Newest uGuru software for AN8-SLI Fatal1ty?

[TheVoice]

Hey Abit guys, hope you can help me out with a simple query - what's the latest version of uGuru that will work for the above motherboard? I see there is a more recent version out for the AN9-boards, but will this work with mine? I ask because the current uGuru is reasonably buggy and unstable at times, and was hoping they might have actually gotten round to fixing it.

Thanks for any help.

[BUFF]

No, your board uses the 2nd generation uGuru chip so you need the 2.xx versions not the 3.xx for the 3rd generation uGuru.

afaik latest is ftp://ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/download/u...s/uguru/2.311/

personally, I find it best to setup the 3 user presets as I want & use those rather than the factory preset turbo etc.

[TheVoice]

Ah ok, thanks.

Yeah I've been using the profiles option. Got my current standard one which has all fans on slowest/off to use when my PC is just doing the usual stuff, and a gaming profile which puts all the fans to highest speed.

Not yet played around with overclocking yet though, will have to do that some time.

[spencerjw]

I know that I am resurrecting a VERY old forum topic but it's one that I found while Google'ing my issue and it seems this may help me resolve my issue. I'm not a hard-core hardware geek so please be gentle with me, I will try to explain my issues as best I can. If you need more info to help me diagnose please just ask.

I have an ABIT AV8 with a AMD 3200+ 64 CPU. I recently had issues with my computer not properly booting and mt HDD not even being seen. The only thing that I could this of to help my with issue was to upgrade the BIOS. I updated the BIOS with the latest 6.xx AWARD version which still didn't fix my issue.

Long story short, I had to use a utility I found that would basically hack the MBR, find the HDD's and boot into XP.

That was 4 months ago. Now this weekend I decided to back everything up, reformat my HD and reinstall XP for a fresh start. I pop in my XP CD and set the CMOS to boot from CD. Upon getting the message "Press any key to boot from CD" I press a key and nothing happens, it times out and boots as usual. Researching this issue I came across this board and realized that I may not have the proper BIOS for the motherboard I have. I have the ABIT AV8 with the little GURU chip and my LCD display on the board has the digits with the periods in them, does this mean I need some form of GURU BIOS or something?

Would the above be something that would cause my issue? In a desperate reach for a solution I tried installing Linux and was able to install both CentOS as well as Ubuntu from bootable CD's, even though I can't get XP to install.

Another item I just came to realize is that a problem I any be experiencing is that my XP CD doesn't have SATA drivers installed by default, what do I need to do to get those installed so that my HD's are seen during the initial initial, process?

[BUFF]

Universal abit > Motherboard, Digital Speakers, iDome, AirPace, Multimedia

Your mobo uses the VIA 8237 southbridge which is very poor at autonegotiating with SATA300 HDDs (in fairness it was developed well before they existed) - if your HDD is a SATA300 type you will need to jumper it to SATA150 mode.

The 8237 is meant to have native SATA recognition iirc but I have a strong suspicion that early production may not have had but that later did (I had an older KV8 Pro which used the same chipset & I recall needing a driver for that).

If you do need a driver then you will need to supply Windows with it using F6 & a floppy when Windows install asks if you need to supply a storage driver.

[spencerjw]

That is exactly what I was afraid of because until the XP install disc installs a few temporary drivers (such as USB) my USB keyboard won't work and the system won't recognize any keystrokes. So hitting F6 does nothing at all. I suspect that the BIOS is at fault for this but I am not certain I can get that fixed...

[BUFF]

in the BIOS set USB support to by BIOS rather than by OS.

the other way is to slipstream the driver into an install disc.