oem mb question

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Irv

i have an asus p4g533-la mb which was an oem for hp as an echo4 motherboard.
when i put a celeron 2400 in it, it boots to the hp screen and then it
continuously beeps and locks up. board is supposed to be for both p4 and
celeron. any ideas. thanks
 
i have an asus p4g533-la mb which was an oem for hp as an echo4 motherboard.
when i put a celeron 2400 in it, it boots to the hp screen and then it
continuously beeps and locks up. board is supposed to be for both p4 and
celeron. any ideas. thanks
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Intel has blessed us with way too many flavors of processors.
Maybe you have a Celeron D, and the BIOS and Vcore supply cannot
handle it ? Some of the older motherboards are effectively
restricted to Northwood processors (0.13u) and to the lower
FSB values. Newer Prescott (90nm) processors are a problem.

You can look up your processor via the SSPEC (SLxxx code on the
box somewhere), or the longer order code - see processorfinder.intel.com
..

The Intel pricelist is here, and shows you how much product is
currently shipping as Northwood (0.13u) or Prescott (90nm).
Buying a 0.13u processor is more likely to work.

http://www.intel.com/intel/finance/pricelist/

Does HP have a support phone number ? Maybe they can tell you
exactly what works. Or, if you know of a particular Asus retail
motherboard that matches the design of your board, you can
check the cpusupport web page for that board, and "proceed
by analogy".

(P4G533-LA BIOS upgrade - download and see if it has any release
notes as to what it fixes.)
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericSoftwareDownloadIndex?lc=en&cc=us&softwareitem=pv-17526-1

(specs)
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?lc=en&cc=us&docname=c00046449

I found a picture of the P4G533-LA and it bears a striking
resemblance to P4GE-VM (see page 13) -

http://www.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/sock478/p4ge-vm/e1166_p4ge-vm.pdf

So, go here and look up P4GE-VM, to see what processors will work.
There are no Prescotts or Celeron D processors listed there:

http://www.asus.com.tw/support/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx

HTH,
Paul
 
hi Paul

thanks for the response. the chip is a celeron 2.4 and i know it is not a D
chip. the board is supposed to handle p4 and celeron 400 ghz chips
(interesting that the name of the board has 533 in it).

when the power goes on i hear the first beep and less than a second later,
it starts beeping real fast and a second or two later, the beep becomes
continuous. i have tried different power supplies and different ram. no
change. i have tried with nothing connected except the monitor. i tried
with no ram and the beeps became different so it is something that is being
checked right after the ram. i am leaning toward a bad motherboard.

now, by screwing around so much, i broke one of the heatsink hold downs on
another motherboard. never a dull moment.

irv

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Irv:
I was just wondering if you found your problem and what was the
solution? I have what sounds to be the exact same thing, except mine
started with a USB port problem - I think the plug shorted against
the case. I did try a different power supply but it does the same
thing. I think its the motherboard but I would like to know for sure
before I spend the $154.
Thanks for any help!
Tom
 
You know, the exact same thing happened to me with the exact same
motherboard. I transferred somebody's PC to a new case and the first
thing it did was beep once, beep rapidly, then continuously beep.

Taking out the RAM produced a new beep and the 2 keyboards I tried do
not light up when starting so I can't reset the CMOS (even by taking
out the lithium battery on the Asus PG533-LA Motherboard). So, I
really am stuck. I hope the motherboard or CPU aren't shot. I really
need to get this thing working again. For some reason I think that
this motherboard is so crappy that it can't handle any upgrades or
movement from the original case.


-nirv
 
tom and nirv

on another forum that i was following regarding the same mb, one of the guys
said he had the exact same problem and gave up on the board and returned it.
i also read somewhere that hp power supplies do not supply -5v so maybe a
psu that does supply -5v screws up this board. since you guys are having
problems moving the mb to another case, i wonder if the board needs the hp
power supply. are you guys transferring the power supply to the new case.
i have used different power supplies but not a hp psu. i get to the hp
screen when the tone becomes steady.

also, i would think that a new motherboard that handles the p4 would not
cost near $154 if it is not an hp board. asus and abit make p4 boards that
are a lot cheaper and a lot more flexible than this board and i am sure the
correct size mb (atx micro i think) would fit the hp case. i am playing
with it because it cost me $15 and the other 3 used motherboards, different
models, that i also bought, work fine so it all averages out for me ok.
incidentally, the cpu and memory that don't work on this mb work fine in the
other mb's so it is the board or the psu.

i pulled the battery a week ago, have played with some solder connections
for fun and am waiting to get another cpu. i am afraid to pull the cpu from
another computer since i was not careful and broke one corner of another mb
cpu retention bracket. i moved the broken bracket to this board and have
glued it but don't really expect it to hold the heat sink and fan. i will
get a new cpu and heatsink/fan this month and will try it one last time.

please let me know if one of you try the board again with the hp psu. i
can't think of anything else to try.

"> You know, the exact same thing happened to me with the exact same
 
Irv said:
tom and nirv

on another forum that i was following regarding the same mb,
one of the guys
said he had the exact same problem and gave up on the board
and returned it.
i also read somewhere that hp power supplies do not supply -5v
so maybe a
psu that does supply -5v screws up this board. since you guys
are having
problems moving the mb to another case, i wonder if the board
needs the hp
power supply. are you guys transferring the power supply to
the new case.
i have used different power supplies but not a hp psu. i get
to the hp
screen when the tone becomes steady.

also, i would think that a new motherboard that handles the p4
would not
cost near $154 if it is not an hp board. asus and abit make
p4 boards that
are a lot cheaper and a lot more flexible than this board and
i am sure the
correct size mb (atx micro i think) would fit the hp case. i
am playing
with it because it cost me $15 and the other 3 used
motherboards, different
models, that i also bought, work fine so it all averages out
for me ok.
incidentally, the cpu and memory that don't work on this mb
work fine in the
other mb's so it is the board or the psu.

i pulled the battery a week ago, have played with some solder
connections
for fun and am waiting to get another cpu. i am afraid to
pull the cpu from
another computer since i was not careful and broke one corner
of another mb
cpu retention bracket. i moved the broken bracket to this
board and have
glued it but don't really expect it to hold the heat sink and
fan. i will
get a new cpu and heatsink/fan this month and will try it one
last time.

please let me know if one of you try the board again with the
hp psu. i
can't think of anything else to try.

"> You know, the exact same thing happened to me with the
exact same
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I have the same exact problem. Just wondering if anyone has found any
solutions. Also if I have to change motherboards, what models are the
same exact size?
 
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