Re: Asus motherboard P3B-F and shutdown

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From: Dirk Stevens (Stevens_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 22:16:01 -0700

No, I did not do a repair install after I switched over.
Yesterday I did however have the courage to upgrade the bios from rev 1004 to 1006 and that upgrade did solve the problem.

In any case, many thanks for the tip. I had not thought of doing that.
Dirk Stevens

"Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)" wrote:

> Did you do a repair install of Windows XP after you switched over to the new
> motherboard? That will usually solve the problem.
>
> --
> Regards:
>
> Richard Urban
>
> aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
>
> "dirk Stevens" <stevensdirk@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1bb2001c45136$983af120$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> > Hi Newsgroup,
> >
> > I have the following problem. After having put an ASUS P3B-
> > F motherboard into an old PC I have, now my Windows XP,
> > when I want to shutdown, shuts down and then reboots
> > automatically. I can't get the PC to switch off completely.
> > A chkdsk control of my harddisk did not reveal any
> > problems. My device manager does not indicate anything
> > wrong either. In the KB on the microsoft site I do not
> > find anything either. On the ASUS website, there is a
> > similar problem with windows 2000 and this motherboard.
> > They recommend a bios update, but my bios is higher than
> > the mininum version they recommend. As another bios update
> > went wrong last friday on another board and thrashed it
> > completely, I am reluctant to try another bios update. On
> > some newsgroups on the internet there are other people who
> > have had this problem, but no solution was mentioned. Does
> > anyone know anything more about this?
> >
> > many thanks for any info,
> > Dirk Stevens
> >
>
>
>

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