Ak77-8xn "Inaccessible boot device" after flashing

Hello aopen users!

I have a Aopen Ak77-8xn board. I used to run bios r1.13 and
updated to the recently released r1.15.

After rebboting the windows 2000 boot process starts and
gives me a "inaccessible boot device" error and refuses
to go further. Here comes the panic!

I flash the bios back to the r1.13

After hours of trying this and that i finaly went to
the emergency console on my Windows 2000 Pro install CD.

And running chkdsk c: /p /r fixes this issue.
My system funktions as normal again with the
old bios r1.13

Is there a serious bug with release 1.15?
Have any other had this problem?

Anders

 

I have the some board and if i upgrade to version BIOS upper than 1.06, a
lot of files corrupt in WinXP.

I test all BIOS and i can´t upgrade.

I have a ATA133 Maxtor HardDrive 6L080J4. Someone have this model in
AK77-8xn ?

 

My hardrive is a IBM Deskstar 180GXP 120GB with 2MB cache.

It seems like some newer bioses from Aopen are dangerous to
use. NOT GOOD! Aopen MUST fix this!

Anders

 

I have used several of these board in PC's I build for my customers and
haven't run across that problem. The latest BIOS I have used though is 1.14.
From what I see on their site, the only advantage to the 1.15 BIOS is the
support of a 133 FSB Duron processor. the only thing I have run across with
Win XP and BIOS updates is that if the memory timing is changed to a faster
setting after flashing, XP gets real quirky. You might want to make sure
that the memory timings in the BIOS are the same as before you flashed. I
don't really know why XP does this, but it happened to me on a couple
boards. One of them was an AOpen AK77-333 and the other one was a Biostar
board, so I don't really think it is an AOpen problem as much as it is an XP
problem.

Chris