There is a new BIOS v1.1K just out on their site (USA link didn't work, I got it off the Taiwan one) that claims to fix the USB hanging issue specifically, dated 8/10/06. Has anyone tried it yet? I have to head off to work now...
I wish I could find the original link to another forum that explained this tool, but as I recall (& yes this is very platform dependent & it isn't for XP64):
Launch the Compatibility Administrator program (not the Toolkit Framework)
Under Custom Databases, click on the New Database/untitled...
There seems to be some confusion about what the MS hotfix corrects. It only fixes Cool 'n Quiet + power management being enabled which causes the AMD X2 cores to get assigned active tasks even though they've been throttled back. Installing the Hotfix doesn't do squat to fix certain issues with...
Also I believe Nvidia has acknowledged a bug in FTP transfers in the latest (Oct 05) version, which silently corrupts files. I think a German magazine discovered it first (c't?).
With the USB 2.0 lockups, I got them within 45-60 minutes. I first encountered it with retrospect express 6.5 bundled with the western digital external USB drives. My brother provoked the crash by endlessly loop replaying an MPEG file stored on a USB flash drive, and walking away--always crashed...
There also seems to be some question about whether USB 2.0 works reliably on this board at least under Windows XP. My brother & I had two of these motherboards that both freeze with heavy USB 2.0 use. Unclear if bad batch, or ECS issue, or even an Nforce 4 issue (this has been reported with...
My brother & I both got reproducible lockups with USB 2.0 engaged and heavy use of the USB 2.0 ports under Windows XP SP2--I don't think he has had the same problems with Linux. (External WD USB 2 hard drive, USB2 flash drive, USB2 wireless all did this) I haven't had lockups once I forced the...
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