ASrock Dual939-VSTA Lan Driver Issues, AGP too

[aelfwyne]

I'm having a number of issues that are making me very unhappy with the purchase of the Dual 939-VSTA motherboard.

One of which is that it isn't even very compatible with Vista...

One: The lan driver, installed from the Support CD, shows limited connectivity... Repairing the connection does no good. If I let the computer enter sleep mode (which for some reason I cannot select from the menu as it is grayed out, so I just have to wait), and then wake it up, the LAN driver starts working and I can access the net (I found this tip on another forum that offerred no other solution). However, if I reboot, I lose connectivity again until Vista enters sleep mode. There is no update available from either MS or ASrock that I can find to fix this.... so what to do?

Two: The AGP driver appears to have installed with Vista by default, as it shows ULA AGP 3.0 in the system devices. There is no Vista AGP driver on the support CD. However, my video card (ATI x800 GTO) fails to start in Vista. It is not a videocard issue as the exact same videocard on my old motherboard worked just fine in Vista. It has me on a failsafe driver apparently, and thus no 3d accelleration and all the aero stuff is off. How to fix?

I've had several other problems as well... drives disappearing in BIOS, extremely long cycle times when doing a reboot (after the motherboard powers off before it powers back on), sometimes extending over a minute before the BIOS screen reloads, sometimes I just give up and cycle power...

I'm wondering if I made a mistake buying this board now. Does anybody know solutions for these problems?

 

[grooge]

is your PSU up to task ? Or did you plug every power connector?

 

[aelfwyne]

Yes, Antec True 430... it is up to task. I do believe I know how to plug power connectors, thank you very much.

 

[tcsenter]

One of which is that it isn't even very compatible with Vista...

Its eminently compatible with Vista, only the drivers are immature (or non-existant) at this point.

 

[aelfwyne]

Meh.... just as I was coming to check this thread to say I thought I'd found the problem (Cool N Quiet), my IDE drives simply "disappeared" from view. They no longer exist as far as windows is concerned. This has happened several times on this board, except this time CNQ is disabled, so it is obviously not the culprit. The system experienced some hard stuttering (froze for 3-5 seconds at a time repeatedly), before the drives disappeared.

Btw, this is in XP. Vista issues are seperate, and as pointed out, Vista isn't even technically out yet, so drivers may come along. Problem is, things like the drives disappearing have nothing to do with OS.

I suppose it shall be RMA-land ...