Bios update on KT7-RAID causes Win XP not be able to boot... HELP!

[iotone]

I dunno if anyone has had this problem, but I'm currently running BIOS version ZT for my Abit KT7-RAID... I have Win XP Pro installed... So I've tried several times to update my BIOS to the latest version (A9), and every time I do, I'll get the Win XP splash screen, then it will reboot... then when it would reboot, I would get the splash screen, and I'd get the menu for starting in safe mode, etc... I'd try to start normally, and I'd get a reboot... this continually happens... Sometimes I'd even get a BSOD of some sort, and it would cause my system to reboot... the only way I could get everything running again is to re-flash back to version ZT.

I also had this problem when I was running Win 2K Pro on my system... I thought it was just something with Win 2k, but apparently it's something else... after many tries, I've come up confused.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this may be happening?? Thanks.

 

[mechBgon]

Are you booting from a drive (or array) that's connected to the RAID ports instead of the standard IDE ports?

 

[iotone]

I'm booting from the standard IDE ports... any other ideas?? thanks.

 

[gdtaylor]

Are you overclocking? Check that the processor is correctly configured in the BIOS. Try underclocking your processor (set the FSB to 100MHz/33MHz).

 

[Bleep]

OK here is a question for you. I am asking because over the last year I have been compiling a list of why users update their BIOS.
Why do you desire to update the BIOS?
Bleep

 

[iotone]

Originally posted by: gdtaylor
Are you overclocking? Check that the processor is correctly configured in the BIOS. Try underclocking your processor (set the FSB to 100MHz/33MHz).

i'm overclocking a 750 athlon to 1 gig, so i guess i'll try underclocking and i'll see what happens... thanks for the suggestion!

Originally posted by: Bleep
OK here is a question for you. I am asking because over the last year I have been compiling a list of why users update their BIOS.
Why do you desire to update the BIOS?
Bleep

updating your BIOS is important to having a smooth system running... just like updating to new versions of software, updating to new versions of BIOS will help with problems and will often give some enhancements... although it's not like going from Win98 to WinXP, every little update helps =)

 

[mastertech01]

Maybe your updated bios is somehow alerting WinXP that you have made some major hardware change and you know what happens when it thinks you have copied to a second system.

 

[iotone]

Originally posted by: mastertech01
Maybe your updated bios is somehow alerting WinXP that you have made some major hardware change and you know what happens when it thinks you have copied to a second system.

that could be something happening, but it also happened to me when i was running Win2k Pro on this system a few months ago...