all right....i am sending this p.o.s. cubx back.

[dirtweasel]

i have had nothing but problems with this board since i got it.

it randomly won't reboot, it randomly goes into bios and resets the cpu speed, it won't go past 1.65 volts even at default cpu speed (i am using a 566 celeron) and i have had various voltage errors popping up. now, everytime i download something, it hard locks.

i have never had so many problems with a piece of computer equipment in my life. i don't know if the problem lies with the bios (i am using the new beta bios) not being compatible with windows 98se or windows me's acpi bios or what.....but what a pain in the butt.

that being said, what board are you guys having good luck with these days? i am very tempted to go back to my trusty abit brand, but would like to know what 370 board out there will give me stable overclocking (i had this chip running at 892.5 on my old abit with a generic slotkey) and ata66?

thanks,

dirty

 

[JismJim]

DirtCritter: I hear ya brother, I also have this ASUS CUBX board and I would have joined you in lighting it on fire last weekend. I installed the board on a friday night, took about 3.5 minutes and did'nt have it running stable until that Sunday night!

I configured it for it's so called "jumperfree" setting-and the I was booting up with a PIII433!?? Well I went into the dip switches(this is better than old fashioned jumpers) and set the core speed, multiplers etc. etc. myself-that solved that problem.

Turns out that was small stuff. Just look at my previous posts to see the myriad problems with IRQ's etc. The board has been rock solid since and at least it "works" compared to these lousy Intel I820/Rambus MB's out there that don't work and WON'T work.

Maybe you got a bad board, I don't know, but I know how ya feel. Asus is good about standing behind it's products.

Jismjim

 

[dirtweasel]

thanks for the reply jim.

were/are you having any sort of voltage problems? i have no problem with setting the jumpers (except that the 566 needs 8.5 and the jumpers don't go that high) but i think that voltage is this boards main problem.

are you overclocking??

dirty

 

[JismJim]

DirtCritter: Naw I'm not too big on overclocking. I haven't had any problem with voltage but then again I am set at the default for my processor. My problems were in IRQ allocation, and the fact that the so-called "jumperless" feature didn't seem to work for me. I also find it ironic that the "jumperless" feature is selected or de-selected via a jumper!!! Goes to show that some features of PC architecture will always be with us.

Like I said before, if you had asked me about this board last Saturday It wouldn't have been printable, but by last sunday night all was well. It's been almost a week now and it's been rock solid. However it's also been nearly a week since I e-mailed ASUS with no response! And yes I e-mailed the North American division, not Taiwan.

This brings up another question, anyone join in that would like to take a stab at this one: Why is that there are no MAJOR USA manufacturers of motherboards? I mean we have CPU fabs, some memory fabs etc. How is it that we are the aknowledged technology leader and there is no domestic supplier of the most important component in your computer, the motherboard?

Jismjim

 

[mschell]

Ever notice how relatively cheap motherboards seem to be. You can hardly get a cheesy video card for the price you pay for a top of the line motherboard. This translates into very tight profit margins on motherboards. Taiwanese manufacturing concerns do not have the extra overhead caused by environmental regulation compliance US manufactures have to deal with. It also cost much less overall to keep the average Taiwanese worker on the job. Many of the components used on motherboards are manufactured in the far east.
Fabricating chips is not as material and labor intensive but Intel and AMD still send the chips overseas to be mated with the pin out interface. I do believe Super Micro motherboards are/were? manufactured in the US.
As for Asus reluctance to deal with your Tech support problem - MB manufactures do not sell directly to end users, they sell boards to dealers who in turn sell them to you. It's the dealers responsibility to provide support on the products it sells, not the manufacture. If your dealer seems to be clueless to the problems you have then choosing a smarter more helpful one the next time you buy hardware might save you some grief. - M.