It's a western digital & yes the bios is current (1008) & recognizes
PIII, also the reason I'm thinking of stepping up has to do w/ not
wanting to mess anymore w/ what I have now & the guy's I bought the sys
from are making me a great deal & stuff is coming out to start taking
advantage of SMP.

"Jose E. Dominguez" wrote:
>
> 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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