Greetings,
I was using a ABIT BE6 v1.1 motherboard and a ABIT BE6 v1.0
motherboard before which were working fine. I upgraded to a ABIT BE6II
v2.0 board and became having problems. On both the BE6 v1.1 and BE6II
v2.0 board, when I ran Norton Utilities 2001 Norton Diagnostics in
Symantec Norton SystemWorks 2001 Professional Edition, it would fail
memory check whenever there are 3 DIMM modules (Micron/Crucial 128MB PC133
CAS3) plugged in. I thought the memory modules were bad but if I swap
them and only had 1 to 2, the problem would disappear but whenever I have
3 modules all plugged in, the problem would reappear again. I have tried
alternating and trying DIMM slot 3 only and the problem is gone. Could
there be a problem with the program in testing more than 2 DIMM modules
and less than 4? Another issue is on my BE6 v1.1, everything was working
fine. On the BE6II v2.0 motherboard, it seems when I run a memory recover
utility (MemTurbo) or Norton AntiVirus 2001, or defrag a SCSI Hard Drive
(IDE Hard Drives defrg fine), it will always lag the system and then poll
my SCSI bus beginning with making a click sound on my Iomega SCSI
Zip100Plus External drive, then the busy light would go on and then off on
my Philips OmniWriter 26 CDRW SCSI External then the busy light would go
on and then off on my Plextor 12Plex 12X SCSI CDROM Internal and then
either the system will work or it will more often hang solid. This is in
Windows Millennium Edition. I can't figure out why this is happening. I
had the same exact configuration on both the BE6 v1.0, 1.1 and BE6II v2.0
and the software is identical since all I did was swapped the
motherrboard. The only different between the BE6 v1.1 and the BE6II v2.0
is the BE6 v1.1 has the HighPoint HPT366 UDMA66 controller while the BE6II
v2.0 has the HighPoint HPT370 RAID/UDMA100 controller. I noticed that on
my ISA based Terratec AudioSystem EWS64XL Soundcard, on both the BE6 v1.0
and v1.1, I can use IRQ 9 and IRQ 5 with no problems. This soundcard
requires two interrupts. But on the BE6II v2.0, the soundcard wouldn't
work on IRQ9 so I had to change the EEPROM to use IRQ 11 and IRQ 5. It
seems right now, the system uses IRQ 3/4 for the com ports, IRQ 5 and 11
for my soundcard, IRQ 7 for Parallel Port, IRQ 12 for the PS/2 mouse port,
IRQ 10 for the HighPoint HPT370 UDMA100/RAID Controller, IRQ 14/15 for the
UDMA33 controller and IRQ 9 for my Adaptec 2940UW SCSI Controller, Matrox
Millennium G400 Dual Head Max 32MB AGP Video Card, and Intel Pro100+
Management 10/100Mbps Network Card. Could there be a problem with IRQ 9
with this particular board?
My confirguration is as follows:
ABIT BE6 v2.0 Motherboard using BIOS RUK
CPU: Celeron II 566 using Abit Slotket !!! with ThermalTake Golden Orb
Heatsink/Fan
OS: Windows Millennium Edition 4.90 Build 3000.2
Drivers: Highpoint 370 v1.03
The following is the same exact configuration as on my BE6 v1.0 and v1.1:
AGP Slot: Matrox Millennium G400 Dual Head Max 32MB AGP Video Card
PCI Slot 1: Adaptec 2940UW SCSI Controller using v2.57 firmware
PCI Slot 2: Intel Pro100+ Management 10/100 Network Card
Last ISA Slot: Terratec AudioSystem EWS64XL Soundcard
I had tried moving the SCSI controller to slot 2 and the network
card to slot 4 and the same problem occurs. Could this be a defective
motherboard? or is it the HighPoint HPT370 UDMA100/RAID controller that
is causing it? Since it seems like IRQ 9 isn't working correctly. Thanks
for any help in advance!
P.S. Another thing I noticed is that if the system is not shutdown properly, when Windows runs scandisk, everything is okay when it is on the IDE drives but as soon as it hits a SCSI drive, it polls all the SCSI devices after it scans the scsi drive for awhile.
