More Wierd KT7-RAID Problems

[DMB_AGR]

I've been trying to fool with this machine to get it up and running stable for the past 2 days and am having a real wierd problem with my NIC. My setup is:

Thunderbird 900MHz
KT7-Raid w/ RAID turned off
45 Gig WD 5400 rpm HD
ATI Radeon 32 Mb DDR Video
Hitachi DE2000 DVD Drive
2 128 meg Viking Technologies PC133 Chips
1 256 meg Kingston ValueRam PC100 Chip
InWin Full Tower case
300 watt PS

The problem is with the NICs, I have tried 3 of them. In both Windows 2000 and Windows 98SE when I goto Network Neighborhood->Properties->TCP/IP the machine either locks or the video card dies (screen goes black). I have tried the following cards:

Netgear FA310TX PCI 10/100 Card
SMC 9334 BDT PCI 10/100 Dual Card
DLink USB->Ethernet Adapter

All three result in the same problem as described above. I have tried the cards in every slot 1-6 and the same result. I know the board should be ok because I've had the SoundBlaster Live! working in it and also a Adaptec 2930C SCSI card with no problems. Any ideas? This one is really baffling me. Thanks in advance

DMB_AGR

 

[gimps]

What you should try, is take out all un-neccessary cards. Just install the NIC and video card, and see if it works. If it still doesn't, then there may be something wrong with the mobo.
Also, make sure you're running the newest BIOS.
And make sure there aren't any IRQ conflicts and whatnot.

 

[gimps]

Just read this in another post, and forgot about it. If you can get into Windows in safe mode fine, then go to Device Manager and disable the SB16 Emulation. That has caused many many people a lot of problems.
If you do that, you can also rem out the line with "sbeinit.com" in your autoexec.bat file.

 

[DMB_AGR]

Well call me stupid and I know someone will, I forgot that I didn't have the updated drivers to the ATI Radeon card, I had downloaded the Win2K ones and not the 98 ones. Went into safe mode, luckily setup the NIC ok in there went back to windows, grabbed the newest ATI drivers without it locking up (took 3 times to do that), installed them and works beautifully (for the last 10 minutes at least). Now onto the SoundBlaster and SCSI card, wish me luck

DMB_AGR

 

[BIGGDOG]

Great. I am glad to see that someone else is having luck with the KT7 Raid.

I have three and not a single problem.
After I deleted the 7 or 8 files that were causing the reboots.
Got to love the KT7 FAQ