Howdy

Anyone know of a downloadable 1010.01b bios
that contains the latest Promise controller 2.20.0.15 bios ?

thanks

-- stan

Stanley Krute wrote:
> Howdy
>
> Anyone know of a downloadable 1010.01b bios
> that contains the latest Promise controller 2.20.0.15 bios ?
>
> thanks
>
> -- stan
>
>
>
>
The latest recommended controller driver for this mobo is 2.00.0.29. It
enabled 48 bit support and is supposedly designed for the 1010.01b bios
which also enabled 48 bit support. They are available as separate
downloads. While one might be tempted to try the latest and greatest
drivers and bios, my experience with mobos having Via and Promise chips
have proved this not to be wise. I would try these downloads first-

http://www.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/sock...aWinDrvB29.zip
http://www.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/sock...1010AVU01B.zip

Hi tomcas

Thanks for the response.

> The latest recommended controller driver for this mobo is 2.00.0.29. It
> enabled 48 bit support and is supposedly designed for the 1010.01b bios
> which also enabled 48 bit support.

I've got both of those.

But I'm not looking for the Promise driver. I'm looking for its bios.

The 1010.01b a7v133 bios includes the Promise 2.20.0.14 bios.
What I'm looking for is a hacked version of 1010.01b that contains
the 2.20.0.15 Promise bios. Supposedly the Promise *.15 fixes a
few more bugs in that benighted chip.

-- stan

Stanley Krute wrote:
> Hi tomcas
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
>
>>The latest recommended controller driver for this mobo is 2.00.0.29. It
>>enabled 48 bit support and is supposedly designed for the 1010.01b bios
>>which also enabled 48 bit support.
>
>
> I've got both of those.
>
> But I'm not looking for the Promise driver. I'm looking for its bios.
>
> The 1010.01b a7v133 bios includes the Promise 2.20.0.14 bios.
> What I'm looking for is a hacked version of 1010.01b that contains
> the 2.20.0.15 Promise bios. Supposedly the Promise *.15 fixes a
> few more bugs in that benighted chip.
>
> -- stan
>
>
>
Sorry Stan, did you try Lumberjacker?

>But I'm not looking for the Promise driver. I'm looking for its bios.
>
>The 1010.01b a7v133 bios includes the Promise 2.20.0.14 bios.
>What I'm looking for is a hacked version of 1010.01b that contains
>the 2.20.0.15 Promise bios. Supposedly the Promise *.15 fixes a
>few more bugs in that benighted chip.
>
>-- stan

If you find it please post it, I need it as well, thank you

-GV

Update:

I finally -- DOH !!! -- solved my A7V133/Promise controller
HD corruption issues by adding a Siig ATA-133 controller card
to the system, bypassing the Promise controller.

Highly recommended.

-- stan

Never had any HD corruption problem with the Promise controller on my
two A7V133 boards I used for years.

Stanley Krute wrote:
> Update:
>
> I finally -- DOH !!! -- solved my A7V133/Promise controller
> HD corruption issues by adding a Siig ATA-133 controller card
> to the system, bypassing the Promise controller.
>
> Highly recommended.
>
> -- stan
>
>

Hi Eric

> Never had any HD corruption problem with the Promise controller on my two
> A7V133 boards I used for years.

Glad to hear that.

Could have something to do with the load this system is
carrying. There are four HDs, a DVD burner, and a Canopus
DVREX-M1 video editing system. Currently
using a 350-watt CoolerMaster power supply,
but it had a 250-watt Enlight supply when the troubles began.

Also: the drive that first started having problems is a 200GB Western
Digital with 8MB cache. I "lost" the contents of that drive several times,
although chkdsk was able to bring things back, albeit with some losses.

Also: the 200GB drive currently shows approx. 1/3 of its space as
bad sectors. I'm getting a replacement from Western Digital, as its
under warranty.

Several days now without any chkdsk problems. Before the Siig
card, I'd develop problems within an hour of usage.

-- stan

Thanks for the reply Stanley,
Fine you don't have problems anymore.
The two computers with an A7V133 board I used (I still have one) had
large tower cases packed with disks and other goodies.
I used Promise RAID1 for four years on both of them without any trouble.

Couldn't find the O/S you are using, could be too big a disk for the O/S
if you still use Windows 9x

Stanley Krute wrote:
> Glad to hear that.
> Could have something to do with the load this system is
> carrying. There are four HDs, a DVD burner, and a Canopus
> DVREX-M1 video editing system. Currently
> using a 350-watt CoolerMaster power supply,
> but it had a 250-watt Enlight supply when the troubles began.
> Also: the drive that first started having problems is a 200GB Western
> Digital with 8MB cache. I "lost" the contents of that drive several times,
> although chkdsk was able to bring things back, albeit with some losses.
> Also: the 200GB drive currently shows approx. 1/3 of its space as
> bad sectors. I'm getting a replacement from Western Digital, as its
> under warranty.
> Several days now without any chkdsk problems. Before the Siig
> card, I'd develop problems within an hour of usage.
>
> -- stan
>
>

Hi Eric

> Couldn't find the O/S you are using, could be too big a disk for the O/S
> if you still use Windows 9x

XP Home SP2.

> The two computers with an A7V133 board I used (I still have one) had large
> tower cases packed with disks and other goodies.
> I used Promise RAID1 for four years on both of them without any trouble.

Glad to hear.

I googled this problem a bunch, and found several possibilities
for my problems:

-- power supply: many folks said the a7v133 needs a 350w supply minimum
-- VIO setting: many folks recommended setting at 3.3v, rather than the
default 3.45v
-- the Promise controller: there were a few instances of folks saying it
had problems with large WD drives, like my 200GB, esp. when there
was an 8MB drive cache involved.

I tried all those fixes, and still had problems. The Siig
ATA-133 board route-around cured the issues.

-- stan