MSI OWNERS READ-->K7T Pro 2a AND Sound Card IRQ problem, Possible solution!

[illbot]

Does anyone who has the above problem causing crashes and shoddy or nonexsistant liveware2/3 installs?

Well i have that prob and the only other card onthe pci is a 3com 900nic, and a geforce2mx

Assigning irqs did not help- the cards would bunch up on the same irq regardless of settings

I went into my bios and changed PIN setting as to not have the 2 cards on the same pin. On startup the cards all appear in diferent irq's now.
There is An input device listed as the same number as the multimedia device(the sblive5.1) that says NA under irq

in windows it find a sound pci device and an pci input device ,i presed cancel and install sblive5.1 off of the driver cd...stil random crashing but I am sure sure windows just needs a clean install now.
I cannot track down all the creative tech reg's so I think its why liveware 3 messes up on install
In conclusion This is a pain in the ass and those bitches at Ct can suck my cock for buying aureal and having the lamest production cycle a monopolistic giant has ever...All other sound cards on the market suck now and its creatives fault

 

[drax]

I've battled all weekend with this mobo. Fresh install of the mobo and Win2k on Christmas. Before that had a very stable Asus p5a/AMD K6/2-500 setup with win2k. Rest of setup:

Diamond Stealth 540 Xtreme
Diamond pci modem
Diamond s90 sound card
maxtor 30gig drive
LG CDR
3com 3c905B-TX Nic

Replaced only the mobo and processor witht eh K7T Pro2a and Duron 800. The install went ok, but have had strange intermittent problems. Have come to the conclusion that the 3com has some problem with the board or via drivers which I fixed by replacing it with a cheap addtron 10/100 card. Also, there seems to still be an issue with the onboard sound.

The 3com card was supplied with my adsl install. It worked fine in NT and Win2k with the ASUS board. After swapping motherboards I had trouble with video's playing from the net. There would be jerkiness and often a complete lockup. Ocassionally during playback I would get a message that my network connection was unplugged.

I read about a zillion messages here, dejanews, Tom's and other places. Uninstalled and reinstalled drivers for sound and video. Got the latest drivers from 3com. Even went so far as to reinstall Win2k without ACPI in order to get control over the IRQ's (see MS Knowledgebase Q237556 if interested). Found a nice description of how to control the irq's and the irq's shared by the slots over on amdmb.com. Put the 3com on its own irq with much anticipation. Same problem. Got an old Addtron 10/100 nic out of a pile of unused parts. Put it in the same slot, powered up and the problem is gone. Even reinstalled Win2k with ACPI and things seem to work ok now. Except for the onboard sound, which I think is a separate issue discussed below.


My daughter played the Dracula 2000 trailer from the msn media site and got a whining or whistling sound from the onboard sound which could only be cured by restarting. I managed to duplicate this even after curing the 3com problem described above. I found one message on a board on one of the Tech websites described above (or maybe the msi newsgroup) which described the same problem. No solution yet, but may just put my Diamond soundcard back in. I had to do it for the P5A because it appears that that onboard sound chip is not completely shielded. The onboard sound sounded good until I got the Cambridge Soundworks with a subwoofer. Then I could hear every disk access as a rumbling in the onboard sound.

 

[Davegod75]

does that sound card have an aureal chipset...if so that's your problem. not the mobo

 

[Zuluwarrior]

IRQ Problems?? I dunno if that's what I'm experiencing
See what u guys think.

I went from the Epox 8kta2 mobo to the K7t Pro2a
for no good reason other than that "everybody's doin it"

My system is as follows:

K7tpro2a board
Tbird 900
GW Fop32-1 cooler
Mushkin PC133 rev2.0 256mb cas2
Antec SX830 case with 300 watt PS
Kingston TX10600 Ethernet (for adsl modem only)
Teac CDR58S and CD32S Burner and Reader (both SCSI) on an Adaptec 2903 card
SB Live Value
Elsa Erazor X (GeForce 256)
Microsoft Optical Intellimouse

Here's the crazy thing this is doin:

When I'm playing Quake3 Arena
the motion stops in the game, the sound that last was there starts cycling (over and over)
and the light on my optical mouse starts flickering and then the whole system locks up.

Everything runs flawlessly in Windows.

I have no clue if I should blame the mouse, the moboard, or the sound card.

I've reinstalled Windows, moved sound card to other slot, used another version of DX etc.

Nothing seems to work and all this on a game that ran flawlessly for me for months.

Ideas??


Thanks


Eric

 

[illbot]

what do you have on usb? change your mouse to ps2 and disable your usb on your mb to free up irq's if u can

i dono sounds weird

 

[GT1999]

Zulu, I have the EXACT same problem. It happens in Counterstrike and Quake3. Sometimes the video goes out and it does the sound loop thing and freezes. I'm returning the board for the ASUS A7V or Abit KT7 RAID.

I'm deciding which one to get right now, this is the second MSI I've had with problems.

 

[Zeppy]

I ran into the same freeze/looping sound problem before in Q3. However it had nothing to do with the motherboard. It turned out to be a setting in the BIOS. This was on my current SS7 system. It was an Award BIOS just like the MSI...I just can't remember the setting, but damn it was obvious....

Crap...well I guess I'm not helping...I'm almost certain that the mobo is not the issue and you might be wasting your time doing an RMA.

The answer is in the BIOS.

I'll shut up now. :disgust: