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

[tjdavis1138]

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.

 

[tjdavis1138]

Help?

 

[Duvie]

I tried to search a bunch of places as well and couldn't find it...

go to http://www.viahardware.com/686bfaq.shtm

see if this can help you to maybe set up some physical test you can do...

 

[tjdavis1138]

Thanks Duvie

 

[MCS]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.