Re: What is the best Asus mb for intel PIII Tualatin 1400

In article <44448bf6$0$851$edfadb0f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Bo Monberg
Weber" <no@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi

I have been running my Tualatin 1400 on a Asus P3B-F version 1.03 and 1.04
with a slotket but they both became very unstable after a peiode of few
month and eventually wouldn't boot the system. And further more with a lot
of lost clusters on Harddisks. Switched the Tulatin with a PIII 400Mhz (
:-(( ) - restored lost data and everything i fine again.

So I am looking for a new "home" for the Tualatin 1400 (I hope that it is
not damaged - and actually this is the cause to the problem). I was thinking
of a version of TUSL2 ?! any other suggestions?

Bo Monberg

http://web.archive.org/web/20041022001910/http://www.asus.com/inside/Techref/celerontualatin.htm

Model BIOS
TUA266 1004.003 <-- AGP slot no good :-(
TUSC 1011
TUSI-M 1011
TUSL2 1011 (Total memory limit 512MB)
TUSL2-C 1011
TUSL2-M 1011
TUEG-VM 1011
TUEP2-M 1011
TUV4X 1003 <-- I bought one but never used it. (P2B-S instead)
TUWE-M 1001

This list might be for the FSB133 processors.

http://web.archive.org/web/20041022002909/http://www.asus.com/inside/Techref/p3tualatin.htm

Same as the above list, plus TR-DLS and TR-DLSR server motherboards.
They have Serverworks chipsets.

Those two pages do not include the use of slockets and slot 1
motherboards. There are more combinations possible with older
slot 1 motherboards and an appropriate slocket type.

It is a tough choice. The most recent versions of 815 chipsets
would be winners, except for the maximum memory limitation. The
sad part is, the 815 could support a 512MB stick of memory, but
the total system memory was limited to 512MB, presumably for
some evil marketing reason.

One of the reasons I picked up a TUV4X, is it supports more
memory. Unfortunately, if you do a Google search on "686B bug",
you'll discover that the TUV4X is not the perfect motherboard.
There is a fix for the bug, but I'm not 100% sure it fixes all
motherboards in the field. I think if you have a PCI IDE card
that you can plug into the board and use, then the TUV4X might
be worth considering. I would not use the Southbridge IDE ports
because of the 686B bug.

Otherwise, find a motherboard with an 815xx chipset and
live with the 512MB total memory limit. There is some info
on vintage Intel chipsets here:

http://developer.intel.com/design/chipsets/mature/index.htm

Paul
.

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