Need Help with Soyo 6BA+IV !!!!!!!!!

[CraigRT]

Hey guys, I have a PIII 450 in a Soyo SY-6BA+IV and sometimes it refuses to boot properly... i get the following message:

"Write Fault error writing device AUX"
"abort, retry, ignore, fail?"

Can anyone help ???
I really don't know why it does this, only sometimes
I believe it was after i installed the HPT drivers for UDMA 66

SOMEONE HELP ME

 

[Frenchie]

Do you have the newest bios for the Soyo? How about the newest HPY drivers?

 

[narciarz]

Don't use High Point that comes with that board, even after upgrading to newest drivers and flashing to newest bios I had problems booting into win2000, same error(worked fine on 98)
Now I'm using this board on my server without High Point. Good luck.

 

[Frenchie]

narciarz:

Did you make sure that no other device (ie sound card) is using IRQ5?

 

[narciarz]

Frenchie:

I sure did. I spent hours under win 2000 to figure out that problem but I would get that error about 75% of the time. If it did get past booting process it was working fine. I never had any problems with Win98 or NT. When I got blue screen of death there was an error code pointing to High Point file. I was using Matrox 20 gig dimond plus h/d.

 

[4824guy]

Try installing the new Highpoint Drivers for windows 2000, if that is what your using.

 

[narciarz]

Like I said in post above I did install new drivers but they didn't work on this board. My friend didn't have those problems no Abit board (dual celeron) with Highpoint chipset under win2000.

 

[CraigRT]

Thanks guys, actually all i did was move the Primary master to the HPT controller and it works fine now... kinda weird but that's that..
and now when it boots up it says i'm running ATA33 on my older WD 10.2 GIG drive.. all is fine unless i run it on IDE 1

oh well!!!
thanks for your replies!!

 

[ArkAoss]

i hope i can resurect this dead thread, ijust switched over to the 66 controller for my hd, and i think i had a bad cable so i left my dvd on the 33 controller, but every time i boot up, it shows that msg you get at the end of a new device setup before i even get to set up the drivers for the high point, and also you suggest i keep other stuff of irq 5?? in win 98se

 

[Frenchie]

ArkAoss:

The Highpoint Controller uses IRQ5. If you have a sound card (or other device) using this IRQ, you will have aconflict which will lock up Windows.

1. Make sure that you have your HDD set to ata/66
2. Use an ata/66 cable to connect it to the ata/66 ide.
3. Make sure that you set the bios to boot from scsi and to recognize scsi.
4. Keep IRQ 5 free.
5. When going into windows, let it install the latest drivers downloaded from the HPT site.
6. Should run fine. May have to turn DMA on in Win.

 

[ArkAoss]

i actually have a dvd decoder on 5 that wont get off, but i've had no lockups got the latest hpt drivers from manufact web site, wondering though, are 5400 rpm drives 66 capable? and will cdrom drives see an advantage to using udma 66? will dvd's?

 

[Frenchie]

There are some ata/66 5400rpm drives around, but you need to check the manufacturers web site to see if your specific model is ata/66. As far as I know, there are no cd-rom or dvd drives that are ata/66. The high speed cd-rom drives (especially the Kenwood true-x) might see a slight performance gain, but not much. If you stick an ata/33 device on the ata/66 ide, the ide will revert to ata/33.

 

[ArkAoss]

if i doo have an ata 33 device and a a66 device, will both devices drop to 33? probly right?

 

[Frenchie]

If both devices (ata/66 and ata/33) are on the ata/66 ide, then I believe that the answer is yes, both will drop to the ata/33.

 

[CraigRT]

I've ditched the PIII 450 system and decided to stick this bad-ass mobo in my own computer
it takes my PIII 700 up much higher than my crappy P3B-F
(good board, but bad for overclocking)

and it's stable at 137 FSB - 959 but locked once on me
so i just decided to run it at 135 FSB
i only have voltage increase to 2.5% so that's like 1.7V which is in spec for a PIII 933 i believe
my system runs sweet now, so much better than my old board

144 FPS in Q3 at 1024x768 with my GF2 OC as well

all i did to get the soundcard working was move it down a slot.. I hate how stuff has to be done that way. Oh well all is good now, very happy with this board!

 

[ArkAoss]

hey, i got a p2 450, about how hi could i safely try ocing it? any suggestions

 

[Frenchie]

If you havent already, you may want to do something about the "greenie" heatsink. Either replace it with a tennmax detonator (like I did) or at least put some thermal compound in between the bx and greenie. When you start getting up around the 133fsb, that bx starts to get a little warm...