P4P800 Deluxe bios 1014 Problem

[MadDog]

After installing the bios 1014
My HD Maxtor 160GB SATA
Won't stay as 1st drive
Always go back to be a 3rd drive
I can save the changes in the bios 100 times
But on the next reboot the drive is back as 3rd.

 

[Maximus]

After installing the bios 1014
My HD Maxtor 160GB SATA
Won't stay as 1st drive
Always go back to be a 3rd drive
I can save the changes in the bios 100 times
But on the next reboot the drive is back as 3rd.

This is one annoying feature, selected booting device automatically changed,
often occurred to me when I shutdown amid BIOS loading. Sometimes this
happens when I cannot remember what I did, only kind of reboot.


It happens less with P4C800E-D, but basically the same. Not sure why,
but the old AWARD Bios is less "volatile" than AMI Bios.

 

[Eric]

Did you make sure to load bios defaults after updating bios? Do that --
then try again.
You'll have to change all of your non default settings back to what they
were -- but this is necessary to save bios update properly.

 

[Darkfalz]

After installing the bios 1014
My HD Maxtor 160GB SATA
Won't stay as 1st drive
Always go back to be a 3rd drive
I can save the changes in the bios 100 times
But on the next reboot the drive is back as 3rd.

A known bug. No fix.

 

[Navid]

A known bug. No fix.

I have an 80GB SATA with XP (system boot) on it.
I have set it as the primary boot and it never changes on its own.
I am using 1014.

 

[Philip Callan]

A known bug. No fix.

Umm, a possible simple fix, you do realize that after flashing the first
time you POST with your new BIOS, you should
go into your BIOS, 'Reset all settings to Default' SAVE, power down, wait 10
seconds, power up and configure your
BIOS to the setttings you desire/require.

Your new BIOS may have the same settings, the same menus, but may not
recognize stored values that were set by a previous BIOS.

Try it and see if it helps.

Philip

 

[Ken Fox]

I have an 80GB SATA with XP (system boot) on it.
I have set it as the primary boot and it never changes on its own.
I am using 1014.

Ditto. I should add that I did have problems after flashing to 1014, which
were solved when I removed the CMOS battery and shorted the CMOS jumpers.
The problems I had before that were quite numerous and revolved around disk
accesses, however the machine never forgot which drive to boot from even in
the midst of all that.

ken

 

[kda]

Umm, a possible simple fix, you do realize that after flashing the first
time you POST with your new BIOS, you should
go into your BIOS, 'Reset all settings to Default' SAVE, power down, wait 10
seconds, power up and configure your
BIOS to the setttings you desire/require.

Your new BIOS may have the same settings, the same menus, but may not
recognize stored values that were set by a previous BIOS.

Try it and see if it helps.

Philip

I actually did try that ("load defaults") right after I flashed 1014
but no help. Nothing short of using the BOOT page sub-menu option
two (the second menu ... below the menu where you set boot order
preferences) worked for me.

I went into that second from the top sub-menu and disabled the hard
disk drives I didn't want the BIOS to consider as potential boot
drives seems. That worked.

Doing this didn't actually disable any of my drives, but just took
them out of future "consideration as a boot drive".

kda

 

[Ken Fox]

I actually did try that ("load defaults") right after I flashed 1014
but no help. Nothing short of using the BOOT page sub-menu option
two (the second menu ... below the menu where you set boot order
preferences) worked for me.

I went into that second from the top sub-menu and disabled the hard
disk drives I didn't want the BIOS to consider as potential boot
drives seems. That worked.

Doing this didn't actually disable any of my drives, but just took
them out of future "consideration as a boot drive".

kda

I thought that was what you were supposed to do with the boot order screen
in the bios. It is certainly what I have done, and it is something I always
check after I add a new HD into the system to be sure that the bios didn't
automatically make the new drive appear on the boot drive list.

Generally, I set the boot order to be Floppy, <maybe CDROM>, then boot hard
drive. Under Hard Drive boot order, I only list the one drive I would want
to boot from and disable the rest of them (from the boot list).

Perhaps that is why I never had trouble with this aspect of flashing to
1014.

ken

 

[Ian]

I have had the same problem - BIOS resets to boot from Primary PATA drive
rather than SATA.

Flashed with 1015 BIOS and everything is back to normal.