Fixed and 2 quick questions (bios thread)

Hi Everyone, i need your help again...
[....]. since i installed Win2k3 on my system i was getting stability problems, especially lockups to black screen in games. On Win2k3 i was using the exact same drivers as I am going to list soon, and so I thought I'd install Windows XP again on a spare hard drive to see if this helped. I wish i'd never messed with my system my previous XP install was almost 100% stable, but that's another story.
Today I perfomed these steps in this order:
1)Downloaded SP1a
2)formatted new hard drive
3)Booted from CD, did a Windows XP Pro install
4)Started XP Pro, installed SP1a
5)Installed Nforce system drivers and Display Drivers 29.42 (these were very good to me before...) and restarted
6)Installed Speedtouch USB ADSL Drivers 2.0.1.2 and went online
6.5)Enabled Hardware Acceleration on Displayt Properties
6.7) Installed direct x 9.0a web setup.
7)Did full windows update: all the critical stuff, most of the recommended (except MEssanger, Media Player and a couple others) and the CPU driver (left my Gfx and Sound on the above)
8) After a restart started a game
It lasted all of 10 seconds once I started playing.
Ok, maybe 5 seconds. Smae as Win2k3!!! I was running bios default performance options, with APIC off... so I ran Prime 95 for a while, got no errors .... about to try a memtest86 but I'm pretty cetrain the memory is good never had trouble with it before at all and I've tested it before too.
Can someone help me out? Here's my hardware config
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AMD XP 1900+ (no overclock any more)
MSI K7N420D MB
2*512MB DDR266 Samsung 'Transcend' Memory (unbranded really) (16 chip DIMMs)
Geforce 2 MX400 32MB SDRAM (unbranded - runs a little faster then onboard graphics)
Adaptec 29160LP Scsi Card
IBM 16000rpm 32GB SCSI Disk (UW-2)
2*WD1000BB 100GB Western Digital IDE Drives (the normal ones with 2mb cache) in Software Raid - 0 on Promise card
18GB Maxtor ATA66 IDE hd on Nforce, with CDR.
a Promise Ultra TX100 Dual IDE Controller card (for CD Rom + expansion)
Enermax 431w PSU / 7200rpm fan on heavy HS.
Windows XP SP1 / DX 9.0a (going to reformat to Win2003)
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I could really do with anyone's working driver config for a windows XP sp1a system, and how to build it from the bottom up. If a given driver config that works 100% for others fails for me I can start hardware troubleshooting and cursing loudly, otherwise with any luck it'll fix my problem.... please help me out i know there are people out there still running NForce 1 boards!
Quick question that could help: what sound driver revision from windows update should i be using? I can get the archived ones....
Thanks,
Naveen.
PS If i manage to fix it i'll update here, but i need a hand plz

.... also, I have the same errors running the same game from Win2k3 on a SCSI drive through the PCI bus (adaptec 29160) on the 2.7 bios. It looks like there is still an issue with fast PCI bus read/writes, sound usage and AGP card usage causing crashes. Discounting the OS change and APIC, I have these scenarios:
1) Game running off IDE drive on Nforce IDE ports: fine
2) Running of IDE drives on promise controller card: fails, locks.
3) Running off scsi drive on Adaptec 29160 card: fails, game locks.
So we may still have an issue with PCI read/writes and stability on bios 2.7 and Nforce system drivers 2.03 ... which is big news really.
I hope one of the moderators can put MSI in the picture and get them or NVidia to look into this. I can try eliminating APIC and the OS/Drivers from the issue, and install the game on all 3 drive configurations to confirm the above if necessary, but it's what it looks like from here. Using Performance bios defaults with no overclock, underclocking didnt help.
Perhaps bios 2.4 will fix this in which case the bios still needs work, 2 years on.
Naveen

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