Help! I'm putting together my Asus CusL2/PIII system and have been experiencing these problems with JUST the mobo, cpu, RAM, DVD-ROM and 2 hard drives installed thus far
with NONE of the other expansion cards yet installed.
Symptoms:
Lock-ups running McAfee VirusScan v 5.10 (works fine on my other systems)
Lock-ups decompressing some compressed files
Lock-ups during the "drives benchmarks" with SANDRA 2000
Inability to run Mushkin HP rev 1.5 2-2-2 at 2-2-2 (must use 3-3-3 setting or system
will freeze during post)
Other instabilities
System Configuration and other details:
AbleCom 300W P/S in SuperMicro SC760A case
Asus CUSL2 version 1.02 with lastest BIOS update version 1002 [9-13-2000]
Intel PIII 800EB Retail-boxed (133 FSB) cooled with Golden Orb for FC-PGA's
256 MB Mushkin High Performance Rev 1.5 PC-133 SDRAM [2 X 128 MB double-sided DIMMS]
Promise Fasttrak66 controller and 2 identical Maxtor model 51024U2 10GB, 7200 RPM, ATA-66
drives in RAID 0 (stiping) configuration, partitioned and formatted with Partition
Magic 5.0 in 3 primary partitions (one is an extended partition with two "logical
partitions", Drives both set as "Masters" and attached to Fasttrak IDE1 and IDE2
channels
Pioneer DVD-115 DVD-ROM Drive as "Master" on Mobo's Primary IDE Controller
Gigabyte GA-GF2560T (GeForce 256) which worked fine in another system with version
....0522 drivers....CURRENTLY using version ....0168 detonator drivers
Windows 98 First Edition (Full version, "clean install" ver ...1998 w/ se updates
TROUBLESHOOTING strategies already tried:
- brought BIOS RAM settings down to 3-3-3
- removed one of the DIMMS and ran system on just ONE 128 MB DIMM
- switched DIMMS and tried again using the OTHER DIMM
- lowered BIOS settings down to 100 MHz bus speed for RAM
- lowered FSB setting to 100MHz so that processor ran at JUST 600MHz
- checked CPU voltage and temperature with BIOS program and "Asus Probe", everything
checked out fine, as did fan speeds and ALL OTHER voltages
- ran scandisk (no disk errors)
- ran Fasttrak "Fastcheck" utility, again, everything checks out fine
- visited Asus and Promise websites and read FAQS and known problems
(I'm aware of the 2 double-sided PC-133 DIMM -4 Row- limitation with the CUSL2)
- verified on Promise's web site that Fasttrak66 supports partitioning and formatting
with Partition Magic (which it does)
- verified all jumpers are correctly set and set all BIOS settings to "setup defaults"
with exceptions mentioned
I should mention that the system DID run for 16 hours running the looping demo of
Dagoth Moor Zoological Gardens with NO system crashes. (System was left unattended
and upon my return the demo was still going).
I'm baffled by the system instabilities mentioned above. It's a pain to decompress
a compressed executable (like when I FIRST tried to install DMZG) to have system either
"freeze" or, as in the case of McAfee, hang and spontaneously reboot. And I haven't even
yet installed the Sigma Design's REALmagic Hollywood Plus Decoder card, ATI TV Wonder, Linksys LNE-100TX NIC or Creative Lab's SoundBlaster Live! MP3+ YET!!!
Any comments or suggestions will be GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!!
Greg
with NONE of the other expansion cards yet installed.
Symptoms:
Lock-ups running McAfee VirusScan v 5.10 (works fine on my other systems)
Lock-ups decompressing some compressed files
Lock-ups during the "drives benchmarks" with SANDRA 2000
Inability to run Mushkin HP rev 1.5 2-2-2 at 2-2-2 (must use 3-3-3 setting or system
will freeze during post)
Other instabilities
System Configuration and other details:
AbleCom 300W P/S in SuperMicro SC760A case
Asus CUSL2 version 1.02 with lastest BIOS update version 1002 [9-13-2000]
Intel PIII 800EB Retail-boxed (133 FSB) cooled with Golden Orb for FC-PGA's
256 MB Mushkin High Performance Rev 1.5 PC-133 SDRAM [2 X 128 MB double-sided DIMMS]
Promise Fasttrak66 controller and 2 identical Maxtor model 51024U2 10GB, 7200 RPM, ATA-66
drives in RAID 0 (stiping) configuration, partitioned and formatted with Partition
Magic 5.0 in 3 primary partitions (one is an extended partition with two "logical
partitions", Drives both set as "Masters" and attached to Fasttrak IDE1 and IDE2
channels
Pioneer DVD-115 DVD-ROM Drive as "Master" on Mobo's Primary IDE Controller
Gigabyte GA-GF2560T (GeForce 256) which worked fine in another system with version
....0522 drivers....CURRENTLY using version ....0168 detonator drivers
Windows 98 First Edition (Full version, "clean install" ver ...1998 w/ se updates
TROUBLESHOOTING strategies already tried:
- brought BIOS RAM settings down to 3-3-3
- removed one of the DIMMS and ran system on just ONE 128 MB DIMM
- switched DIMMS and tried again using the OTHER DIMM
- lowered BIOS settings down to 100 MHz bus speed for RAM
- lowered FSB setting to 100MHz so that processor ran at JUST 600MHz
- checked CPU voltage and temperature with BIOS program and "Asus Probe", everything
checked out fine, as did fan speeds and ALL OTHER voltages
- ran scandisk (no disk errors)
- ran Fasttrak "Fastcheck" utility, again, everything checks out fine
- visited Asus and Promise websites and read FAQS and known problems
(I'm aware of the 2 double-sided PC-133 DIMM -4 Row- limitation with the CUSL2)
- verified on Promise's web site that Fasttrak66 supports partitioning and formatting
with Partition Magic (which it does)
- verified all jumpers are correctly set and set all BIOS settings to "setup defaults"
with exceptions mentioned
I should mention that the system DID run for 16 hours running the looping demo of
Dagoth Moor Zoological Gardens with NO system crashes. (System was left unattended
and upon my return the demo was still going).
I'm baffled by the system instabilities mentioned above. It's a pain to decompress
a compressed executable (like when I FIRST tried to install DMZG) to have system either
"freeze" or, as in the case of McAfee, hang and spontaneously reboot. And I haven't even
yet installed the Sigma Design's REALmagic Hollywood Plus Decoder card, ATI TV Wonder, Linksys LNE-100TX NIC or Creative Lab's SoundBlaster Live! MP3+ YET!!!
Any comments or suggestions will be GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!!
Greg