INTEL 86X/87X/84X BIOS Warning

[Spheris]

Intel released a bios update on the last week that has intermittently failed in house and with CD's created through CREATE with the SATA enabled but inactive (zero drives linked or attached), which is causing either boot or t-13 halts. Intel is looking into an update or reversal to an earlier revision (apparently it is a speed down in the SATA firmware which extends itself into the ATA channels and cannot recover during standard setup as acpi is not system actuated until first boot for power management) I'll get the full list of affected later today

but the PERL/PERLK/PERLC are affected by it in .14 release

Just a word of caution and be careful out there.