asus A7V + 1gig t-bird = annoying problems...

[b-man1]

hi all-

i just swapped this:


abit bf6
p3 550e @ 715 (130fsb)


for this:


asus a7v
1gig thunderbird
alpha pal6035 w/ sunon 60mm
arctic silver goo


i did the infamous "swap" and let WinME detect all of the changes. everything seems to work except the following:

1. the system hangs periodically when trying to wake the monitor up. i have standby/suspend disabled, but the monitor will not come back on (i have the newest monitor drivers installed)

2. i flashed the BIOS to the newest version (1005a) and all seemed well...but now i get a "non-boot disk error...please insert disk and press enter" when restarting. i press "enter" and it continues fine. the boot sequence is correct in the BIOS. ???

any ideas? or should i just format c:/ ???



[Edited by b-man1 on 01-07-2001 at 01:29 AM]

[smb]

I think if you enable boot sector protection in the bios, it works correctly. the best bios so far is probably 1004D.
If you need it, drop me an email, and I will get it to you.

[b-man1]

thanks for the info. i ended up going back to the 1004d that it had to begin with.

i formatted and reinstalled WinME and it's so-far-so-good.

i haven't tried to overclock yet, just being happy that it's stable for a few days!

[cak]

Kinda off the subject, but hehe, Don't use the VIA IDE driver. Use microsofts.

[b-man1]

what's wrong with the 4-in-1's? i'm using the ones that came with the mobo...haven't even bothered to download updated ones.

[cak]

All you need is the newest AGP and IRQ patch(people say you don't need the IRQ but i like having the newer one). The VIA IDE driver performs wrose then the MS, both by through put and CPU usage.

[Cloud-X]

where can we get the MS drivers for that?

[cak]

The MS driver is already in windows.

[nexus_7]

Just got my self a Tbird 1gig and an asus A7V. No probs here with win98se. blazing fast 2. Oh yea!

Greg