k7s5a help

[lowie]

I recently installed this new mobo with an amd 1133mhz/256mb crucial ddr, voodoo 3 3000. I reformatted and did a clean install of win98. Now I am encountering a couple of small problems. First, the board doesn't always detect my primary hd, I sometimes have to enter the bios setup and manually set the hd parameters to have the board detect the hd properly. Then the board came with a cd rom that has an auto install setup program that is supposed to install all of the boards drivers, (VGA, LAN, etc.) When the program gets to the audio driver, (sis635, I believe) the system encounters a sever error and cannot install that driver. All of the other drivers install fine. Any suggestions, or should I just assume it is a bad board and RMA it? This is only the third rig I have put together and I had no trouble with the first two, an asus p5a based system and an ecs k7vza based system. Anyone who may have encountered this or a similar problem please let me know how you resolved it so I can enjoy the white box that does so much

 

[Tom]

This is mostly a bump so that maybe someone else can help you.

I didn't use the onboard audio so I don't have personal experience installing the drivers.

You didn't mention what hard drive you are using. Generally the hard drive should be connected using the 80-pin cable. The blue end of the cable goes into the blue connector on the motherboard, and the hard drive into one of the other connectors. If you are having troubles you might try switching which connector you connect the hard drive to.
The CD drive should be connected to the black ide connector on the motherboard, using the 40-pin cable.

If you had to change anything to get your computer set up this way, you might need to clear the cmos if the new arrangement isn't automatically detected.

As I said, this is mostly a bump in case someone else can help you.

Good luck!

 

[lowie]

The hd is an older wd 4 gig 5400 rpm unit. I had to rma my maxtor 15gig 7200 rpm due to a bad memory block. I think the hd is on the blue and the cdrom is on the black. I was not aware that I might have to change the configuration of them being that it worked on a k7vza. BTW, thanks for the bump.

 

[Tom]

You might try downloading the audio drivers from ECS, and installing them that way. Maybe there is an disk error on your install CD.
Also since your using an older HD maybe you need to use an older 40-pin cable to connect it. I'm just speculating but maybe it doesn't like the 80-pin cable for some reason. Or maybe since the drive is an older one, the auto-detect feature of the motherboard is having trouble identifying it.


ECS downloads

 

[NelsonMuntz]

Did you try downloading and installing the newest drivers for your board from ECS? See if this works for you.

 

[lowie]

I never thought that there might be a disk error on the supplied cd so I will not only try the ecs drivers from their site i will wait for my maxtor to be returned, should have gotten it back already and just play with that one rather than mess with this old one. Thanks for your help.

 

[lsman]

did u set the jumper of the HD (primary) and CDROM (slave) right? If so, may be try Cable select for both of them. Ask WD tech. support for help are also another way. They have quick service.

 

[lowie]

The jumpers are set correctly on the hd and the cd rom. I have the hd set as primary on ide0 and cdrom/cdrw on ide1, on as master and the other as slave.

 

[osage]

I have seen a number of post at various forums stating not to use any of the drivers on the install disk, or at least not to let them auto install.

I downloaded and intalled the AGP, IDE and sound drivers,lan drivers and installed them without using the setup.exe program and have had no problems with it... the install CD has never been out of the jacket

 

[lowie]

I not only will try that but I also noticed from delving into the official k7s5a thread that the audio drivers supplied do not work with win 98....only 98se and newer....I guess xp(extra profit) is next on my wish list.