nforce II hardware conflict

[waterpumper]

Hi, I have a Biostar M7NCD Pro, and Have just done a fresh install of windows xp on it. There are no add on cards installed other than the videocard in the agp slot, but it does have the onboard lan, and sound enabled. Under the device manager, system tab, the Agp to Pci bridge says that it cannnot find enough free resources to run. Has anyone run into this problem? I am thinking it is why I cannot get my agp videocard to install. On another nforce II system that I have here, I see that the AGP to PCI bridge doesn't use a IRQ, but only memory ranges. Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[mechBgon]

Try reinstalling your nForce2 driver package again, for starters. If you don't have the latest ones, you can find them here. You've got a hardware and/or software firewall, right? Don't want your computer running naked on the Internet these days... :Q

 

[Smilin]

If that's an ACPI compliant system you shouldn't really have this problem.

Check in bios to be sure ACPI is enabled and that PNP Aware OS is on.

If you still have the problem after confirming the above, see if there is a BIOS update available. Your tables could be goofy.

 

[waterpumper]

Running directx 9, and the latest nvidia nforce drivers off the nvidia website. The problem lies in the fact that the system will not provide any resourcs for a video card. In fact, if I take off the agp card, and install a trident pci card, the drivers try to install and then it says not enough resources can be found, same as it does with my agp card. I have never run into this issue before on a nforce system, so I am at a quandry as to what to try.

ACPI is enabled, as well as auto on the system resources. There is no pnp aware os setting that I'm aware of on the motherboard.

 

[Smilin]

That's a wierd one alright.

What HAL are you using? Go into device manager and expand Computer up at the top. Tell us what HAL it lists.

Re-Flash your bios if you already have the latest on there.

Also, was this system installed via Setup from the CD or was it imaged by chance?

 

[waterpumper]

When computer is expanded, on device manager, shows ACPI pc. Maybe I should try installing some other type of add in card in one of the pci slots, and see it if too finds no resources.

The board has the newest bios i think, but I will reflash it tonight. I suppose it could just be a jacked up motherboard, but was hoping it wouldn't be the case. Windows was installed off cd, the normal way, and not imaged. Would installing the nforce drivers off the cd (older version) and then updating to the newer cause it?

 

[Smilin]

Doing your drivers that way wouldn't cause this issue, no.
Your indicated HAL sounds right and your install method backs this up.

I've got the jedi-master on APIC and tables a few cubes down from me. I'm gonna go ping him on this see what he thinks.

 

[Smilin]

Whelp, I talked to him. It's kinda behaving like the motherboard was swapped out or maybe the system was imaged instead of installed.

Reset bios to default settings, then kick off an inplace upgrade (boot to xp cd, hit enter, F8, hit R).

If that doesn't immediately fix it, RMA the mobo (and stop pulling your hair out over this - it's supposed to work )