What model hard  drive?
Are the BIOS current and recognize the PIII?

>I'm contemplating up grading to a Asus P2B-ds w/ PIII 550's just to see
>if it will help, I'm going nuts.

I honestly don't think going dual is the answer to your problems.

HTH,

Jose

Daryl Goddard wrote:

> I've just spent @5K on my dream system.
> Asus MBrd,PIII 500, 512MB Micron RAM, 20G HDD, 6xDVD, Teac CD burner,
> 3Com 10/100PCI NIC, Diamond MX300, Asus TNT AGP vid, USR 56K modem,
> Logitec cordless Kb/mouse.
> The darn thing locks up constantly,crashes indiscriminately, ect...
> I'm running '98 and minium apps (I want to see it stable before I start
> loading apps)
> After several weeks of problems I purchased Ultra-X Pro Diagnostic
> Toolkit, I've ran all the software tests (could'nt get the PCI Hardware
> testing board to work, waiting to get together w/ tech supp)
> Been on the phone w/ tech supp for most of the systems hardware &
> software manufacturers.
> One of the several (I won't bore you)symptoms was my sound card would
> randomly appear & dissappear (during boot up). Some times it worked
> other times not. Tech supp at Diamond suspected the MX300. So I removed
> it & lockups, ect.. seemed to be gone except what appear to be typical
> '98 problems. Now Explorer won't launch.(it launches in safe mode
> though)
> I'm contemplating up grading to a Asus P2B-ds w/ PIII 550's just to see
> if it will help, I'm going nuts. Any & all suggestions will be
> appreciated

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