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"Ron Reaugh" <rondashreaugh@att.net> wrote in message
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> "n" <neal206(AT)@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Ron,
>>
>> Took your advice and sent them an email full of cheek and abuse,
>> demanding
>> my problem was escalated to someone who understood the problem and could
> fix
>> it. They then (strangely) stopped replying to me, but two days later BIOS
>> 1008 has been release for the T2-P box which fixes the Prescott / SP2
>> problem.
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> Did that announce/state anywhere that the new BIOS fixes the SP2+Prescott
> issue or did the new BIOS just appear without comment?
The extensive text said "Fix Service Pack 2 comflict with WinXP issue"
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>> The processor microcode revision has gone from 0 to B. Having
>> re-renamed update.sys all is well, and the box seems considerably
>> quicker.......
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> You can likely rename update.sys back now with the new BIOS.
Yes, renamed it back and everything is working fine. This was the update.sys
file from after install of SP2, but before the reboot, when things would
normally die.
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>> Cheers
>> "Ron Reaugh" <rondashreaugh@att.net> wrote in message
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>> > "n" <neal206(AT)@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> > news:c0zZc.110658$b76.10433@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>> >> Having been in lengthly contact with Asus tech support in the UK over
>> >> this
>> >> problem and an Asus T2-P, you will find that Asus insist this is a
>> > Microsoft
>> >> problem (SP2) and not an Asus problem.
>> >
>> > Get the Frequency ID utility from www.intel.com. If when run on their
>> > mobo
>> > it doesn't say "CPU revision = 8" or higher then it IS an Asus problem.
>> > DEMAND that Asus supplies an up to date BIOS for their mobo with
>> > current
>> > microcode for the Prescott.
>> >
>> >>Even having sent them all the
>> >> information about processor microcode levels, and stuff from this
>> > newsgroup,
>> >> they flatly refuse to acknowledge that this could be a problem with
> their
>> >> bios.
>> >
>> > Get tough with em as best you can.
>> >
>> >> Perhaps it's too complicated for Asus tech support (UK) to comprehend?
>> >> Glad to know that customer service is alive and well. Hope everyone
> else
>> > has
>> >> better luck.
>> >
>> > By the way, Asus is right that Asus's mobo BIOS deficiency would never
>> > have
>> > come up if MS hadn't included the buggy version of update.sys in SP2.
> SP2
>> > is great and all should get and use it. This issue in the overall
> scheme
>> > of
>> > things is tiny.
>> >
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