What is the test to determine if I have the 686B bug with my Live

tjdavis1138

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I remember reading a month or so ago about a program that will test your machine to see if you have the 686B bug or not. I can't find it in the search. Anybody know where I can get it?

Thanks,

Tom


I'm running an Epox 8k7a.
 

MCS

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As far as I am aware you need to have your HD on IDE 1 as Master and your CD-ROM on IDE 2 as Master and copy a file which is larger than 100MB from the CD-ROM onto the HD. It should start copying and then crash, either with a BSOD or just a complete freeze (my PC actually rebooted itself). You should then be able to remove the Live! and the problem will go away.
 

X14

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You'll know if you have a 686B southbridge problem because it will drive you nuts beyond your wildest imagination.

It's the most frustrating computer problem you will ever experience, trust me, I know.
 

Jorrit

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just flash the newest bios available from your motherboard manufacturer. should work fine. sure did for my asus a7v133 (rev 1005 available from the german site)
 

tjdavis1138

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I have my dvd on master as slave and cd-rw on secondary as slave. My hard drive is connected to my promise ata100 pci controller card.

Would the bug affect my dvd and cd-rw if I'm trying to do a disc-to-disc copy?

I'm pretty sure it won't affect my hard drive being on the controller card.
 

bigbootydaddy

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download a large file and play something in winamp...you get funky music sometimes...or my computer is trying to talk to me. either way its bad.
 

MCS

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I am 99% sure there has to be a HD on there and that it affects files being copied from IDE 2 to IDE 1.