand you're using. I'm running mixed brands.
> >
>
> The reason I pointed him to Crucial is that there are some 256 MB sticks
> that will only show as 128 MB on this board. By ordering from someone
> like Crucial he will be able to get the right type.

Yes, he HAS to buy dual-sided 256 MB modules. Duh! I forgot about that. But
with dual-sided RAM, the board is good with any brand.

Cheers!
 
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John Smith schrieb:

> Mike thanks for the quick reply, I am using a P3-600 with it, is there any
> CPU that is still available that will kick up the speed significantly over
> the P3-600? Thanks a lot

Look here:
http://homepage.hispeed.ch/rscheidegger/p2b_procupgrade_faq.html

Stephan
--
Meine Andere Seite: http://stephan.win31.de/
PC#6: i440BX, 1xP3-500E, 512 MiB, 18+80 GB, R9k AGP 64 MiB, 110W
This is a SCSI-inside, Legacy-plus, TCPA-free computer :)
 
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Thanks for all the replies! One more thing, if I got one of those slockets
and use a faster processor, is there a minimum mb revision to all its use, I
have a revision 1.02, this revision has been limited in some ways. Thanks
again


"Henrik B." <saab@_NOSPAM_tdcadsl.dk> wrote in message
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>
> "Michael W. Ryder" <mwryder@_worldnet.att.net> skrev i en meddelelse
> news😀e42d.373077$OB3.17163@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>
>> > Hi.
>> >
>> > I'm running my P2B-S with 3x256 MB RAM. No probs whatsoever. And it's
> not
>> > critical which type and brand you're using. I'm running mixed brands.
>> >
>>
>> The reason I pointed him to Crucial is that there are some 256 MB sticks
>> that will only show as 128 MB on this board. By ordering from someone
>> like Crucial he will be able to get the right type.
>
> Yes, he HAS to buy dual-sided 256 MB modules. Duh! I forgot about that.
> But
> with dual-sided RAM, the board is good with any brand.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
 
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Stephan, Thanks for the great link, thats a big help! Mike


"Stephan Grossklass" <sgrokla-nospam04q2@yahoo.de> wrote in message
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> John Smith schrieb:
>
>> Mike thanks for the quick reply, I am using a P3-600 with it, is there
>> any
>> CPU that is still available that will kick up the speed significantly
>> over
>> the P3-600? Thanks a lot
>
> Look here:
> http://homepage.hispeed.ch/rscheidegger/p2b_procupgrade_faq.html
>
> Stephan
> --
> Meine Andere Seite: http://stephan.win31.de/
> PC#6: i440BX, 1xP3-500E, 512 MiB, 18+80 GB, R9k AGP 64 MiB, 110W
> This is a SCSI-inside, Legacy-plus, TCPA-free computer :)
 
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"John Smith" <recons@nospam.com> skrev i en meddelelse
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> Thanks for all the replies! One more thing, if I got one of those
> slockets and use a faster processor, is there a minimum mb revision to all
> its use, I have a revision 1.02, this revision has been limited in some
> ways. Thanks again

I also got the Rev. 1.02 - no probs at all. But I'd recommend the PowerLeap
adapter....

Cheers!
 
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Hey thanks I just went to Powerleaps web site and sent them an email. Looks
like I can get a 1.4 Celeron to fit this board, will that be much faster
than the P3-600? Thanks for the help, this board is always right on. Mike


"Henrik B." <saab@_NOSPAM_tdcadsl.dk> wrote in message
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>
> "John Smith" <recons@nospam.com> skrev i en meddelelse
> news:wCp2d.2604$Of4.3075448@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net...
>> Thanks for all the replies! One more thing, if I got one of those
>> slockets and use a faster processor, is there a minimum mb revision to
>> all its use, I have a revision 1.02, this revision has been limited in
>> some ways. Thanks again
>
> I also got the Rev. 1.02 - no probs at all. But I'd recommend the
> PowerLeap adapter....
>
> Cheers!
>
 
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John Smith schrieb:

> Thanks for all the replies! One more thing, if I got one of those slockets
> and use a faster processor, is there a minimum mb revision to all its use, I
> have a revision 1.02, this revision has been limited in some ways.

You'd need the Powerleap adapter in this case. With a 1.4 GHz Celeron
and a decent amount of RAM (three sticks of 256 megs each shouldn't be a
problem at 100 MHz, 4 are quite likely to work as well), this should
become a nice speedy machine again. While you're at it, you may want to
get a fast hard drive, which can boost system performance significantly
- I'd suggest either something like a Promise Ultra100 TX2 (at least
2.00.0.14 BIOS and 2.00.0.42 drivers) plus, say, a Samsung P80 drive (a
SP0812N would probably do), or a smaller (say, 18 gig) Cheetah 15K.3 to
be run off the integrated SCSI HA, or possibly both (the small and fast
Cheetah for system/apps and the bigger IDE drive for data 'n such).

Stephan
--
Meine Andere Seite: http://stephan.win31.de/
PC#6: i440BX, 1xP3-500E, 512 MiB, 18+80 GB, R9k AGP 64 MiB, 110W
This is a SCSI-inside, Legacy-plus, TCPA-free computer :)
 
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John Smith schrieb:

> Hey thanks I just went to Powerleaps web site and sent them an email. Looks
> like I can get a 1.4 Celeron to fit this board, will that be much faster
> than the P3-600?

In anything remotely CPU intensive, most certainly. Expect something
like a factor of 2 in such applications.

Stephan
--
Meine Andere Seite: http://stephan.win31.de/
PC#6: i440BX, 1xP3-500E, 512 MiB, 18+80 GB, R9k AGP 64 MiB, 110W
This is a SCSI-inside, Legacy-plus, TCPA-free computer :)
 
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Thanks again for your help!

"Stephan Grossklass" <sgrokla-nospam04q2@yahoo.de> wrote in message
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> John Smith schrieb:
>
>> Hey thanks I just went to Powerleaps web site and sent them an email.
>> Looks
>> like I can get a 1.4 Celeron to fit this board, will that be much faster
>> than the P3-600?
>
> In anything remotely CPU intensive, most certainly. Expect something
> like a factor of 2 in such applications.
>
> Stephan
> --
> Meine Andere Seite: http://stephan.win31.de/
> PC#6: i440BX, 1xP3-500E, 512 MiB, 18+80 GB, R9k AGP 64 MiB, 110W
> This is a SCSI-inside, Legacy-plus, TCPA-free computer :)
 
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