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[Mario741]

Hello, I need help. Can someone help me? I have AMD 900, Asus a7v mb, 128 ram, GeForce 200 MX NVIDIA 64MG, SBlaster Live, 20 gb westerndidgital HD 5400rpm at100
I am not overclocked, I have a problem with my data getting corrupt I called westerndidgital. They think I either need a Bios update or that I need to change the setting in the Bios.
The tech said that there is a fix out there? I already have bios update 1006. Also is 4.35 4 in 1 drivers ok?
Any Ideas?
Thanks in advance!
Mario

Life is too short, don't mess it up!!

 

[NickM]

<font color=green>"...I have a problem with my data getting corrupt..."</font color=green>

Hi Mario:

Some additional info would be helpful.
How old is the system?
Have you installed or updated something recently or before it happened?
Did you have at least one day (or one week, month) when you were happy with your system, and everything worked fine?
How it happened and how often?
What is the exact error message(s) you get?
Have you performed virus scan with the latest updates?
Why do you think you need a new BIOS and why the 1006 BiOS update had been performed?
Why do you think you need new settings for your BIOS?
Are you sure that BiOS flash and driver update were performed properly, in proper order?
Can you say that the power supply fan working properly?

 

[btvillarin]

Are you using rounded IDE cables?
Use those VIA 4.35 drivers, plus maybe that PCI Latency patch at the <A HREF="http://www.viahardware.com" target="_new">VIA Hardware website</A>. Other than that, I'm not sure what else. In the BIOS, default to the original settings. Just make sure you don't change the PCI settings in there.

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[NickM]

Yes, Mario, unfortunatelly ...
there’s an issue with corrupted data and instability with Asus A7V.
You can try google.com or excite.com and you’ll see in articles like this:

<b>Asus AV7 Instability Troubleshooting:</b>
<A HREF="http://usitweb.shef.ac.uk/~aca00lad/articles/010-1.htm " target="_new">http://usitweb.shef.ac.uk/~aca00lad/articles/010-1.htm </A>

“…If I had a dollar for everytime someone said "Im not overclocking, but I have stability problems" to find out the WERE overclocking, started having problems, and just set it back to normal.. I would be rich. You can use the same partition copy to return yourself back to a stable setup if this occurs as well. <b>… Also, if you change BIOS's the copy of the partition you made with the original BIOS, may not work as stable with the new BIOS so keep that in mind as well….</b>”

From what I can see above, you'd better reformat and reinstall Windows after BIOS upgrade.

But there are other sugestions in that article and different opinions at other sites.

Also check out those:

<A HREF="http://www.a7vtroubleshooting.com/articles/cebit/" target="_new">http://www.a7vtroubleshooting.com/articles/cebit/</A>

<A HREF="http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/497/2001/2/0/5252201/" target="_new">http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/497/2001/2/0/5252201/</A>
and others as well. And I hope somebody of the owners of the A7V will help you soon. Good luck.