ASUS P4PE Motherboard Questions?

[JonathanF]

I just installed my ASUS P4PE Motherboard with the Intel P4 2.8 GHZ CPU and everything is working fine except for the following.

I installed all of the Software and Utility Software from the ASUS CD-ROM Disk including the USB 2.0 Device Drivers.

Are all six of the Motherboard's USB Ports Version 2.0?

The onboard NIC shows up in Device Manager as a "1394 Net Adaper", and it does not work.

When you type in at the Command Prompt "IPCONFIG /ALL", nothing happens.

I cannot use the Computer's Keyboard Space Key to automatically boot up the Computer.

I had to install an old 3COM "3C905TX" NIC Card to get onto the Internet.

Even though the Motherboard will support up to PC-2700 (333) DDR-RAM, will I gain any benefit if I use my Kingston Hyper-X PC-3500 DDR RAM?

Should I go back and use my old Kingston PC-2700 (DDR 333) RAM, and hold onto or sell the Kingston PC-3500 DDR-RAM?

Does anyone have any ideas on the resolutions to these problems?

Jonathan

 

[Prong]

Yes all 6 USB ports are 2.0 As far as your "1394 adapter", that's for the onboard firewire. As I stated in my reply to your other post yesterday, you have to change the keyboard jumper (see page 2-16 of your manual) to enable the wake on keyboard feature. Your PC 3500 memory will be beneficial if you overclock. I'm running Corsair PC3500 in mine and I'm quite fond of it. Which version of Broadcom do you have? The 4401 (10/100) or 5702 (Gigabit)? It has to be enabled in the BIOS for Windows to recognize it before you can use it. If that's done, it should show up as a PCI communications device--then you can install the drivers from the disk.

 

[jkirkman]

Originally posted by: JonathanF
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The onboard NIC shows up in Device Manager as a "1394 Net Adaper", and it does not work.

Jonathan

Prong is dead on target.

Win tried to config your onboard firewire as your nic, which explains the poor networking performance.

Make sure you have the drivers for the CORRECT Broadcom chip handy, delete the "1394 NetAdapter" device out of your Device Manager in Win, and reboot.

On reboot, go immediately into the Bios. DISable the onboard Firewire (just until you have your NIC installed, after that you can turn it back on), and ENable your onboard LAN. Save and exit and alow this reboot to go all the way into windows. Win should now see the Broadcom chip as the NIC without getting confused.

YMMV, but it worked for me on my P4PE w/Win XP Pro.

I had only intended to use the onboard temporarily, but have been happy with the 5702's performance.