K8V SE Deluxe BIOS 1004sd.001 (beta) problems

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"Charlie King" <charlie@removethisitsaspamtrap.stopthatitssilly.com> wrote
in message news:cbor6s$aoa$5@news-reader1.wanadoo.fr...
> I've experienced some problems with the K8V SE Deluxe 1004sd.001
> (beta) BIOS, so I thought I'd mention them to see a) if I'm alone in
> this and b) what I ought to do about them:
>
> I've had a stable machine for some time, although I don't overclock.
> I've been running the 1003sd.rom release bios since its release, and
> haven't had any problems.
>
> I only installed the 1004 beta to see if it made any difference to the
> performance of my RAM (bios releases often address ram timing issues,
> and there have been timing problems reported with the Athlon64).
>
> I flashed to 1004sd.001 using the Asus Update 5.28.01 under WinXP Pro,
> and cold-rebooted once it had completed. I then went straight into
> CMOS to re-enter my settings, and cold-booted again.
>
> Win XP booted fine, but froze after about 20 mins requiring a reset.
> On re-booting the VIA post (as opposed to the main BIOS post)
> complained that the device was missing. A cold (power fully off)
> reboot, and the device posted OK.
>
> WinXP then booted OK, but into Chkdsk having found errors on both
> SATA drives on the VIA bus. Eventually I got the desktop back, but it
> froze again after 5 minutes, and the above process was repeated.
>
> After this, I used my BIOS boot floppy to restore 1003sd.rom and,
> after having cleaned up loads of indexing errors on the two SATA
> drives on the VIA bus, all is back to normal.
>
> The symptoms suggest to me some kind of conflict being caused between
> the 1004sd.001 bios and the bios on the VIA SATA chipset (or the
> southbridge?), but it could equally have caused some kind of RAM
> timing issue (which can cause all manner of bizarre symptoms).
>
> I concentrated more on trying to recover to a stable system than on
> trying to analyse what the problem is, so I don't really have any
> concrete info.
>
> Also, are ASUS collecting error reports on their beta bioses?
>
> ------------------------------------
> Setup:
>
> Asus K8V SE Deluxe, BIOS 1003sd.rom (1004sd.001)
> AMD Athlon 64 3400+ @ default speed
> 1024MB RAM - Corsair TWINX CMX512-3200LL (2x 512) @ default 2-3-2-6
> Disk 0 C: Promise ATA IDE Raid 0, 2x 80Gb IDE 133
> Disk 1 D: Via SATA IDE 1x 160 Gb
> Disk 2 E: Via SATA IDE 1x 160 Gb
> Gigabyte NVidia GeForce FX 5200 (Omega 1.5303 drivers)
> Zalman Reserator CPU cooling
> Stock VGA cooling
> ------------------------------------
>
>
> --
> Charlie

I've been using the 1004.001 bios for a couple of days without
any problems. I used a bootable floppy, but I don't think that
would matter.
My system specs
K8V-SE-Deluxe Bios 1004.001 Athlon64 3200+ AMD retail cooling
1GB Ram 2*512 sticks of Kingston HyperEx 3500DDR
Raid 0 array on Promise 2*120GB SATA drives drive D:
Raid 0 array on Via 2*120GB SATA drives Drive C:
120GB drive on secondary IDE master Drive G:
2 cdrom drives on primary IDE as drives E: and F:
PNY 5900XP 61.40 Beta drivers

Jim M

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

I think I did see someone mention in another forum that they applied 1004
and their system stopped working.
Difficult to say whether this was a genuine problem, a "one-off" or even
"finger trouble".
I *think* I might just hold off from installing 1004 on my system for a
while.....
-Steve

"Charlie King" <charlie@removethisitsaspamtrap.stopthatitssilly.com> wrote
in message news:cbor6s$aoa$5@news-reader1.wanadoo.fr...
> I've experienced some problems with the K8V SE Deluxe 1004sd.001
> (beta) BIOS, so I thought I'd mention them to see a) if I'm alone in
> this and b) what I ought to do about them:
>
> I've had a stable machine for some time, although I don't overclock.
> I've been running the 1003sd.rom release bios since its release, and
> haven't had any problems.
>
> I only installed the 1004 beta to see if it made any difference to the
> performance of my RAM (bios releases often address ram timing issues,
> and there have been timing problems reported with the Athlon64).
>
> I flashed to 1004sd.001 using the Asus Update 5.28.01 under WinXP Pro,
> and cold-rebooted once it had completed. I then went straight into
> CMOS to re-enter my settings, and cold-booted again.
>
> Win XP booted fine, but froze after about 20 mins requiring a reset.
> On re-booting the VIA post (as opposed to the main BIOS post)
> complained that the device was missing. A cold (power fully off)
> reboot, and the device posted OK.
>
> WinXP then booted OK, but into Chkdsk having found errors on both
> SATA drives on the VIA bus. Eventually I got the desktop back, but it
> froze again after 5 minutes, and the above process was repeated.
>
> After this, I used my BIOS boot floppy to restore 1003sd.rom and,
> after having cleaned up loads of indexing errors on the two SATA
> drives on the VIA bus, all is back to normal.
>
> The symptoms suggest to me some kind of conflict being caused between
> the 1004sd.001 bios and the bios on the VIA SATA chipset (or the
> southbridge?), but it could equally have caused some kind of RAM
> timing issue (which can cause all manner of bizarre symptoms).
>
> I concentrated more on trying to recover to a stable system than on
> trying to analyse what the problem is, so I don't really have any
> concrete info.
>
> Also, are ASUS collecting error reports on their beta bioses?
>
> ------------------------------------
> Setup:
>
> Asus K8V SE Deluxe, BIOS 1003sd.rom (1004sd.001)
> AMD Athlon 64 3400+ @ default speed
> 1024MB RAM - Corsair TWINX CMX512-3200LL (2x 512) @ default 2-3-2-6
> Disk 0 C: Promise ATA IDE Raid 0, 2x 80Gb IDE 133
> Disk 1 D: Via SATA IDE 1x 160 Gb
> Disk 2 E: Via SATA IDE 1x 160 Gb
> Gigabyte NVidia GeForce FX 5200 (Omega 1.5303 drivers)
> Zalman Reserator CPU cooling
> Stock VGA cooling
> ------------------------------------
>
>
> --
> Charlie