P4C800-E BIOS 1015 - Just Installed

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Hi All,
I've just installed BIOS 1015.

1) Boot up time is a lot faster. Using BIOS 1014 it displayed the ASUS
screen for about 40 seconds before it would get to the 'loading windows..'
screen. It's now down to about 4 seconds. (Initially using 1014, it was also
around 4 seconds, but grew to 40 when I connected my external USB disk drive
and a USB compact flash reader).

2) The ASUS welcome screen used to show the Intel Logo with 'H T', now it
just shows the plain Intel logo. (windows & Sandra show it as a HT cpu - so
it shouldn't be any problem)

3) I have both SATA & PATA drives. The machine had a tendency to want to
boot of the PATA, regardless of the BIOS settings. I'll let you know if 1015
has cured that.


Bill
 
They fixed the bootorder.
In 1014 the order you selected never got saved, it was allways floppy first.
 
This morning it took 3 cold boots before the machine could get into windows
using the 1015 BIOS., but yesterday it seemed fine....

Bill
 
MaH said:
They fixed the bootorder.
In 1014 the order you selected never got saved, it was allways floppy
Click to expand...
first.

Maybe in your computer, but I always set the BIOS to HDD, CD, Floppy unless
I'm doing a flash/upgrade/install and it always remembered my boot order.

I tried BIOS 1015 and it was the most unstable piece of crap around and went
back to 1014 in under two days.
 
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MaH wrote:
| They fixed the bootorder.
| In 1014 the order you selected never got saved, it was allways floppy
first.

Thats *really* odd, seeing as I have 1014, flashed it like 2 days after
release, and followed the instructions to clear my cmos and reset to
defaults, and I have had *0* boot related problems.

And I currently have 1 SATA HD 1 PATA HD 1 PATA CDRW 1 PATA DVDRW

I can set it to boot from any of those devices, and it will remember it
no problems.

Many of the problems people experience with the bios 'not saving' is
becuase they havent followed the flash procedure properly, and the BIOS
may still have 'settings' left from the previous version, like I've
said, it may have the same menu options, but *where* it stores the
setting for each option may not be the same from revision to revision.

TRy clearing your CMOS,then going into bios and 'reset to defaults'
reboot *then* set up you settings. save and reboot. See if it works for you.

Philip
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Hi Philip,

Using 1014, it would lose the boot settings maybe once a week. I cleared
the CMOS several times and set it up using defaults, hoping it would solve
the problem, but it never did.

- the problem seemed to have been made worse by the addition of the
USB devices.

Using 1015, after an initial few days of success, it seems to have
problems doing a cold boot. (I recently disabled the Promise controller 'cos
I had nothing attached to it).

All in all, the 1015 BIOS seems to be 'better'. Yes I often have to boot
twice, but so far, its always 'seem' the USB compact flash drive. BIOS 1014
hardly ever found it at bootup. (but if I unplugged it and plugged it back
in again, 1014 would find it).

I've now re-enabled the promise controller, so I'll see how that goes.

Bill


- I currently have;

2 SATA HD - on the Intel controller
1 PATA HD
1 PATA CDRW
1 PATA DVDRW
1 PATA ZIP Drive
1 USB external HD
1 USB Compact flash reader

All the PATA devices are attached to the 'standard ide controller', not
the Promise.
 
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wfs wrote:
| Hi Philip,
|
| Using 1014, it would lose the boot settings maybe once a week. I
cleared
| the CMOS several times and set it up using defaults, hoping it would solve
| the problem, but it never did.


Hmm, I think part of it may be that 1014 had problems some said with
multiple devices of the same type, by any chance did it confuse the boot
order of your SATA devices?

I cant comment on the floppy thing, I'm at least one piece legacy free,
never put them in my machines, since cd's became bootable ;)
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