Major Warning about new Bios version ic15 & Audigy 2 sound card

[Paganstar]

I was doing driver updates today and have run into a major issue!. I updated my SB Audigy 2 drivers to the latest version rebooted... no problem. I then flashed my bios to the latest version which is ic15.. rebooted and I no longer had a hard drive! In the end I reformatted my hard drive and got it back up and running with Windows XP Pro... no problem. Installed the sound card drivers and the same issue came up again... no hard drive. I went to a second system and created a boot disk with the ic14 version of the BIOS and flashed it back. The system came back up with no problems. So just a warning do NOT go to version 15 of the bios.

 

[TomG]

are you talking about the IC7 board and version 1.5 of the bios? this is the first report I have heard of with respect to this issue... I have an Audigy (not the 2) and have had no issues and I have a hard time figuring how sound drivers would interfere with the hard drive detection in the bios but anything is possible...

 

[Oyou812]

Hi,
I have an Audigy 2 on an IC7-G with BIOS 15 and no problems at all. Latest drivers on everything and even O/C to 3.26GHZ, Stable as anything. Maybe you have other issues with your setup as I have had absolutely no problems with this board in anyway. Even my temps are good too. Did you pull the power lead and clear the CMOS? Have you checked the BIOS settings? I agree with Tom I can't see how a soundcard can cause a problem like yours so there must be something your not doing.
Good luck

"Paganstar" wrote:

I was doing driver updates today and have run into a major issue!. I updated my SB Audigy 2 drivers to the latest version rebooted... no problem. I then flashed my bios to the latest version which is ic15.. rebooted and I no longer had a hard drive! In the end I reformatted my hard drive and got it back up and running with Windows XP Pro... no problem. Installed the sound card drivers and the same issue came up again... no hard drive. I went to a second system and created a boot disk with the ic14 version of the BIOS and flashed it back. The system came back up with no problems. So just a warning do NOT go to version 15 of the bios.

 

[0_Qed]

TomG wrote:

are you talking about the IC7 board and version 1.5 of the bios? this is the first report I have heard of with respect to this issue... I have an Audigy (not the 2) and have had no issues and I have a hard time figuring how sound drivers would interfere with the hard drive detection in the bios but anything is possible...

Is " loss of HDs " ,
upon a re_flash,
a symptom of re_located CMOS parms in the bios 'rev_up' ???

Qed.