Re: Updating BIOS

Hi David!


That´s a decent MB.

I have a KT133A MB, too. But not a ASUS. It´s not so fast and stable
like the californian BX Chipset, but it works.

With my (KT133A) MB I got the problem that it hangs with Windows XP SP2!

I tried a lot. BIOS Updates ... then I found a Service BIOS from ECS
which helped and worked with SP2. But the speed was gone ... restricted
to Clock3, restricted to PIO4 w/o DMA at the Secondary IDE, and so on.


That was not O.K. for me. So I searched on and found on a German
Magazine (C´t) a big Help.

Here it comes: Disable secondary IDE totally (in the BIOS) and just use
the Primary.
Master-HD Slave-CD for Example.

This is a bug in the VIA Southbridge not a fault of MS.

And you don´t need drivers for your Board. SP2 shipped VIAAGP.SYS and
VIAIDE.SYS which is working perfect with KT133 and KT133A!!! Just
install drivers your Gfx Card and other extensions like Sound, SCSI
(don´t work in my KT133A ;-)), network card.
Don´t care about the drivers available for the KT Chipset. SP2 is very
well.

With secondary disabled, I played hours and hours (AMD Palomino 1800,
GeForce4 ti4200, 512MB) without one freeze or hang. Before it hung
every 15min or less, sometimes it worked for hours and then again
freezed after some minutes.


If you need more than 2 IDE devices, I think the only solution would be
a PCI-UDMA Card, if it works in this Chipset. As I told, with my
Adaptec 2940 inserted, it won´t start at all ;-)


But that´s also not so important at all. Here I have just the GeForce
inserted, no other card. Installed all needed drivers for the Onboard
Multimedia (Vinyl Audio drivers). The rest is doing the SP2.

And, it´s a decent, fast and reliable machine!!! 1533MHz!!



Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic
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