Hi Phil,

Pretty much yes. I had loads of problems with ASUS board initially!!
When I put the ATA 100 drive in I had to upgrade the bios several
times plus the promise drivers and then the message started to
appear. Initially I thought it was a problem when I flashed the data
across to the new hard drive so I did it again using the Maxtor
utility from their website but no joy!!

My system is:
GA-7ZXR motherboard
900Mhz T-bird
Maxtor 30.7 ATA100 HD
ATI Rage Fury 32MB
SB live value
Rockwell Modem
10/100 network card
HP Scanjet 4200i USB Scanner
Microsoft Strategic Commander USB
Windows 98

The problem is clearly the promise drivers as I have tried different
boards and musltiple promise drivers. I am going to disable the
stimon.exe in the msconfig but am worried that the strategic
commander will cause conflicts as it is also USB but I will let you
know.

With regards to what ASUS say. I have been looking at the website for
about 2 months and they have said nothing. All the info I have got
has been from the www.asusnetq.com.tw/english. This is all the users
posting Q & A's.

Hopefully a fix will come soon as I get this message abot 75% of the
time when I boot. Curently I have moved the HD to the IDE connector
as I have seen messages from people about their HDs crashing as they
have been reseting so much.

Andrew

--- In volumebug@egroups.com, Phil Burk <philburk@s...> wrote:
> Hello Andrew,
>
> Andrew Borissow wrote:
> > I have just exchanged my A7V for the above board in the hopes
that it would
> > solve this problem but to no avail. The board still uses the
promise drivers
> > so I expected that the problems would still occur.
>
> Did the problem appear right away with the new board or was there an
> apparent trigger? I suppose you just swapped in your old drive so
> everything was already installed.
>
> > Is anyone else having this problem on the Gigabyte board?
> > Do the fixes mentioned in this group apply to the gigabyte boards
as well?
>
> You're the first so you get to tell us! If you send me your stats I
will
> add a row to the table.
>
> > There is no mention of this on the GA website whereas there is on
the Asus
> > site.
>
> I looked on the ASUS site but I can never find anything because of
all
> the broken links and dead ends. What does ASUS say?
>
> --
> Phil Burk
> http://www.softsynth.com