P4 3.06 533 HT in P4T533 MB

[MSHOME]

Ok I am about to buy a P4 3.06 gig 533 HT processor and put it into my
P4T533. SOMEWHERE I was told that this combination MAY not work in my
motherboard, something to do with the processor drawing 10 amps and the
voltage regulator NOT being up to the task. IS THIS TRUE? Any horror
stories with this combo I should know about? Thanks, Mik

 

[Ronald Cole]

Ok I am about to buy a P4 3.06 gig 533 HT processor and put it into my
P4T533. SOMEWHERE I was told that this combination MAY not work in my
motherboard, something to do with the processor drawing 10 amps and the
voltage regulator NOT being up to the task. IS THIS TRUE? Any horror
stories with this combo I should know about? Thanks, Mik

Works fine in my Dec 2002 board.

 

[Clock´n Roll]

I´m about to put a P4 2,8/533 into a 100/133 Asus P4B266 board.
Should I be concerned...?

 

[MSHOME]

I dont believe you do have any reason, I was told that the problem only
existed in the 3.06, as it required more amperage. Mike

 

[MSHOME]

Ron, does your chipset chip have a fan or heatsink on it? Thanks for your
reply, Mike

 

[Peacekeeper]

I think you all correct the asus site says you need at least revision 1.03
of the board. Maybe earlier revisions had voltage regulator issues. this
only for the 3,06 533 cpu all others shown ALL PCBs ok

You also need bios 1005 min and iaa 2.2.2.
Tony

 

[Clock´n Roll]

Thanks, Mike.

 

[MSHOME]

Tony where on the ASUS site did you find that? Thanks, Mike

 

[MSHOME]

Tony, Thanks I found it at the ASUS site, Mike

I think you all correct the asus site says you need at least revision 1.03
of the board. Maybe earlier revisions had voltage regulator issues. this
only for the 3,06 533 cpu all others shown ALL PCBs ok

You also need bios 1005 min and iaa 2.2.2.
Tony
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[MSHOME]

YEA baby!!! I have revision 1.03, for once I have the correct revision!
My last ASUS board was a 1.01 (my P2B-S baby), and I was unable to move up
to far with RAM or CPUs... Thanks for your help guys, Thanks, Tony, Mike

 

[Peacekeeper]

Ah the p2b days, you could move that series up in terms of cpu with a few
tweaks re using an asus s370-d card and voltage on the card set to 1.8v but
then again thats old news. Glad we could help.

 

[Hawkeye]

I wonder why IAA is a requirement going to 3.06. any ideas?











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ASUS P4T533 / P4 2.8 @ 3.0 GHz
ASUS Ti 4600 / 1 Gig 1066MHz
RAMBUS / Audigy 2 / XP Home

 

[Mike Connor]

Funny I thought that (IAA) was odd myself, being software related. Unless
it has something to do with the chipset instructions? Mike

 

[Ronald Cole]

Ron, does your chipset chip have a fan or heatsink on it? Thanks for your
reply, Mike

A sleeve bearing fan... which seized up and died after seven months. I
had to replace it with a ball-bearing fan.

 

[Barry Watzman]

It's not. I have systems running here just fine (200 gig WD IDE hard
drive) without it.

 

[James Ross]

I just upgraded from a 2.4g 533 to the 3.06g 533 last night (2/7/04)
and I am not too sure yet if I am pleased or not, as I have had some
trouble. With the 2.4g, my system was rock-solid steady for well over
a year.

P4T533 Version 1.03 / 512megs (2 RIMMS) / nVidia GeForce FX 5600 / SB
Live 5.1 / RAID 0 (2 x 120g HDs) / 450W PS.

Running Windows 2000 Pro (SP 4)

Downloaded and installed the 1006 BIOS. Reset the bios using the
jumper on the motherboard.

1) At first kept detecting the audio device until I found that setting
buried under PCI devices and disabled it. (I forgot there are two
audio settings in the bios to disable)

2) At first system was very unstable. It randomly re-booted several
times on its own (after flashing the blue screen for a second or two).
Tried the 1005 version of the BIOS but since nothing changed went back
to the 1006.

3) After a bit of research it appears that MS says only Windows XP and
above officially support HyperThreading. So, I DISABLED
HyperThreading since I am running Windows 2000. I thought that was
it. It appeared to be running stable, but …

4) After a couple hours system randomly reset itself and re-booted
ONCE. Well, that is one time too many. So, I set the RAM speed back
to Normal instead of Turbo. So far, since I did that, it has not
locked up or rebooted yet and that has been about 4 or 5 hours now.

I'll be leaving it on 24x7 until I am convinced that it is stable. It
never used to lock-up or reboot randomly and since I haven't installed
any new drivers or software if it does so now, I am saying the 3.06
and the P4T533 are not quite compatible. We will see.

I would also like to hear anyone else's experience with the 3.06 /
P4T533 combination. If anyone wants me to give an update in a few
days I will gladly do so.

JR

 

[James Ross]

Update: I have re-installed the P4 2.4G / 533mhz back on my ASUS
P4T533. I could not get the P4 3.06G stable on this motherboard. I
tried to tweak the settings with some success. However, I left it on
last night and when I got up this morning it had re-booted. Stability
is more important than speed to me and with the 2.4G this motherboard
is rock-solid. I will continue to use it as my main desktop computer
until I can purchase a whole new box.

After some research, it seems there may have been more than one
production run of the P4T533 v1.03 and only the ones that have a FAN
on the chipset and pump more amps to the CPU work stable. I am not in
the mood to RMA this motherboard back to ASUS even though I have read
that some folks have.

The good news is that I have another box I use as a test server with
an Abit BE7-RAID / 1Gig 333mhz DDR which accepted the P4 3.06G with no
problems. Running Windows 2003 Server or SuSE 8.2 with HyperThreading
enabled, not a single glitch as of yet from the initial power up.

JR