P4P800 Delux - BIOS Upgrade causes QueryDosDevice failed e..

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In article <MtCdnZ1ZoOphx0DdRVn-vA@tcp.co.uk>, "RzB"
<Please@Reply.To.Newsgroup> wrote:

> I have a P4P800 Deluxe that has been a
> little intermittent. About once every other
> day it will just reboot. Sometimes there
> is something in the event logs, sometimes
> there isn't. I have been running with
> BIOS Ver 1016. I noticed that there
> was a newer BIOS (1017) so decided to
> give that a try.
>
> Unfortunately, I now constantly, every few
> seconds, get an error message pop up saying..
>
> !!! QueryDosDevice failed.
> More data is available
>
> Anyone any idea where this is coming from?
> And where the "more data" is.
> There is nothing in the event logs..
>
> BTW - No overclocking on this machine.
>
> Many thanks,
> Roy

Have you searched on the string "QueryDosDevice failed"
including the double quotes, in groups.google.com ? One
post associates raid_tool.exe with the message.

Another post refers to code that probes the
serial ports.

A search in Altavista dug this up:

http://www.abxzone.com/forums/show [...] adid=55493

"His fix was to install version 2.0 of the 'raid tool'"

HTH,
Paul