Abit NF7S, Winbond Hardware Doctor alarm problem

[at.bo]

Since a few weeks I'm using a new PC based on:
Motherboard: Abit NF7(-S) v2.0 with chipset nVIDIA nForce2 SPP, Bios rev. 16 AMD Athlon XP, 2000 MHz (7.5 x 267) 2400+
Video: Gigabyte Maya Radeon 9000 Pro (64 Mb)
HD: Maxtor 6Y080P0 (80 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
Microsoft Windows XP Professional - Service Pack 1

I installed Winbond Hardware Doctor 2.70 which is a self-diagnostic system for PC (temperature, fan speed etc.) and is linked with a Winbond chip on the motherboard. After a few days without problems, everytime the WinXP boot logo appears (before the users welcome screen) an alarm start to toll and it stops only after entering with my username + password, when the Hardware Doctor software automatically starts. If I disable Hardware Doctor from starting with the system, the alarm goes on. I don't have any alarm also if I "restart" the PC.

Should I uninstall the Hardware Doctor software?
Is there any bug here?
Any suggestion?

Andrea (I)

 

[Mark H]

Try unloading hardware doctor and see. right now i'm using motherboard monitor {mbm}. If you've been fiddling with pc-health status bios menu - there is an issue if both cpu-shutdown and cpu-warning are enabled. when they're both on- the siren will sound on boot up for win2k and winxp. the new bios 17 for ver 2.0 solves this which was released a couple of days ago.

at.bo wrote:

Since a few weeks I'm using a new PC based on:
Motherboard: Abit NF7(-S) v2.0 with chipset nVIDIA nForce2 SPP, Bios rev. 16 AMD Athlon XP, 2000 MHz (7.5 x 267) 2400+
Video: Gigabyte Maya Radeon 9000 Pro (64 Mb)
HD: Maxtor 6Y080P0 (80 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
Microsoft Windows XP Professional - Service Pack 1

I installed Winbond Hardware Doctor 2.70 which is a self-diagnostic system for PC (temperature, fan speed etc.) and is linked with a Winbond chip on the motherboard. After a few days without problems, everytime the WinXP boot logo appears (before the users welcome screen) an alarm start to toll and it stops only ...

 

[Downtown]

I too have experienced the same problem with enabling this in the BIOS settings. You mentioned a BIOS v.17, I could not locate this revision on Abits's website. The latest they listed was 16. Where can Rev. 17 be found? Thanks in advance for you assistance. "Mark H" wrote:

Try unloading hardware doctor and see. right now i'm using motherboard monitor {mbm}. If you've been fiddling with pc-health status bios menu - there is an issue if both cpu-shutdown and cpu-warning are enabled. when they're both on- the siren will sound on boot up for win2k and winxp. the new bios 17 for ver 2.0 solves this which was released a couple of days ago.

at.bo wrote:
Since a few weeks I'm using a new PC based on:
Motherboard: Abit NF7(-S) v2.0 with chipset nVIDIA nForce2 SPP, Bios

rev. 16

AMD Athlon XP, 2000 MHz (7.5 x 267) 2400+
Video: Gigabyte Maya Radeon 9000 Pro (64 Mb)
HD: Maxtor 6Y080P0 (80 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
Microsoft Windows XP Professional - Service Pack 1

I installed Winbond Hardware Doctor 2.70 which is a self-diagnostic system for PC (temperature, fan speed etc.) and is linked with a Winbond chip on the motherboard.
After a few days without problems, everytime the WinXP boot logo appears (before the users welcome screen) an alarm start to toll and it stops only after entering with my username + password, when the Hardware Doctor software automatically starts.
If I disable Hardware Doctor from starting with the system, the alarm goes on.
I don't have any alarm also if I "restart" the PC.

Should I uninstall the Hardware Doctor software?
Is there any bug here?
Any suggestion?

Andrea (I)

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[Ola Thorn]

I too have experienced the same problem with enabling this in the BIOS settings. You mentioned a BIOS v.17, I could not locate this revision on Abits's website. The latest they listed was 16. Where can Rev. 17 be found? Thanks in advance for you assistance.

Hi

You can find it here:

http://fae.abit.com.tw/eng/download/index.htm

Best regards..

/O.T.