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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RagTimeBand who wrote (5491)	1/22/1999 9:03:00 PM
From: Paul K	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

The ASUS P2B-F increases PCI connectors from 4 to 5, 1 less ISA slot, and RAM slots from 3 to 4. The mention of the Celeron may just be updating of the marketing materials. I think the other items you talk about are just publication oversite, but you never know. asus.com The web site has been VERY slow lately, I sent them an email to complain. ----------- Something to keep in mind here is this board (like the Abit BH6) has 8 I/O card connectors, so you will need a chassis with that many slots. If I put an BH6 in my chassis I will give up access to the AGP slot, but I originally planed to place the 7 slot P2B-L in my chassis anyway.... now I just need decide about attempting overclocking this board without soft menus <g> -------- They issued a BIOS update for the P2B series recently: bx2i1007.zip P2B BIOS Ver. 1007. 1/08/99 Update comments: 1. Fix for Y2K RTC test failure with ami2000.exe program. 2. Added AT/ATX power supply detection for P2B-B. 3. Added CPU Microcode Update support for 653h (dB-1) & 1632h (P6T dB0) CPUs. 4. Support Legacy USB Suspend/Resume. 5. Support new revision of W977 super IO chips. 6. Fix for some LAN cards can't be assigned with IRQ9. 7. Fix for NT5.0 HCT 'RTC power up' test failure. 8. Added "CDROM,A,C" boot sequence. 9. Added Katmai processor support. 10. Revised Y2K support. 11. Fixed RTC resume failure from standby sometimes.