I got these 3 motherboards in an auction and am trying to get the manuals for them. They are all the same motherboards. No matter where I have tried, I just can't seem to find the manual for this one. Can anyone help me. Thanks
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That is the asus "hawk", in many HP mini ATX's. It will never have a book of it's own, or a BIOS update, you see, it was made for HP only, and was discontinued. It will however, adapt well with a powerleap neo S/370 CPU converter. (I've done that) but it doesn't
seem to accept graphic accel cards. Put it on Ebay, you'll get at least 10 bux!!
What Ed says is correct on the Hawk. Just one thing I'd add -- the best (as in, only good) version of the Hawk is the rev. 2.03. The earlier ones are VERY prone to lock-ups & POST problems related to the integrated video. For a low-end board, though, the 2.03 is solid & reliable, if a little out of date. :)
Ok here are you answers.
These mother boards were made by asus for hp computers an asus will not give any info on them,a policy ruling.what you need to do to make them work is this.
Goto the intel web site an then download there chipset id program 125k in size run it on your motherboards an find out the chipset versions.
then go to the web site again an down load the chipset drivers,the audio drivers,the video drivers,All these are on the web site.Also these mother boards must have a min. of windows 98se to work they will not work on anything less than this.Also these motherboards will only take a maxium of a processor running at 100 bus speed of 800 meg.htz too.There is a setting for either 66/100 bus speed thats it.If you have problems you may contact me at masargr1@aol.com please put in field of e-mail mew-vm
Hope this helps you ,for there is no documentation on this board at all an there are many trypes of these boards too.
FWIW (outside of the fact that the original message is somewhat old & the poster may no longer be here, much less monitoring the thread), there area number of documented case of people running more than 800 MHz chips (usually one of the 1.1 gig Celerons) on the Hawk 2.03. I'm not in a position to speak to the 98SE aspect of it, but I'd imagine since it's basically the same board as the 1.02 & 1.03, just with problems fixed, that the 2.03 would probably run on just plain 98 as well, since that's what was loaded on most of the boards that used the Hawk originally. I've been running SE as an upgrade for several years, so I can't address whether it would for sure or not, though. The higher performance chips are pretty well-documented, though.
I wouldn't touch this one with a 3 meter pole -- it's the 1.02, which is DEFINITELY one of the problem boards. You have to give the seller serious honesty points, though -- they're honest about the terms of the sale, which is a *heck* of a lot more than can be said for *some* of the people selling hosed-up tech items there & other places. still, $11 is darn high just for s/h.... :(
hmm... when i got the recall notice for the hawks... it wasnt for lockups, it was for intermittent boot, where if it was on for an extended amount of time, turned off, then immediately powered up, it wouldnt post... this is where phone support invented their "discharging of caps" by unplugging it, hitting the power button for a few seconds, then plugging back in and try again... (phone support also thought that popping sound when power is cycled was a problem, when it wasnt... what can you say for underpaid/undertrained phone monkeys?)sometimes it worked, sometimes it didnt... hp's admission to the problem was sorta mixed up, since they were also finding a certain series of micron's ram to be causing the problem, too...
as far as lockups... yea... that goes to the mercury (MEW-AM), not the hawk (MEW-VM)... have no clue why people get these boards confused, or their design flaws...
im suprised people still buy these boards, since they were crap when they were introduced... now they're old crap 3 years after they were discontinued
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