I noticed today that during the 3 hours the Asus download server was actually working (getting VBScript errors 5 days out of is really pissing me off) that version 1004.9 is up in the beta section. How is it and what does it fix?
Well, I flashed to it then to the 1004.010 and they both seemed to fix the problem with the system not POSTing on a cold boot. I can now turn my computer on and off and it will POST fine, and it will POST quickly unlike with the 1003.002 BIOS which would sometimes take minutes to POST. I can now also select 2533 instead of Manual and I can select Auto for RDRAM and it will automatically clock it at 1066 instead of giving me the "System failed memory test" recording. So far so good... I still can't disable the serial and parallel ports. An operating system won't even boot if I disable them, it just sits there. That's okay though I'll just leave them enabled.
That sounds like a pretty good improvement. Other than the booting problems, were you stable at 1066 before? How about now? For me when I run 1066 I get BSOD, reboots, failed drivers and programs, etc. after a few hours. I am currently waiting for new RDRAM before I try anything else...
It was 100% stable before as well as now. It can survive long hours of abuse (benchmarking, 3D games, video editing, etc) without a problem. It's flawless once within Windows, it's just the BIOS that seems to cause little problems.
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