P2B-F is a good board

The best BIOS website for Asus motherboards is Asus Germany.
Any Asus bios updates after the board ceased production are usually
called "Beta" forever. Don't let that bother you!

ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIOS/Slot_I/INTEL_Chipset/i440BX/

the latest bios for  P2B-F ACPI BIOS 1014 beta 01

By the way.

Your board can accept a Celeron 1000 MHz (About $70US) in a proper
coppermine ready slotket adapter.  Thats a 100MHZ part so be sure you
have PC100 or PC133 RAM if you do that.  Actually RAM varies
considerably in internal design, chipdesign and quality so while the
P2B-F is pretty forgiving not all RAM will work especially the 256MB
sticks  www.crucial.com and other large memory companies have
selectors that list exact part numbers. These days a piece of high
quality 256MB is about $34US including shipping.

Mark Paulson

>Date:    Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:41:23 -0500
>From:    Robert Turnbull <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Asus P2B-F BIOS upgrade
>
>I built a home computer a couple of years ago - a Pentium II 400Mhz.
>The motherboard is an Asus P2B-F - Bios Rev. 1009.A (03/04/99).
>
>I have a Quantum 7200 10 GB hard drive on the system, and have bought a
>Maxtor 7200 30 GB hard drive to install as a slave.
>
>My problem is that the BIOS won't auto-detect the new hard drive. It lists
>almost the correct size, but the number of cylinders and heads is way off.
>It seems to me that I need a BIOS update so that the BIOS will recognize
>the 30 GB Maxtor accurately.
>
>I know that there have been (at least) updates 1011, and 1012 but have been
>unable to locate them.
>
>The Asus site doesn't show any BIOS updates for the P2B-F motherboard. I
>have searched the Net - no luck - even Driverguide did not help. Also many
>of the Asus web site addresses that I find give a "This page not found"
>message in IE 5.5
>
>Does anyone have any thoughts? I would be grateful for any suggestions.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
>
>Robert Turnbull, Toronto, Canada

>
>Date:    Wed, 5 Dec 2001 19:43:08 -0500
>From:    Winston <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Asus P2B-F BIOS upgrade
>
>Try this site. I too, have an ASUS mb and keep losing the ASUS site.
>(although I think they keep moving)
>
>http://download.asus.com.tw/mb_dl_menu.asp
>
>I just looked and they have an update to revision 1013a
>Hope this helps
>
>Winston Pike

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