Asus P3B-F motherboard

[jes]

I am retrofitting a computer for my mother using parts from other computers that I have collected. The motherboard is Asus P3B-F. I have found the manual, well I seem to have lost the manual again but as I recall it had nothing helpfull in this case anyway. I am wondering about the BIOS tones. Upon startup I got one long followed by three short. Does anyone know were I can find this information?

[Orion]

First off, good mobo! outdated, but it really performed well for my department at the University. I love the DIP layout instead of the pins....and the soft configuring....

Anyways, about your actual question:
I heard this combination many many times, as I had to make do with all the frankenstein computers we had in my department. It means that the BIOS can't detect a video card. I did some searches and found the following line confirming this:

"PipeBom
01-14-02, 08:56 AM
Yeah, the 1 long beep and 3 short beeps mean that a video card can't be detected. Even when it is in the slot, sometimes they can wiggle their way out enough so that its not making a proper connection. Its the same code for my ASUS motherboard. Annoying when that happens..."

Try putting another vid card in. If I remember correctly, that model had quite a few troubles with the 2X AGP cards I used to try...as well as some of the PCI ones...I'm not sure where you can find a compatability chart at this point, but hopefully you have some extra cards to try lying around....I know it has a 1X/2X AGP slot...

as far as reliable sources of info for this kind of stuff, figure out what bios you have (the P3B-f had AwardBIOS), and look at this web site

The manual I found here

Good luck!

Edit: I just looked up some of my old documentation from up there, and the problem I narrowed many of my issues to was the AGP speed, and the voltage...I had to make sure I had a Vid card that was AGP 1.0 compatible-you'd have to look up the specifics, but it had to be AGP 1X or 2X, and have the proper voltage for the Mobo. I can look up later to see what that voltage should be. PCI vid cards usually worked out fine.

[saphalline]

Holy cr@p! I had to see this one for myself!

Man, I remember that mobo. Spent a lot of time with it... In fact, I think my old car had a broken one as a permanent resident! I believe I sold the car with the broken mobo in it! Haha!

[jes]

That worked well thanks. I had another AGP vid card (actually from another computer witht the same mobo).