Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 01 Jul 2001 13:06:35 +0200 (CEST) | From | Pierre Etchemaite <> | Subject | Re: AMD thunderbird oops |
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On 28-Jun-2001 Tim Moore wrote: >> (I wrote) >> Some ASUS boards (mostly P3B-F) would either freeze or self reboot >> when using PhotoShop 5. Everything else would run perfectly. >> >> Disabling MMX optimizations in this software would "solve" the >> problem. Another solution found on the web (sorry, I don't have >> the URL at hand) is to add two or three additionnal capacitors on >> the back of the board, to solve the electric instabilities that >> cause the reboots. > > This is incorrect information. Abit BP6 early revs suffered under load > from a 100uF cap (EC10, between the CPU sockets) that should have been > 1500uF. This was compounded by a weak or otherwise inadequate power > supply. > > Having run literally 7 P3F-Fs and 6 of their P2B-F predecessors, not a > single one had any problems. They were the premiere overclocking boards > of their day.
Don't get me wrong, I like ASUS boards, and BX chipset boards were a very safe choice at the time, that's why this problem was very disturbing when I experienced it on 2 or 3 boards (out of more than 100, but I guess many never ran Photoshop since then).
I digged my archives.
Adobe Knowledgebase article about the problem (http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/2256a.htm) mentions spontaneous reboots with Dell Optiplex GX1, ASUS P2B-F and ASUS P3B-F.
I could not find anything about the problem on ASUS websites at the time.
(unofficial) P2B-(L)S fixing is documented here: http://www.turbotech.ch/articles2000/000815-p2bls_rework-01.html
(unofficial) CUBX fixing (some of those are also affected): http://members.ams.chello.nl/mgherard/html/photoshop.html
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