MSI K7T Pro2-A... would be nice if i could boot windows with it...

[CorporateSPY]

Finaly got my board, set everything up, rebooted and BAMO it wouldent load windows. It gets past the loading screen then hangs with the hard drive LED stuck on. So, I reboot... to safe mode and remove the ViA busmaster and reboot... loads SLOWLY with occasional stops, but it DOES load. Yet, when i reload the busmaster drivers it wont boot! ARGH! any suggestions would be VERRY apreciated.

 

[PCComp]

Lemme guess, your original Windows installation was performed on another motherboard. If so, you'll likely experience problem until you delete Windows and reinstall it using the new motherboard. Or, you can sometimes boot into safe mode and remove ACPI (or PnP) from the system devices in you device manager. Then reboot your system into normal mode and use the add new hardware wizard to redetect the devices in your system. This only works about 50% of the time...

 

[GT1999]

1) fdisk
2) format
3) Install 98SE or Windows 2000

 

[CorporateSPY]

Well, this IS a fresh install... it runs fine till I install the via drivers from the page... so I guess I just wont install those drivers heh. Oh well, windows 98 first edition ofcourse... had massie problems with second edition but perhaps it is time I upgraded,no? Also have a win2k cd, but dont paticularly care for 2k, if I cannot get 98 to work, though I may just have to switch over to win2k on this drive aswell. If anyon else has any suggestions as to a cure I am all ears.

 

[PCComp]

If it happens after you install the VIA 4-in-1 drivers, boot into safe mode and go into the device manager. Then, double click on your CD-ROM drive and select settings. If DMA is checked, remove it (vice/versa). Try the same for your hard drive...

 

[Killrose]

slow loading? Did you enable CPU L1/L2 cache in the motherboard bios? Tried it once, took forever to boot into windows without them enabled.

 

[CorporateSPY]

UGH! I'm running with everything now, ECEPT ultra DMA... I installed everything got it running and it stopped working, so on a hunch i disabled all udma support in bios. It just does not want to run ultra DMA!! Any suggestions? my drive is only ATA/66 I believe... is it perhaps trying to run it at ATA/100 instead of ATA/66? thanks!

Also, windows boots MUCH slower since i did all the installing THEN disabled the ultra DMA in the bios... and loads even slower since I got my 3com 10/100 working in it... go figure.

 

[mgpaulus]

> and loads even slower since I got my 3com 10/100 working in it... go figure.

How are your tcp/ip settings for your NIC?? WinBlows defaults it's TCP/IP stack to use DHCP to do address definition. So, unless you have a DHCP server for your machine, you should set your IP manually. Otherwise, Windows has to look for the DHCP, time out if it can't find one, and set some bogus IP address.

 

[Davegod75]

you need to do a fresh install of your os. that's always best

 

[holdencommodore]

I had this problem when I had a Seagate ATA 66 drive. I had the IDE Miniport driver installed. There souldn't be any problems is you install the VSD IDE drivers.
Get into safe mode (make sure you've got the lastest beta IDE drivers from viahardware.com), and install the VSD drivers.

Since I got a IBM ATA 100 drive, I could then install the Miniport drivers without any problems.

Can't gaurentee that it will work, but it's a shot.