A7V Woes

[KurtD]

I'm not sure what is causing my problem - motherboard, bios, windows, cards or me. I'm not going to have any hair left to pull if this does not get solved soon!

My System
Win98SE
A7V Tbird 750
128mb Pc133 (NEC)
Voodoo3-3500
SBLive Platinum (dos support disabled)
Speedstream 3060 DSL modem (PCI)
IDE ATA/33 hard drives (2)
IDE CD Rom
USB keyboard, mouse and printer
Bios: normal setting, ports disabled, P&P="Y", no other tweaks, not OCd at the moment

Symptoms:
Intermittent hangs. Windows will start to load and hang after the green screen. Reset and all is ok. Sometimes DSL won't connect or device not listed in system. Reboot, and all is ok (or maybe another hang). I tried moving the DSL card to the first slot (next to AGP). Bios flashed a message that card was sharing IRQ with the Promise controller. Windows loaded but it would not connect DSL. Moved card to another slot and it disappeared completely! Moved it to another slot and it seems to be ok, but same intermittent symptoms as above. It sounds to me like some sort of hardware conflict or defective motherboard, but I'm not experienced troubleshooting these. Where do I start? Arrrrrrgh!!!!! :disgust:

 

[hclarkjr]

try installing the cards one at a time, start out with just your video card installed then add them one at a time till you find the problem.

 

[KurtD]

Thanks, will give that a shot. Anyone else had problems like this? Is there an ideal set-up for the SB card to avoid hardware conflicts? (The SB card works fine, but could it be the reason the DSL card is acting wonky? So many questions.....so few answers...)

 

[Phuz]

You, are where I was.


What you need to do. (and it's harsh I know, but your system will purn like a cat in the end).

1. download via 4 in 1 Drivers.
2. download promise controller drivers.
3. download newest drivers fro all hardware.
4. Burn to CD.
5. FORMAT ALL.
6. Get a bootdisk with CD rom supposrt, install windows.
7. Install Via 4-1 Drivers.
8. Install Promise drivers.
9. INSTALL ONE PEICE OF HARDWARE AT A TIME! (first video, then modem, then sound)
10. reboot after the installation of each device.

 

[Phuz]

ah, sorry thought I saw that you had a burner.

Just put each set of drivers on a disk or something then

Good luck!

 

[Danlz]

Check your manual and you'll see that slot #3 is the only one that is not sharing an IRQ (assuming that you have the mobo w/o sound) and it's the best slot for your sound card.

 

[Vpham97]

ASUS A7V Troubleshooting Board

The soundcard is probably your problem.
You can try slot 3, mine still crash w/ the card in slot 3.

I just got a different sound card and my system has not crash ever since.

 

[KurtD]

I moved the DSL card into another slot then loaded the promise drivers (I had not done this before so I had an item in my Device Listing called "Mass PCI Storage" or something like that with the yellow circle next to it - I ignored it until now). I think the DSL card is in slot 3. In any case, I have been booting since w/o problems, shutting down w/o problems, surfing w/o problems, playing online games (unreal) w/o problems, etc... For now, at least. If I have another crash I'll move the SB card and start again.

 

[Brute]

That is a godawful board. I had nothing but problems with it. It probably won't like your SB Live. I know it wouldn't boot with mine in.

 

[lenjack]

SBLive uses 2 IRQ's, one for regular soun and one for DOS emulation. Use slot 3 and set IRQ 5 to Legacy in BIOS. This from Asus FAQ.