BIOS problem?

[DemonicPenguin]

I've recently upgraded my motherboard bios (in my signature) to the latest release from the chaintech website, V5.0. After having updating it I tried to run a couple of programs such as CPU-Z and the NTune utility, and both programs freeze my entire computer and force me to perform a hard reboot. When I run other programs (even intensive programs such as 3DMark03 and games like BF2 and CS:S, the applications are stable. This indicates to me that there is a problem with the latest BIOS upgrade. I re-installed my motherboard drivers to make sure, and that didn't fix the problem.

So, is this a problem that a lot of people with the latest BIOS and this motherboard are having? Or is it more isolated to me?

 

[BTA]

Their site doesnt want to load for me right now, but isnt the 5.0 driver a beta?

I think I'm using 4.7 or something like that (whatever the latest one was besides the beta bios).

I couldnt get the beta one to even update, so I just updated to the 4.7 one.

Havnt heard of this problem before.

 

[DemonicPenguin]

The V5.0 BIOS is supposedly official, as it says nothing of it being a beta on the US chaintech webserver. The last official BIOS was V4.0, which I just reverted to and everything worked fine again. So I've concluded that something with the newest BIOS has caused conflict with programs like NTune and CPU-Z that rely on the BIOS to retrieve information regarding the mobo.

 

[crucibelle]

Have a look at the Chaintech forums on pcper.com:

http://forums.pcper.com/forumdisplay.php?f=46

Other people are having problems with the 5.0 bios, as well. Might be better to go back to the previous one until the problems with the new version get sorted.