I was using a ABIT BE6 v1.1 motherboard and a ABIT BE6 v1.0
motherboard before which were working fine. I upgraded to a ABIT BE6II
v2.0 board and became having problems. On both the BE6 v1.1 and BE6II
v2.0 board, when I ran Norton Utilities 2001 Norton Diagnostics in
Symantec Norton SystemWorks 2001 Professional Edition, it would fail
memory check whenever there are 3 DIMM modules (Micron/Crucial 128MB PC133
CAS3) plugged in. I thought the memory modules were bad but if I swap
them and only had 1 to 2, the problem would disappear but whenever I have
3 modules all plugged in, the problem would reappear again. I have tried
alternating and trying DIMM slot 3 only and the problem is gone. Could
there be a problem with the program in testing more than 2 DIMM modules
and less than 4? Another issue is on my BE6 v1.1, everything was working
fine. On the BE6II v2.0 motherboard, it seems when I run a memory recover
utility (MemTurbo) or Norton AntiVirus 2001, or defrag a SCSI Hard Drive
(IDE Hard Drives defrg fine), it will always lag the system and then poll
my SCSI bus beginning with making a click sound on my Iomega SCSI
Zip100Plus External drive, then the busy light would go on and then off on
my Philips OmniWriter 26 CDRW SCSI External then the busy light would go
on and then off on my Plextor 12Plex 12X SCSI CDROM Internal and then
either the system will work or it will more often hang solid. This is in
Windows Millennium Edition. I can't figure out why this is happening. I
had the same exact configuration on both the BE6 v1.0, 1.1 and BE6II v2.0
and the software is identical since all I did was swapped the
motherrboard. The only different between the BE6 v1.1 and the BE6II v2.0
is the BE6 v1.1 has the HighPoint HPT366 UDMA66 controller while the BE6II
v2.0 has the HighPoint HPT370 RAID/UDMA100 controller. I noticed that on
my ISA based Terratec AudioSystem EWS64XL Soundcard, on both the BE6 v1.0
and v1.1, I can use IRQ 9 and IRQ 5 with no problems. This soundcard
requires two interrupts. But on the BE6II v2.0, the soundcard wouldn't
work on IRQ9 so I had to change the EEPROM to use IRQ 11 and IRQ 5. It
seems right now, the system uses IRQ 3/4 for the com ports, IRQ 5 and 11
for my soundcard, IRQ 7 for Parallel Port, IRQ 12 for the PS/2 mouse port,
IRQ 10 for the HighPoint HPT370 UDMA100/RAID Controller, IRQ 14/15 for the
UDMA33 controller and IRQ 9 for my Adaptec 2940UW SCSI Controller, Matrox
Millennium G400 Dual Head Max 32MB AGP Video Card, and Intel Pro100+
Management 10/100Mbps Network Card. Could there be a problem with IRQ 9
with this particular board?
My confirguration is as follows:
ABIT BE6 v2.0 Motherboard using BIOS RUK
CPU: Celeron II 566 using Abit Slotket !!! with ThermalTake Golden Orb
Heatsink/Fan
OS: Windows Millennium Edition 4.90 Build 3000.2
Drivers: Highpoint 370 v1.03
The following is the same exact configuration as on my BE6 v1.0 and v1.1:
AGP Slot: Matrox Millennium G400 Dual Head Max 32MB AGP Video Card
PCI Slot 1: Adaptec 2940UW SCSI Controller using v2.57 firmware
PCI Slot 2: Intel Pro100+ Management 10/100 Network Card
Last ISA Slot: Terratec AudioSystem EWS64XL Soundcard
I had tried moving the SCSI controller to slot 2 and the network
card to slot 4 and the same problem occurs. Could this be a defective
motherboard? or is it the HighPoint HPT370 UDMA100/RAID controller that
is causing it? Since it seems like IRQ 9 isn't working correctly. Thanks
for any help in advance!
P.S. Another thing I noticed is that if the system is not shutdown properly, when Windows runs scandisk, everything is okay when it is on the IDE drives but as soon as it hits a SCSI drive, it polls all the SCSI devices after it scans the scsi drive for awhile.
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