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133mhz Front-Side Bus speed. PC100 is meant to run on a 100mhz Front-Side Bus. If you are currently running a 133mhz Front-Side Bus, then you would have to kick it down to something less. The Asus motherboards are the best in the business and have MANY FSB settings (Front-Side Bus). To get into the BIOS to check the setting, you need to press the delete key at the beginning of boot up on the second black screen that pops up. It'll actually say "Press Delete to enter Setup". Now, this does not mean you can't run 133mhz FSB. If you have good memory, you might be able to run in at 133mhz without a problem. But you'll have to run it at a CAS 3 setting. There's a selection in the BIOS setup that has the memory timings. There are four of them...they are probably 3-3-3-5 or something like that. If that's what it is, leave it. But if it's 2-2-2-5, then change it to 3-3-3-5. This is getting complicated and you may be lost already. If you know how to mess around in the BIOS, you'll find these settings fairly easily. But again, this is no guarantee it'll work at 133mhz. If it doesn't, you'll have to kick it down to 128 or 125...just keep trying lower settings until the computer is stable. However, by kicking down the FSB speed, you will be decreasing performance of your computer...may not be noticeable if you just do internet stuff and word processing stuff. Personally, PC133 is dirt cheap so you could just spend $30 and get another stick of it and have no problems at all. That'll be better than kicking down your FSB. The Asus CUSL2 supports 512mb of RAM in 3 slots I believe. If you have 2 sticks of 256mb, the third DRAM slot cannot be used. Hope this helps...lol I know it's a lot all at once!
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