Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 27 Oct 2001 15:17:19 +0200 | From | Jan Niehusmann <> | Subject | Re: VIA KT133 data corruption update |
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On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 03:48:56AM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > After several months of begrudgingly putting up with my ASUS A7V > motherboard corrupting roughly 1 byte per 100 million read during > moderate to heavy PCI bus activity, I flashed VIA's 1009 BIOS this > evening.
Please note that there have been broken versions of the 1009 BIOS around. I know one person, and I read from serveral ones, who flashed 1009 to their A7V and were unable to start the computer afterwards. (Hangs before/during POST).
Apparently ASUS has replaced the broken version with a working one without updating the version number. But that's just a guess based on recent success stories about 1009.
> I also discovered, of necessity, a halfway manageable process for > creating a DOS boot floppy using Windows ME, which Microsoft would > apparently prefer was not possible. I'll reproduce the steps here, > since otherwise flashing a new BIOS is likely to be nightmarish for > people stuck dual booting into WinME.
As I don't use Windows at all, FreeDOS has proven very useful for flashing the bios. (www.freedos.org) But, of course, no guarantees.
Jan
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