Hello everybody,
I am hoping that someone can offer some suggestions. I have an older system that I would like to slowly upgrade...for the time being I am stuck with this.
Ultra TX2 installation problems, seem to be related to memory resources conflict, with the video card (?) primarily.
No problem with IRQ.
System spec:
- Win98SE
- PII300
- Gigabyte 686LX motherboard (ATA33 on-board controller)
- BIOS rev. 2.4c supporting up to 40G drives
- PCI 2.1
- 192 MB SDRAM
- recently new Seagate 7200.7 40G ATA100 drive (has been running great on on-board IDE)
- 3COM 905-PTO network card
- ATI Rage Pro 8MB AGP video card
- Voodoo 2 PCI video card
- Soundblaster soundcard ISA (I know, don't laugh, does the job for what I need)
I wanted to utilize the ATA100 capability of the Seagate drive, by adding
the Promise Ultra TX2 controller.
- initial try per ULTRA TX2 instructions - system hanged after win boot menu (which I left enabled)
(*) could boot into 'SAFE' mode
- repeated using different PCI slots - same result
- removed NIC and Voodoo card
- repeated - same result
Connected drive back to on-board IDE controller, removed TX2
- prepared boot diskette with latest TX2 bios and drivers
- reinstalled TX2 and updated bios - OK
- booted OK, detected TX2, and installed drivers from diskette
- rebooted OK to desktop, except video problem - win reported video card conflict
- Device Manager (Resources) indicated memory conflict
- IRQ 'OK' on IRQ3
Details of memory conflict, as shown under 'Resources Tab'
- conflict with 'system board extension for PnP bios'
- conflict with 'ATI RAGE Pro video card'
- and Video card conflict with PnP bios (as above)
Tried to change memory settings i.e. unchecked 'Use automatic settings' under 'Resources Tab'
- would not allow change for video card or PnP bios
- allowed change for TX2 - changed to 'no conflict' regions
- this refreshed the ULTRA TX2 on the Device Manager to 'OK' status (i.e. no yellow exclamation marks)
- video card still showed conflict with 'PnP bios' at this point
- rebooted - hang up after win boot menu...
Removed TX2. Back to on-board IDE.
Any suggestions how to resolve this would be much appreciated.
Thank you.
sp
