Realtek Gigabit Boot Agent

Hi
I have just upgraded the BIOS to V 1.7 and after going through and changing settings, the machine generally boots up fine, although it does lock up occassionally at teh "Scanning for IDE devices" and something about "Realtek Gigabit Boot Agent". I simply have to press restart and it boots up fine next time, but I would like to do what the Realtek thing bob is for. Is it to update the BIOS on the Ethernet device? I didn't get it with my previous BIOS v1.1.
If any of you learned people can help I would be gratefully appreciative.
Rgds
Martin
AMD 64 3200+
2 x 512M of Corsair XMS DDR
K8T Neo - motherboard
Antek 430W PSU
Hercules 9800 Pro graphics
Audigy
Toshiba DVD
Lite-on CD-ROM
2 x WD 34G Raptor HDD running in RAID
1x WD 160GB HDD

...if you use the onboard LAN for your internet connection, leave it alone...you can confighure it to not show the message by pressing the keystroke combo to enter it, but it won't save any boot time...if you are using another network adapter or dial-up then you can disable it in Integrated Peripherals...

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Quote from: kakarocht on 01-September-06, 22:59:01
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