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Date:	Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:25:19 PDT
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Chip rev. identification for an ASUS mb

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I'm hoping we have some readers here who are well up on hardware
topics, otherwise I may have to take this to the h/w forum on
Compuserve or (shudder) the noisegroups.

If anyone has worked with the ASUS P3B-F, I'm trying to confirm
that it can accomodate an Intel P-3 1Ghz. CPU. The Spec.s on
the ASUS site appear to be insufficient, incomplete, or possibly
not up to date. According to what is there, the max. speed CPU
any rev. of this board could handle was 800 mhz. But my former
system builder, who purchased several components for me and then
disappeared before delivering them, had told me this combination
posed no problems. He was very seldom wrong about stuff like
that, if ever.

One source recently wrote me as follows:

the P3B-F motherboard will only support up to PIII 800 BUT if
you turn the dip switches
off and put the JEN on 2,3 then there is a good chance that
you can run the PIII 1 GIG slot
1/100 mhz. This is per the technician from Asus.

I am not much of a gambler, though, so a "good chance" is
probably not good enough. (What's a JEN ?)

Another source wrote me that there were some revisions to the
440BX chipset on a particular rev. of this mb, one of which
allowed it to accomodate a 1Ghz. CPU. So I'd like to find out if
that is accurate, and if so, which board rev. ? (The replacement
P3B-F mb I've just acquired is rev. 1.04). Is there some way to
determine which 440BX chip rev. is on this board ? (Don't say
something like a SCANPCI util. -- I'm not going to put a system
together just to interrogate this chip !) Didn't notice anything
on the chip itself, but maybe I need to look at it with a
magnifying glass . . . .

*Someone* has been down this road before, and knows the answer.

TIA.

Jordan

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