I was hoping members of this board might have some advice for me as my board had been nothing but trouble.
My Setup:
Iwill KK266-R, 1.33 Ghz Thunderbird (not OCed), 256mb Crucial PC150 Cas2, LeadTek MX2 DH Pro, 40 gb Western Digital HDD (on loan for data backup) & 30 gb IBM HDD, Pioneer 116 DVD, Fong Kai 302 Case w/ 300 watt AMD approved power supply, originally had SB Live! but now removed, most current BIO (April 16 I believe)
To say that I've had problems is an understatement. I have installed Win 98SE ~20 times since Monday. I would continually get Registry corruption, lockups, and endless resests for hardware configuration. I removed the SB live and this seems to have helped a little. I am still getting corrupt registry messages. I can run Norton SystemWorks, have it report no problems, reboot, and have a corrupt registry message.
Additionally, the system "felt" very slow. My original system was a K6-2 @ 500mhz and this new MB/Chip felt" slower. For instance, when typing a message, the computer coult not keep up with my typing. Also when ran multiple sessions of IE 5.5, there is a long pause when I switch between windows. I solved that by disabling the mixer for the onboard audio. Who wrote that junk?
To "solve" these problems, I spent a huge amount of time on the phone with Creative. We ended up manually assigning IRQ's to the PCI slots which has not been changed. Also, I am running George's PCI latency patch as a solution but it hasn't made much difference. I am not sure if there is more recent VIA chipset - I'm using the one on the MB CD.
Any help, comments, etc, would be apprecitated.
My Setup:
Iwill KK266-R, 1.33 Ghz Thunderbird (not OCed), 256mb Crucial PC150 Cas2, LeadTek MX2 DH Pro, 40 gb Western Digital HDD (on loan for data backup) & 30 gb IBM HDD, Pioneer 116 DVD, Fong Kai 302 Case w/ 300 watt AMD approved power supply, originally had SB Live! but now removed, most current BIO (April 16 I believe)
To say that I've had problems is an understatement. I have installed Win 98SE ~20 times since Monday. I would continually get Registry corruption, lockups, and endless resests for hardware configuration. I removed the SB live and this seems to have helped a little. I am still getting corrupt registry messages. I can run Norton SystemWorks, have it report no problems, reboot, and have a corrupt registry message.
Additionally, the system "felt" very slow. My original system was a K6-2 @ 500mhz and this new MB/Chip felt" slower. For instance, when typing a message, the computer coult not keep up with my typing. Also when ran multiple sessions of IE 5.5, there is a long pause when I switch between windows. I solved that by disabling the mixer for the onboard audio. Who wrote that junk?
To "solve" these problems, I spent a huge amount of time on the phone with Creative. We ended up manually assigning IRQ's to the PCI slots which has not been changed. Also, I am running George's PCI latency patch as a solution but it hasn't made much difference. I am not sure if there is more recent VIA chipset - I'm using the one on the MB CD.
Any help, comments, etc, would be apprecitated.
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