"Paul" wrote in message
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Hi,

Has anyone had success installing XP SP2 onto an ASUS T2-P? I have
tried
installing the service pack
three times with no joy. It finished the service pack install ok, but
never
re-boots afterwards. It just
stops during the IPL, and safe mode, last known config etc don't work
either. I even scratch installed
XP, and installed the service pack, but got the same results. I have
installed SP2 onto 4 other boxes,
all of which went without a hitch, but the ASUS T2-P doesn't like it.
It
runs, and has done for months,
with service pack 1 and all the updates with no trouble at all, but
service
pack 2 kills it. I have bios
1007, just in case that is of importance.

Anyone successfully managed to put SP2 onto one of these?

See:
http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=7447

BIOS 1007 has microcode for 0F0A, 0F12, 0F13, 0F24, 0F25, 0F27, 0F29
(04/06/2003) and 0F29 (18/07/2003). I think a Prescott would be
0F33, so the conditions for that theory hold, and the motherboard
in question probably doesn't completely support Prescott. (I
cannot find the motherboard or T2-P on the cpusupport web page,
and that is why I had to extract the BIOS file.)

If the board had an Award BIOS, you might be able to install your
own microcode using CTMC (i.e. without having to completely flash
a new BIOS - the procedure just installs a 2KB microcode file and
won't corrupt the BIOS because the microcode segment is transient).
I don't know if the same hook is in the AMI BIOS, such that CTMC
could work or not.

http://www.tipperlinne.com/bios6b4.htm

The AMIBCP75 program can be used to manipulate the AMI BIOS - that
is what I used to extra the microcode segment above. But, both
CBROM and AMIBCP tend to hiccup with Asus BIOS, as Asus has messed
with the format a bit, and I haven't had any success in editing
BIOS files yet (others have). If going this route (editing a BIOS
and flashing the whole thing), a BIOS Savior with duplicate flash
chip is a must. That assumes there is a model of BIOS Savior that
fits in a T2-P.

It might be better to phone Asus tech support and find out if
there is any plan to put microcode for the Prescott in that
BIOS. Explain how SP2 won't work without it :-)

Paul
Hi Paul,
Thanks for the info. It sounds a bit out of my league, so I will wait for
the next
bios release from Asus. This box is flogged as supporting Prescott's, so
they
are sure to issue a bios update to fix it - otherwise they can have the
bloody thing back!