Here is what happens:
I've went ahead and installed new P3 850E on Asus P3B-F (bios v.1008 beta). At bootime, it gave me a freq. selection of 700MHz and 850Mhz. I chose 850, saved and rebooted. After reboot i went into bios again to monitor the temperature for few minutes. It was running at 44ºC. I then robooted again and let it load Windows. It froze at about 99% (when loading last program into taskbar). I rebooted again just to find no post and no memory count. It freezes right after video init. and displays a blinking cursor on screen. That's all.
At that time i stripped the system to bare minimun, reseated vga and ram. Still same thing (no post, blinking cursor). I then removed the cpu and installed it on another Asus P3B-F i have in my server with bios v1006. Extact same thing happens except it did not let me see bios screen at all. Just blinking cursor.
At this point, i though the cpu had fried but willing to give it one more chance, i ran over to my buddie's house. He has Tyan Slot1 board. Pop the chip in and it works like a champ !
Both my P3B-F's work great with Katmai based chips.
To make my story shorter: Intel P3 850E on Asus P3B-F, no post, just blinking cursor on screen. Single beep from board at bootime and the LED is green. Tested on 2 different P3B-F's with different vga, ram and p/s.
All components working when used seperately.
If anyone has any ideas, i would greatly appreciate it if you share it with me.
Thank You.
I've went ahead and installed new P3 850E on Asus P3B-F (bios v.1008 beta). At bootime, it gave me a freq. selection of 700MHz and 850Mhz. I chose 850, saved and rebooted. After reboot i went into bios again to monitor the temperature for few minutes. It was running at 44ºC. I then robooted again and let it load Windows. It froze at about 99% (when loading last program into taskbar). I rebooted again just to find no post and no memory count. It freezes right after video init. and displays a blinking cursor on screen. That's all.
At that time i stripped the system to bare minimun, reseated vga and ram. Still same thing (no post, blinking cursor). I then removed the cpu and installed it on another Asus P3B-F i have in my server with bios v1006. Extact same thing happens except it did not let me see bios screen at all. Just blinking cursor.
At this point, i though the cpu had fried but willing to give it one more chance, i ran over to my buddie's house. He has Tyan Slot1 board. Pop the chip in and it works like a champ !
Both my P3B-F's work great with Katmai based chips.
To make my story shorter: Intel P3 850E on Asus P3B-F, no post, just blinking cursor on screen. Single beep from board at bootime and the LED is green. Tested on 2 different P3B-F's with different vga, ram and p/s.
All components working when used seperately.
If anyone has any ideas, i would greatly appreciate it if you share it with me.
Thank You.
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