P4P800/DLX 1014 BIOS bug

[Darkfalz]

I guess there had to be something :'(

This BIOS does not save your boot device priorities, it resets them every
time you reboot.

I've gone back to 1012. How can I report this to ASUS?

--
"Of course, I always look at guys who have girlfriends. I compare myself to
them, as hard as that is, and it's never good news. Then I think, gosh,
imagine looking like that. Imagine being able to approach a girl you like
and be greeted with a SMILE, rather than a look of fear or apprehension.
Imagine what that would do for your self esteem, not to mention your whole
outlook on life. Wow! That would be nice."

 

[Eric]

How did you update your bios -- the dos utility or what?

 

[Darkfalz]

How did you update your bios -- the dos utility or what?

Yes. AFUDOS that came with the BIOS. Everything else works fine, just
doesn't save the boot sequence preferences.

--
"Of course, I always look at guys who have girlfriends. I compare myself to
them, as hard as that is, and it's never good news. Then I think, gosh,
imagine looking like that. Imagine being able to approach a girl you like
and be greeted with a SMILE, rather than a look of fear or apprehension.
Imagine what that would do for your self esteem, not to mention your whole
outlook on life. Wow! That would be nice."

 

[Eric]

You may want to join (or at least read) this discussion on the 1014 bios:

http://www.abxzone.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=62373

It does not appear anyone else is reporting this. Did you load setup
defaults after flashing? Do you use RAID or SATA drives?

 

[Sharky]

Have the same problem !!!
I have used afudos /ip4p800.rom /pbnc
after flash i have load biosdefaults
all seems ok, but after reboot the system won't boot.
Back in bios is see under hard drivers only 7 x the maxtor SATA drive.
I have 7 HD's : 3 x SCSI on adaptec 39160
2 x maxtor 120 gig on raid in raid
1 x maxtor SATA not in raid
1 x WD SATA not in raid
1 x 80 gig USB drive
When i try to change the maxtor drive and enter i see all my drives but i
can't change it, so the only drive i can boot from is the Maxtor SATA, but
my bootdisk is SCSI
by loading setupdefaults i can boot only one time from my scsi, after a
reboot i have the maxtor as only bootdisk.
I hope this isn't a big bug and there i a solution for it.
This bios is much faster and i don't miss the 10 beeps of my usb devices.

 

[Darkfalz]

I hope this isn't a big bug and there i a solution for it.

This bios is much faster and i don't miss the 10 beeps of my usb devices.

Well, the solution to this bug will only be a new BIOS version. What is much
faster about it?

--
"Of course, I always look at guys who have girlfriends. I compare myself to
them, as hard as that is, and it's never good news. Then I think, gosh,
imagine looking like that. Imagine being able to approach a girl you like
and be greeted with a SMILE, rather than a look of fear or apprehension.
Imagine what that would do for your self esteem, not to mention your whole
outlook on life. Wow! That would be nice."

 

[Darkfalz]

You may want to join (or at least read) this discussion on the 1014 bios:

http://www.abxzone.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=62373

It does not appear anyone else is reporting this.

Because most people just leave that on default.

Did you load setup
defaults after flashing?
Nope.

Do you use RAID or SATA drives?

IDE drives.

--
"Of course, I always look at guys who have girlfriends. I compare myself to
them, as hard as that is, and it's never good news. Then I think, gosh,
imagine looking like that. Imagine being able to approach a girl you like
and be greeted with a SMILE, rather than a look of fear or apprehension.
Imagine what that would do for your self esteem, not to mention your whole
outlook on life. Wow! That would be nice."

 

[Darkfalz]

It does not appear anyone else is reporting this.

Someone else did:

Second: it refuses to disable floppy as boot device. I have disabled it 3
times , saved and it still checks for bootable floppy :-(

 

[Sharky]

My system boots 2 times faster with the 1014 bios.
I have send a e-mail to asus, hope they response.

 

[Eric]

That's why -- you need to load set-up defaults after flashing, exit and
save. Then reboot. Then go into bios and make modifications.

