ASUS A7V133 Problems

[kaps]

I just got an A7V133 and installed a Thunderbird 1.2 CPU in it running under
Windows 2000 and am generally good results. My Wintune scores are quite
impressive (2355 MIPS & 918 MFlops) but something's actually seem to run
slower than a 386. Printing on my HP LaserJet takes an eternity. My
SoundBlaster Live 3.0 Mixer won't even come up and, now here is the
clincher, if you win at Solitaire the cards flop down real slow, like the
386 I mentioned. The system doesn't map to my external Zip drive or my flash card reader unless they have media in them.

Do I have a BIOS setting wrong, running with most of the setup defaults. It is a
clean install of Windows 2000. I have installed the new Via update (4 in 1
4.29) and both the AMD registry patch and Miniport 5.22.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Karl:disgust:

 

[Plester]

apparently the board has issues with win2k, it's been noted by a number of reviewers as well as users.

 

[kaps]

Thanks Plester. This really gets me as I feel like I've wasted all that time upgrading only having to reinstall a 9x OS!

Is there any hope that ASUS will make some BIOS corrections and fix the incompatabilities?

Karl

 

[Dulanic]

Plester is spewing CRAP. And he continues to do so because one reviewer said he had a problem. Did you do a fresh install with this board?

 

[kaps]

Yes I did, but I did the install with the HDs connected to the MB controller and then switched them to the Promise controller because of problems getting Windows 2000 not recognizing the drives.

I also noticed that my ATI AIW Radeon, Sound Blaster Live Platinum 5.1, NetGear Card, Adaptec SCSI card and all my USB devices, of which I have many, are all mapping to IRQ 9, but I understand that is a ?virtual? interrupt.

Really appreciate your help!!!

Karl

 

[Dulanic]

You can try reinstalling and during setup when it says "Press F6 to install SCSI/RAID drivers" press F5 and select Standard PC, that will turn off ACPI which can cause problems for some people.

 

[kaps]

Do you mean a complete clean install or a reinstall? If the later then I really don't have the bandwidth for that right now, cause I'll need all my strength for my wife killing me.

Karl