K7S5A Bios Reset problem

[crobusa]

I have a friend who I built a system for:
K7S5A (onboard sound/lan)
1800+ XP
120 gb Western Digital SE
Dualboot 98SE/XP Professional
Mustek A3 EP Scanner (EPP)

He uses his scanner often, and in order for it to work it must be set from SPP to EPP. Every two weeks the bios is reset for some reason, without a "low" battery error. (133/133 is reset to 100/100, SMART is disabled, password on bios gone.) He was using the scanner when the light froze, he rebooted the machne, and defaults were reset w/o message. I sucessfully flashed the bios a month ago when rebuilding the system.. I replaced the battery today, but this mobo is 6 months old. Can a bad flash keep resetting the defaults? Also the XP "please activate before I self-destruct" timer went from 20 days to 0. (Was waiting to the last second to add hardware to XP's dump.)

Thanks for the help.

BTW, his old system was a w95 machine. He burned some CDs to using HP's CD-writer software (w95 only), and never finished the sessions. On the new machine XP and 98 lock up when the CD's are entered then locked up when put in the machine again.. One CD could be read, but choked duing the copy to HD and then locked up when put in the machine again.. Can XP native buring not handle multi-sesson? Is the TOC somehow corrupt or incompatable?

 

[GAZZA]

How was the system prior to flashing the bios ?

Did you have the scanner connected then or not untill your friend received the pc ?

Maybe worth going back to the original bios to see if that will resolve his issue .

I'm not really sure on the Native XP burning app as I don't use it myself , prefer either Nero,CdClone or Fireburner to make my cd's with .
Hp's software is usually a version of Adaptec's Easy CD Creator , have you tried installing that .

Also XP doesn't have any ASPI layers so you have you manually istall them yourself , you can get the latest version Here

 

[crobusa]

Scanner wasn't connected at the flash, it works great now, until the port setting reverts to the standard SPP. I'm going to reflash if the new battery doesn't fix the problem.
Before the flash, it was running a corrupted copy of 98se. I was told "files named kernel and registry keys were deleted to try to fix some game lockups." :Q This particular problem didn't come up.

Thank you GAZZA, didn't know about ASPI before you mentioned it.