You may want to try loading set-up defaults now -- then reboot. See if you
can save your boot priorities after that -- if not, reflash and then 1st
load set-up defaults..

I flashed to 1014. I do change my boot device priorities. I have it set for
my master hard drive first, my CD rom second and my floppy 3rd. It has kept
this with 1014. It does not check for floppy since it loads via my master
hard drive 1st.

Now one other thing, kind of silly, but when I 1st when into the boot device
menu, I tried to change them with the + and minus keys. That didn't work.
You have to press enter on each one (1st, second and 3rd), then choose the
device from within the pop-up menu.

 

[Darkfalz]

That's why -- you need to load set-up defaults after flashing, exit and
save. Then reboot. Then go into bios and make modifications.

You may want to try loading set-up defaults now -- then reboot. See if you
can save your boot priorities after that -- if not, reflash and then 1st
load set-up defaults..

I flashed to 1014. I do change my boot device priorities. I have it set for
my master hard drive first, my CD rom second and my floppy 3rd. It has kept
this with 1014. It does not check for floppy since it loads via my master
hard drive 1st.

Now one other thing, kind of silly, but when I 1st when into the boot device
menu, I tried to change them with the + and minus keys. That didn't work.
You have to press enter on each one (1st, second and 3rd), then choose the
device from within the pop-up menu.

Well I found what triggers this bug. It works okay if you use all three
devices, and it does save the order. But if you set 3 or 3 and 2 to
disabled, it will reset it when you reboot.

 

[Eric]

Better to set all 3 anyway -- because then when you press F8 during post you
get those 3 choices in the pop-up boot menu. That means you NEVER should
have to go into the BIOS to change your boot preferences -- since you can do
it via the F8 pop-up menu.

 

[Sharky]

I haven't disabled anything, but why have i under "hard disks" only one disk
and that seven times
I have no problem with the bootorder, but I can't put my bootdisk to it.
After loading setup default i have my seven different harddisks, but after
reboot seven times the same disk.

 

[Darkfalz]

Better to set all 3 anyway -- because then when you press F8 during post you
get those 3 choices in the pop-up boot menu. That means you NEVER should
have to go into the BIOS to change your boot preferences -- since you can do
it via the F8 pop-up menu.

Yes, better - but it's still a bug and it should be fixed.

 

[mamebetaromgod]

Definately foobar, won't save anything in boot configuration. I am
having troubles with all 4 USB ports being plugged in at once too,
back to 1012 in the meantime, I hope someone at ASUS reads these
groups and it gets fixed soon.

 

[Ken Fox]

Definately foobar, won't save anything in boot configuration. I am
having troubles with all 4 USB ports being plugged in at once too,
back to 1012 in the meantime, I hope someone at ASUS reads these
groups and it gets fixed soon.

If you find you have a bunch of weird errors after you downgrade your bios,
it would not hurt to remove the cmos battery and short the jumpers, per the
manual.

ken

 

[Gareth Hall]

If you find you have a bunch of weird errors after you downgrade your bios,
it would not hurt to remove the cmos battery and short the jumpers, per the
manual.

ken

Did that makes no difference.

No onboard sound.

No sound for pci sblive card, something is really screwed now

 

[Ken Fox]

Did that makes no difference.

No onboard sound.

No sound for pci sblive card, something is really screwed now

If I can posit a theory, the problem may not lie with the various Asus
provided P4P800 Bioses, rather there is some sort of design issue with the
board that effects the CMOS chip and that makes flashing the chip
unreliable. This could easily effect the flash product in that you could
get a bad flash you can't fix, or you could get a good flash but some bad
residua in the circuits, like I got, which was remedied by removing the CMOS
battery and shorting the jumper.

I don't know anything about integrated circuits or CMOS chips, but it sure
seems like this is the cmos chip that won't hunt. I tried to flash it on
two different occasions (back in early Dec. and now a few days ago) and both
times there were problems, albeit more serious on the 2nd try.

I think the bottom line on flashing any bios, especially the bios on this
(P4P800D) board, is don't do it if you don't need to, and if you do need to,
you might have problems and should be ready for them.

Good luck.

ken