abit kt7a-raid mobo bios update and sb liveware conflict with dma on cdroms

[supertunger99]

Hi,

I hope someone out there can help me. I recently bought the abit kt7a-raid mobo with 1.1gHz t-bird. And like everyone was saying, the combo isn't very stable. My computer crashes about once a day, I think thats a horrible rate. (I might sell the combo and get a PIII system)

Anyways,I cant seem to download the bios update from the abit website. The connection just stalls on me so I was hoping someone out there could send me the bios update.

Also, this is the problem that really bothers me. I own a sb live 5.1 platinum and whenever I install the liveware, the dma on my cd-roms get all screwed up. I can't enable dma on the cdroms. I would enable the dma but after restarting the computer and checking the dma it's back off. It's really frusterating because I can't use the remote control that came along with the sb 5.1 plat. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me.

email me if ya want = ): supertunger99@yahoo.com

 

[forkd]

Similar problem except that when I install the software for SBlive plat 5.1 it BSOD on reboot and I think it is asking to be thrown through a wall. I told it to be careful what it asks for because it may get it, I don't want to threaten but I will kill KILL KILL!

Thank you for listening.

 

[supertunger99]

Hi forkd,

All my problems are now solved thanks to suggestions for a couple people! This is what I did to get everything working. First I put my sb live plat 5.1 sound card in the 6th pci slot and my adaptec 2940uw scsi card in the 1st pci slot. Then I changed the irq of the sb live plat 5.1 to irq#5 in the bios. After that everything works!! Good luck.