Newsgroup: it.comp.hardware.motherboard
Titolo: Problems with the fucking p3b-f

Hi,
i've got a some problems that are driving me absolutely crazy with the 
p3b-f mobo:
1) first of all, the temp monitor shows that my processor is going on at 
a temperature of about 106-109°C…the problem is that I tried to touch the 
processor and it seems not to be so hot as the monitor shows; besides the 
pIII seems to work perfectly, and I don't believe it should work fine if 
the temperature was really so high!!! (I suppose a processor would be 
definitely fried if one let him go on for hours at 110°C)…the only 
solution I've found, is to disable the temp monitor to avoid that fucking 
beeeeeeep…:(
 
2) occasionally, the mobo don't restart when I restart windows: the 
screen remains blank and the led on monitor continue flashing without any 
other signal…it's necessary to manually reset the system to boot up…it's 
strange that this occurs only occasionally, as I said, and it seems not 
to have links with precise applications or procedure: just occurs 
sometimes!!
3) (the worse problem) the pc suddenly locks-up, usually when I'm surfing 
the web or when I'm surfing some web pages offline, but sometimes it 
locks-up when I'm using other applications; it's strange that it NEVER 
locks-up when I'm playing games!
I really tried everything, and I'm really tired to fight my fucking mobo.
I changed my pIII with another one.
I changed the mobo (the problem about the  restart - see point 2 - seems 
to be solved after this, but I had the new mobo only today and, as the 
problem occurs only occasionally, I'm not really sure!).
I formatted and re-installed the OS three time
I upgraded BIOS to ver. 1004
I upgraded all drivers 
I patched IE5 with all patches I found
I carefully controlled all the cables, all the switches, all the jumpers.
But the temperature is showed again dramatically too hot, and the damned 
pc continue to freeze up without any possibility of closing windows 
(neither CTRL-ALT-CANC, nor ALT-F4…there's no chance to restart it but 
manually press the reset button.)
I'm really going crazy.
I didn't find useful informations surfing the ASUS site, the Intel site, 
and nothing on Deja.com (it seems that many people had problems with the 
temp monitor of the p3b-f, but nobody had my problems!)
I tell you all my configurations, hoping you can help me (eventually 
saying me if there are some known incompatibilities in my system):
PIII500
Asus P3b-f (bios ver 1004)
Ram 64 Mb Dimm PC100
Hd Seagate 2.5 Gb
Hd Maxtor 10.5 Gb 7200 rpm
Cd rom Philips 36x
Deltron Flash 3d (3dfx voodoo 1)
S3 Virge 4mb
Pinnacle Mirò DC10 plus
Eagle Sound 16 bit sound card (a bulk one, i think)
I'm using:
Win98 with the service pack 1 (not the SE!)
IE5.1a
Office 2000
Adobe Premiere 5.1
Photoshop 5.0
Etc..etc…
Please, help me…is there any known bug, issue, or some other fu**ing 
thing you can tell me?
Thank you
Axe
PS I can't try another DIMM at this point: could it be a DIMM problem?
PPS Please, if you can reply in mail  a...@REMOVEMEnull.net (beware the 
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