Bios 1.74 fixes firewire port on warm reboot

Just incase you missed this whilst we are waiting for right bios that fixes Newcastle core temps,the latest beta bios 1.74 has cured the problem with my firewire port that shows up as yellow symbol after a warm reboot.
Previously it would only work or be correctly identified on a cold reboot but since having this bios its been fine and staying setup correct in windows device manager although listed as "1394 net adapter #2"

Southmike,
Reading the forums here, I keep seeing references to bios versions 1.71 and 1.74 for the K8T Neo FIS2R. The latest bios update I see is ver. 1.6 dated 5/6/04. Am I not going to the correct place, or am I just confused?
Thank you,
Pat
MSI K8t Neo FIS2R
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Bonjour, from France !
Ok my firewire port does work when it has to mount a drive.
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