Seing some strange slowdowns with ABIT NF7-S

elkinm

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Jun 9, 2001
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I've had a NF7-S for a few months and now I have been having some strange slowdowns.

In particular I noticed that if I play and close a video file the program closes but the audio plays for a second and at that time the system including the mouse slows down and jumps.
This sometimes happens with opened windows but is rare.

I recently updated the BIOS from v 21 to the latest 24 mostly as I did have problems with the keyboard and mouse stops responding (even though I use PS/2) which this BIOS is supposed to fix.

This BIOS reset my settings and enabled SATA raid and Fire wire which I never enabled before.
I use the latest drivers and I changed my other BIOS settings to normal.

Could the SATA and fire wire be causing bus problems as I am also using the onboard audio or could this be caused by some other BIOS or system setting I might have missed, or is his a bug with the 3.4 BIOS?

The good news is that my mouse and keyboard never stop responding, at least not indefinitely when it slows.

Thanks
 

MDE

Lifer
Jul 17, 2003
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You can redisable the SATA and FireWire in the BIOS. I'd give Abit a call or email and see what they think.