PCI Adapter Placement - ASUS A7V

[Barny]

It seems that adapter placement in the ASUS A7V motherboard is a hit or miss situation.
I'm looking for your advice regarding the correct or best placement of the following PCI Adapters. The only thing I've concluded so far is that the 10/100 Linksys Ethernet card SHOULD NOT be installed in slot 1.
It freezes my system (mouse pointer stops moving and shutdown won't complete). There is no onboard audio on my A7V.

ASUS AGP-V7100 Graphics - obviously the AGP slot
Creative Sound Blaster Live Value
Creative PC-DVD Encore Dxr3
US Robotics 56K Modem
Linksys 10/100 Ethernet Adapter
Adaptec SCSI (for use with Scanner, not Disk)

 

[jamesbond007]

Hey there. I have a Linksys NIC and it works for me in slot 3. I also have no onboard audio. It works like a charm for me. I have to use my NICs in slot 2 on the Asus A7V133, but slot 3 is what does it for the A7V. Good luck bud!

 

[KurtD]

I have read that the SBLive card should go in slot 3. I had constant problems with my system until I moved it from 5 to 3. Since then, my system has been stable without ANY hangs or reboots. Apparently the SB card has some sort of problem with sharing IRQs (with the A7V) and the IRQ properties of slot 3 work best. I understand also that slot 1 should be avoided for certain types of hardware because it shares an IRQ with a disk controller or something similarly critical. In any case, the problems I was having with the other hardware also disappeard after moving the SBlive card to slot 3. I can't remember where I saw the articles, but there is an A7V troubleshooting site where all this is well documented. Note that I am using the latest 4-1 drivers and bios 1007. I believe the IRQ is set to 5 in bios for slot 3. I'm at work now, so can't give all the exact details, but someone here should be able to chime in.🙂