Problem with Jetway 663AS/663ASpro and possibly SBlive

[eipmihc]

Hi I hope someone can help with my problem, although to be honest I'm not even sure what's going wrong. However I think it must be bios related. Sorry if this is a bit longwinded.

My system is a 1000Mhz Athlon , 512MB RAM, Nvidia geforce2 MX400, SBLive platinuim 5.1 running on a jetway 663AS/663ASPRO. Running XP pro.

I'd started to have problems when playing videos and games and occasionally when playing mp3s, windows media audio files and when using fruityloops studio, where the system would hang.
For a while I was unsure what was causing the problem, but I eventually figured it must be due to my soundcard as that seemed to be the only common factor. I tried reducing the sound quality in the soundcard performace settign sand this seemed to cause it to happen less often.
I checked in event viewer in the administration tools and the error messages there suggested it was an acpi issue.

I couldn't find too much information regarding ACPI online, however the microsoft website suggested that the best thing to do would be to update the bios. Possibly a little foolishly (considering I wasn't clear on what I was doing) I decided to follow this advice.

The Bios information on bootup was:

Award modular bios v6.00pgn
V.663AS/663ASPRO A06 02-12-2001
and
02/09/2001-8363-686A-6A6LMJ19C-00

So I downloaded the 663asa15.bin update from teh jetway website http://www.jetway.com.tw/evisn/index.html

It all seemed to update properly and on boot up the bios information had changed to:

Award modular bios v6.00pgn
V.663AS/663ASPRO A15 12-14-2001
and
12/14/2001-8363-686A/B-6A6LMJ19C-00

Unfortunately now it hangs all the time, it's even hung on the BIOS setup screen at times.

I tried reinstalling windows and it got a little better, in that it didn't hang straight after windows booted up, but instead a little while afterwards. I've tried updating everything else I can think of, chipset drivers and my graphics card etc. This hasn't had any effect. Until I installed the soundcard drivers at which point it got even worse.

Having read this article http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2001m ... 005090.htm

I'm even more confused now as it all ran fine for around a year on the via kt133 chip. And other than hanging on videos, it worked more often than not recently.
Unfortunately I can't even go back to my previous bios (663asa06?) as I failed to save it properly.

Hopefully some of this will make sense to someone, as I really have no idea. Sorry if my explanations aren't very clear.

Is it an ACPI problem , could it be because I updated my bios?
Any suggestions would be gratefully received as I'm at my wits end beginning to feel a bit silly.

Thanks,

Michael Craig

[KURIAKI]

Unfortunately I can't even go back to my previous bios (663asa06?) as I failed to save it properly.

ftp://ftp.jetway.com.tw/bios/663as/

[eipmihc]

Thanks KURIAKI.

I've now got myself back to where I was before I followed microsofts advice. Random freezes when watching videos, playing games or even just on the desktop sometimes. Generally accompanied by a bit of sound looping.
I now realise this probably isn't a bios problem or acpi. It seems to be relatively common however ( http://forum.osnn.net/showthread.php?t= ... nextoldest , http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic13978.html ).

Yet to find a solution though.

Michael