M7VIG Pro Problem

[Toftoon]

Has anyboby experience this: When I hook up two CD-Drive's (one is Master the other Slave) to the IDE2 port, and set the FSB to 133 (JCLK1 Jumper) the Bios locks up. If I change to FSB-100 with the exact setup, everthing works great.
If I take either of the CD-Rom's off the IDE2 bus in will boot up fine in either setting (FSB100 or FSB133).
If I reset the CMOS with both drives hooked up and FSB100 or FSB133 it will boot up with CMOS defaults loaded message the first time. If I reboot again then Bios hangs up...
Mobo: M7VIG Pro
CD-Rom
CD-R/W
AMD XP1700+
256 DDR2100
60G WD HD
On Board Video, USB, Ethernet, COM, Sound
No Modem installed.

[zepper]

I have an MSI KM2M which is very similar. It had several minor glitches while I was using BIOS ver.1.0 which were resolved with recent BIOS updates. Have you updated to the latest available version of your BioStar BIOS? Make sure you get the one for the M7VIG Pro!! Apparently the latest is ver.2.24b or f dated March 2003 at: http://www.biostar-usa.com
.bh.

[Toftoon]

I Have flashed the Mobo with the latest BIOS and the problem did not go away.

[zepper]

Try changing the order of drives on the cable and/or try changing the Master/Slave jumpering to the reverse of what it is now.
. If one drive is capable of UDMA/ATA operation and the other isn't, put the UDMA/ATA one on the cable with the HD. See if either idea helps.
Try using 80-wire cables on both channels regardless of drive capability.
.bh.

[Toftoon]

Sorry It took me awhile to get back to this problem.
I think you are right. I have tried many different combinations with ATA100 cable and without. l I still cannot get the motherboard to boot reliably. I'm debating to send the board back to NewEgg and try a different board just for the heck of it. Allbeit, I think there are issues with the BIOS on this motherboard.
Another interesting item on a different computer is the M7VIG (not the PRO) board that I have. That one was behaving wierd also, once booted into Win98SE. Sometimes I would see both drives or sometimes you could see the drive but you could not read any CD's from it. I had to go and change the setting in the Bios from AUTO (UDMA detetion) to what the drive was actually capable of. That seem to fix it in the M7VIG. However it did not fix it in the M7VIG PRO.