My MB, The mother of all problems!??

[Ekan]

Thank you for your time.
This is my last attempt, after this i do not know where to turn...

I have the Lycky-Star 6VABX2 Motherboard, running on W2000.
MB chipset is called "VIA 692BX Pro" (VIA VT82C692BX & VIA VT82C596).
Connected to it's USB's, i have a Wacom Graphire (coordless mouse/pen drawing-pad) and i Sony dsc f505 digital camera and they are both behaving in strange ways.
The Wacom pad works for everytnig between 10 min up to an hour, but sooner or later it dies.
The camera can at it's best transfer about two images before an error message apperars, telling me something like: device E: is not available, due to errors in a i/o-unit.
I am not sure what it says in english versions of W2k, since i run the Swedish version, but my translation is close enough i guess...

This is a list of some of the actions i've taken in trying to solve the problem:

*Flashed to latest BIOS & drivers.
*Got all the latest drivers, VIA (4 in one & USB-filter driver), SONY & WACOM...
*Both the VIA Universal host controller & my Soundblaster Live! appears on IRQ 10, so i tried to detatch the soundcard to eliminate the possibility of a conflict.
*Tried all kinds of drivers for the USB-connection, since W2k gave it the "unsupported" VIA-driver as default, resulting in no response when connecting the devices to it, found that the "VIA Universal host controller" seemed to be the best working...

But NONE if this took me any closer to getting them to work...

I also have an issue with the soundcard. When used with, let's say Winamp it works perfectly well and plays mp3's and .WAV, but when i visit pages on the web that uses audio (FLASH-pages)it starts to make this really annoying flickering kind of noise. It seems that the noise is related to the animations on theese pages, since the noise becomes less intense when there is fewer items moving, and you can tell that the noise is N'SYNC with the animation frame-rate..
The really strange thing is that when you open a new and maximized window on top of the flash-window, the sound is PERFECT!!! Spooky huh??

Please help a desperate swede, and if you decide to, please write to me as if i where a complete idiot, since i now commiunicatate i my second language, and i am not an expert on hardware/W2k.

Begging for an answer, be my hero...

 

[mastertech01]

Im not a win2k expert either, but I can suggest perhaps you are overloading the USB? I can tell you that the data bandwidth of a single USB host controller is only 12MB and if you try to run too many USB periferal at once, especially hogs like camera, scanner, modem, zip, WinTV USB, etc it will lock or partially lock up the program you are using.. If this is the case you will have to use additional USB host controllers onboard to solve the problem.. also USB is a ssystem memory hog.. you need plenty on board to cover your devices.. I would recommend 256MB and up to 384 if you use lots of USB periferals as I do.. This may be totally off base but something to consider.. good luck.

 

[Ekan]

Thanx a heap mr. Mastertech!
I am only equipped with 128MB, and altough my guess is that it should do the trick, but im considering alright...