xenthar I post in FAQ link to ASUS FTP site where you can get last beta bios. Try it!
Yo rgt, thanx for the link.
I've got good news and bad. The 1010 beta bios worked! I patched it and to my surprise it now contains the p3 microcode! There's no "bios update data incorrect (CPUID=00000673)" anymore, for the p3 at least.
However,
I still get crashes! The microcodes were not the (only) problem :x.
The system crashes whenever I
- open someones webcam in MSN
- play a video file in winamp (but the same file plays ok in mplayer2)
- run 3d mark 99 max
Beside these crashes, window (re)drawing becomes crippled. I wasn't able to post this reply while using the pIII because both Opera and Mozilla would fuck up the windows and I couldn't find the submit button...
The weird thing is, nothing like this happens with the Celeron inserted, even with the new bios. Would it have to do with SSE instructions? Perhaps the pIII is faulty. I've never tried it in another system so I don't know yet. I'll check that some day. And yet, Prime95 runs fine. All crashes are video related. Turning "video acceleration" off in Display Properties/Advanced/Performance doesn't change a thing. Perhaps the VGA (Asus V3000 nVidia riva 128, newest drivers, bios is quite old) doesn't like the pIII.
Whatever the case, there's little I can do now. If you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them. Anyway, I enjoyed your warmth.
Yo rgt, thanx for the link.
I've got good news and bad. The 1010 beta bios worked! I patched it and to my surprise it now contains the p3 microcode! There's no "bios update data incorrect (CPUID=00000673)" anymore, for the p3 at least.
However,
I still get crashes! The microcodes were not the (only) problem :x.
The system crashes whenever I
- open someones webcam in MSN
- play a video file in winamp (but the same file plays ok in mplayer2)
- run 3d mark 99 max
Beside these crashes, window (re)drawing becomes crippled. I wasn't able to post this reply while using the pIII because both Opera and Mozilla would fuck up the windows and I couldn't find the submit button...
The weird thing is, nothing like this happens with the Celeron inserted, even with the new bios. Would it have to do with SSE instructions? Perhaps the pIII is faulty. I've never tried it in another system so I don't know yet. I'll check that some day. And yet, Prime95 runs fine. All crashes are video related. Turning "video acceleration" off in Display Properties/Advanced/Performance doesn't change a thing. Perhaps the VGA (Asus V3000 nVidia riva 128, newest drivers, bios is quite old) doesn't like the pIII.
Whatever the case, there's little I can do now. If you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them. Anyway, I enjoyed your warmth.
grz, xenthar