From: Gregg N 

Mike '/m' wrote:
>>the new motherboard (an ABIT VT7)
>
>
>
> fwiw, I tend to find the ASUS motherboards to be a notch higher in
> quality than the ABIT's.  YMMV and all that stuff.
>
>  /m

The motherboard the ABIT replaced was an Asus P2B. Up until the end, it was
a great reliable motherboard. I had not planned on putting together a new
system, and I was not up on all the latest chipsets and processors, so at
first all I was going to do was find a replacement P2B on Ebay. I decided I
couldn't wait a week for delivery, so I went to the store and bought the
second cheapest Pentium 4 MB they had (the cheapest was an MSI that did not
support later Pentium 4's with 800MHz FSB).

I think the random reboot problem has to do with the wireless NIC I have
installed. The reboot appears to occur when there is a lot of network
activity. If I download a large file, I can usually get it to reboot within
a minute or so. Changing the slot does not help. When I remove the card,
and use the built-in Realtek Ethernet interface instead, there are no more
reboots. Tweaking various bios settings has not helped.

The strange thing is that it exhibits this behavior with two entirely
different wireless PCI cards that do not share a common chipset (one is
Broadcom, the other Atheros), and it occurs in both Windows and Linux. One
of the cards (the broadcom one) uses the Windows driver even under Linux
(via ndiswrapper), but the other does not. It uses the madwifi native Linux
Atheros driver.

On an impulse, I bought an Asus P4P800E MB which uses an Intel chipset
instead of a Via one. I would prefer not having to rebuild everything
though. A wireless Ethernet bridge costs more than the MB though.

Gregg

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5