I need to troubleshoot an Asus P55TP4XE socket seven motherboard but need a manual. Who can point me in the right direction? Thanks

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Couldn't get to a link with the manual...but here (http://download.asus.com.tw/mb_dl_menu.asp) is a good place to look.

Here (http://www.asus.com.tw/inside/Techref/bios.html) is the tech reference material for the board which may offer some assistance in lieu of the manual.

Try some Googling...you might find it in an obscure location http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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Asus -- P/I-P54TP4(D) P/I-P55TP4(D) P/I-P55TP4XE(D P/I-P55TP4N**
These are the boards by Asus which use the Intel Triton ) chipset, with all that that entails. The boards themselves take everything from a 75 up to a 200 MHz Pentium (in the newer revisions of the board -- older ones could take only up to 133 MHz chips), and can be run with either 4 PCI/3 ISA or 3 PCI/4 ISA slots (all of the PCI slots allow busmastering). Apparently one of the four PCI slots is a proprietary Asus Mediabus, which means that any cards designed to be run in it may have multiple functions (the combination sound/video card detailed in the video cards list would be one of these). You can still use the proprietary slot as a normal PCI slot, however. The boards will take from 8 to 128 MB of DRAM or EDO RAM, and has 256 kB of SRAM cache (upgradable to 512 kB), which may be either synchronous or asynchronous. The boards come with asynchronous cache, which is disabled automatically upon the insertion of synchronous cache. The boards have the SMC super I/O controller on board, and PCI EIDE via the Triton chipset, which apparently supports mode 4 data transfers and DMA mode 2. The board uses the Award BIOS (which has the NCR BIOS built in). There is also a mouse port, but no turbo switch connector on the board. The board was reviewed in the 4/95 issue of the German computer magazine C't. The review was very favourable towards the new Triton chipset and the ASUS board they tested. A board equipped with 256k Burst-SRAM and EDO-RAM achieved transfer rates of 65 MB/sec to 2nd level cache, 39 MByte/s on a direct memory access, 53 MByte/s on a write operation (STOSD), and 54 MByte/s on a memory to PCI transfer. Application benchmarks were run under Windows, OS/2 Warp, and Windows NT 3.5. They didn't mention any incompatiblities with PCI-components. The board failed when running the PCI BIOS check, which was attributed to the BIOS. (The PCI/I-54NP4 board which they used as a comparison failed that test as well). I have had several reports of success from people running these boards.
(Asustek Computer Inc.: 1043/4163) (6/2/96)


Setup Tips:
The BIOS settings for the board are apparently
complex and the documentation minimal; new (as of
August 10/95) versions of the manual apparently do a
better job of documenting/explaining them than do
older ones. Some time may be required to get it set
up just right (though the board is reported to work
well with the BIOS defaults). To that end, make
sure you have the latest BIOS to ensure trouble-free
operation. In addition, the latest revisions of the
board seem to lack JP6, one half of the flash ROM
read/write selector. This apparently is normal, as
that jumper was never moved it was just bridged
closed. If you look at the board with the keyboard
connector in the top right corner, then, you'll see
JP4 and (right below it) JP5, but no JP6. The file
triton.exe, available on the major FTP sites,
contains drivers which take advantage of the
busmastering capabilities of the Triton chipset's
built-in IDE controller. One person has reported
problems with this driver and fixpack 9. It may be
necessary to remove old asynchronous cache before
these boards will recognize new pipeline burst cache
has been installed.

Possible Problems:
One person has reported problems with this board and
a RAM chip labelled Ti -60 TMS417400DJ VBP 440230,
wherein NT/3.5 would neither install nor run on the
system. In addition, certain revisions of the
boards do a PCI bus reset after the SCSI BIOS scans
its bus, which causes problems for the QLogic SCSI
controllers. It will be obvious if you have this
problem; your system will not boot at all. Make sure
that if you are using this combination of hardware
and you have this problem that you get the fix for
the problem from QLogic (the ISP1020 firmware level
should be 1.27 or greater). 8-bit ISA networking
cards will not work properly with this board; use
16-bit ISA networking cards if you have to use ISA
netowrking cards. Note also that if you have
problems booting OS/2 from floppy that you should
have your board replaced; the following revisions of
the floppy controller chip (identified as the SMC
37C665IR multi-I/O chip) are defective:

B9519/5-AIC, 6J75692-1
B9519/5-AIC, 6J75693-8
B9519/5-AIC, 6J75690-5
B9519/5-AIC, 6J75697-0
B9521/5-AIC, 6J75735-7
B9521/5-AIC, 6J75730-0
B9521/5-AIC, 6J75732-5

Useful information:
These Web sites (in addition to Asus' web site) contain some technical
information on the Asus boards:
http://www.infinet.com/~venkat/ (finger venkat@infinet.com) http://www.tdl.com/~netex/ (finger netex@tdl.com)




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YODA74@windows-sucks.com

First off, Thank's for your response. What I could really use if anyone can find it, is I can not figure out where the connections go for the power
on, etc..... I have found the general location because I have keylock and speaker clearly marked but nothing for power. Any suggestion's? Your help is greatly appreciated. Again Thank's

you should be able to find the manual here
http://usa.asus.com/download/manual/mb-man-other.htm

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YODA74@windows-sucks.com

Just a note to say thanks for all your suggestion's and help. I found a manual at www.bigedtech.com (http://www.bigedtech.com)

ok this isnt a reply i hope u guys dont think i am too stupid but i need help in posting problems and actually using this site please help

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