Anyone have an AK31 rev3.1, Fortissimo 2, and Win 2k working?

[Jake52]

I just got an AK31 rev3.1 motherboard with an Athlon XP 1700 and everything was working fine with Windows 2000. I only had my Geforce 3 Ti200 card installed and then I went to put in the Fortissimo 2 and it just locked up. After I put the card in, I went to access the drive where the drivers are and the computer froze. And now every time I reset it, the thing locks up right after the OS loads. When I remove the card, it works fine again. I'm using the latest 4 in 1 drivers, with SP2, and the PCI lateny patch. Nothing seems to work. I'm wondering if anyone else out there has this configuration working right. Thanks for the help.

 

[o1die]

Look for a conflict in the device manager in the control panel. Remove any drivers that have a yellow or red exclamation mark next to them. Turn off system, and move your Fortissimo 2 to a different pci slot. Then reboot and let windows re-install the devices. This may help.

 

[Jake52]

Yeah, I tried that. There are no conflicts in the device manager.

 

[anime]

latest bios? try to install your sound card at the most bottom pci slot (slot #6 or slot #5).
Do you overclock? cpu and vid card? try to not overclock them first. I found that slot3 and 4 are sharing IRQ with some other device.

 

[Jake52]

Well, about IRQ sharing, it really doesn't matter which PCI slot I put it in becuase all the devices share the same IRQ anyway. This is because of Windows 2000 ACPI. When I go to the device manager, view the devices by connection, then open the tab that says "Interrupt Request", all my cards share IRQ 11. Right now I'm using a generic Sound Blaster PCI card and its working fine, but for some reason the Fortissimo wont work. Also, I'm not overclocking.