EPOX 8K7A users--need help!

[anime]

I have the following:
Sblive
Hollywood plus
10/100 NIC
PCI modem

How do I put 'em in order into the pci slot w/o causing IRQ conflict?
thanks

 

[blackhawk]

i have the sblive, 3com nic, and pci modem and mine are, from the bottom up, nic, modem, sblive in 6,5,4 then usb, fan, and blocked by vid heatsink in 3,2,1

worked for me

 

[jaggrey]

Well, I kinda threw my stuff in the system. Works fine. Here's what I got:

GeForce2 MX in AGP slot
1Mbps Phoneline/10Mbps Ethernet card in PCI 1 (PCI slots numbered 1-6, not 0-5)
10/100 Linksys Ethernet card in PCI 2
Modem in PCI 3
SB Live! 5.1 in PCI 4

Hope this helps.

 

[anime]

thanks--on mine--everything went well until i threw in my NIC...it refused to work if it shared an irq with another device....

 

[tjdavis1138]

I have two nic's, sb live, promise ata100 controller card, ati tv wonder and of course my geforce in the agp slot.

I had to play musical pci slots before it would all work together. Once I found the right combination it was fine.

 

[heffe734]

i kinda threw mine in too...and it worked fine. People usually tell me to place each card in one at a time and boot up...then shut down...then place another card in...and so on...to avoid to IRQ conflict.

 

[Aiya]

anime, you wouldn't happen to have a netgear nic do ya?

If you do, get another nic. Sorry, no other solutions available yet.

 

[ledzepp98]

thankfully i have no need for a modem...but here's what i have (with slot 1 being the closest to the vid card):

slot 1: empty
slot 2: promise ata/66 controller
slot 3: sblive mp3+
slot 4: empty
slot 5: empty
slot 6: realtek nic

the ONLY irq sharing is between the nic and the usb host controller. sometimes it just works from the start (like in my case), and sometimes it takes a bit of juggling...but in general the best way to go about it is one card at a time

 

[anime]

my nic is linksys lne100tx--it's been causing me quite a headache jugling devices....

 

[anime]

i was not aware that netgear nic have probs with the mobo
anyone know where i can find more info on this matter?

 

[mcveigh]

I'm curios about this board b/c I'm really close to getting it.
I saw on another thread about the nic card problem,

I wonder if it's a netgear or the realtek 8139 chipset that causes the problems

I saw that cause I heard someone complaing about the d-link 530tx+ nic card (which I have)

 

[WhatWasIThinking]

I just put together a system using an 8K7A and I was going to put in the NetGear FA311 from my old Dell until I found out there were problems (OK, so I tried it anyway). The 2 I have seen mentioned are some kind of spontaneous reboots and (the one I got) a "no signal input" message that comes up on the monitor (like when you turn it on but the box isn't on). As far as I know it's a lost cause. I paid 5 bucks on ebay for a new nic. If that doesn't work I'll have to shell out $20 or so for a new one.

 

[NelsonMuntz]

I put together a system based on the Epox EP-8K7A for a customer recently and bought the Netgear FA311 to put in it for him. When that card is in there it will not reboot properly. If you tell the system to reboot it will just turn off. This is really annoying when you are trying to install a bunch of software and get the thing going for the first time. I replaced it with a Linksys (I think) NIC that I got for free with a MIR, and it works fine. Don't know what the issue is with the Netgear NICs, but it sounds like a lot of people have encountered it. Don't know why your Linksys isn't going though.

 

[anime]

i put in my oldnetgear fa-310tx and it worked just fine--but now i have problems with 3dmark2001...eventhough the system run fine for 12hrs straight under sisoft sandra 2001

 

[mcveigh]

since I need two nics I might get a good 3com

 

[jaggrey]

3Com....hmm