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More info?)
Got mine since a few weeks now. Brand new; Still excited by the perfs.
Since you know all the details now on what to avoid and what works;
I suggest you pay a visit to your nearest computer shop that holds ASUS stocks.
Even more; You could still shop for best prices, and ask the salesman with the
exact detail of the board revision / serial ending you want not.
If he does not hold this popular board in stocks, he's gonna pick-up the phone
and tell the guy holding stocks.... Don't risk anything now that you are aware;
The box is never scealed, you can easily, carefully ask the guy to pull it out of
the anti-static wrapper and see for yourself.
That will be the day
Yet, I think chances you get one of the early boards are low.
B
>Edward wrote in message ...
>Thanks for the help James. How long have you had your board? The
>message thread I attached was from late April - mid May. I wonder if
>there is any way to request a board that ends in 03.
>
>
>James Bald wrote:
>> Edward,
>> I've got a fine working P4P800-E deluxe rev 1.02 + ANTEC TruePower 480W.
>>
>> To quote one of the post in the link you provided:
>> "I told the Asus tech my exact setup and he said he would test the mb with an Antec
>> ps before shipping it out. He said the problem was detecting the voltage on the 4 pin. "
>>
>> According to my ANTEC pinout, Pin4 is +5VDC RED.
>> I don't see how in the world the motherboard could fail that ??
>> As I was looking around for details about what kind of 'junk'
is in the Sonata,
>> I found some more details.
>>
>> "Il s'agit d'un probleme venant de Asus pour les cartes mere dont le code inscrit
>> sur le bord de la carte mere à coté des ports IDE et lecteur disquette se finit par 02
>> (moi c'est ...-A02). Le probleme est "reglé" avec les cartes meres avec un code finissant par 03. "
>>
http://forum.hardware.fr/hardwarefr/Hardware/sujet-594004-1.htm (for the records)
>>
>> Short translation summary:
>> "Problem is from Asus, with mobo's having a number finishing with 02, along near
>> the IDE and floppy ports... It's solved on boards finishing with 03"
>>
>> Indeed, I opened my casing and checked the tiny numbers... "(.long serial)..MBLCW0 -A03"
>> So My motherboard is one of the Fixed versions.
>>
>> That should reassure those with a rev 1.02 as well.
>> Regards,
>> B
>>
>>
>>
>>>Edward wrote in message ...
>>>http://tinyurl.com/yu9ql
>>>
>>>Search p4p800-e and antec on abxzone.com if the above url does not get
>>>you there; I think there are 40 messages in the thread:
>>>
>>>This is the message:
>>>"I spoke to support at Antec today and they confirmed a problem between
>>>Antec psu and certain revision # Asus P4p800e-deluxe mb's. Antec gave me
>>>the # and ext to Asus support. Asus emailed me the info to get an RMA
>>>for a new mb. I am glad to finally find a fix, but after all is done I
>>>will have around $60.00 in shipping for a problem that was none of my
>>>doing. Hope others will find this out before getting in too deep.
>>>
>>>For the record the revision # for my board is 1.02"
>>>
>>
>> (..)
>>
>>
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