Problems with new system

[ChaSiuBao]

Hi.

I've just put together a new machine:
Athlon XP 1800+
ASUS A7A266-E (BIOS 1011)
256MB Samsung DDR 2700
ASUS 16X DVD
2 Maxtor hard drives
SB Audigy Platinum
PNY GeForce 3 Ti 500

Don't know what power supply it is....some 300W thing. Running Win98SE.
I can't enable DMA on the DVD without getting corrupted transfers or bad reads. It's on a 40cable ATA33 cable, but that shouldn't matter, right?
Also, I think my video card is dead, or something. I put it in and I get 3 beeps, no display. Put it in a Pentium 4 and same thing. There doesn't seem to be any physical card damage though.

Would I fix the DMA problem with an ATA66 cable? What about ALi IDE drivers? I can't find them for download from ALi anymore. Would power supply affect thevideo card?

TIA

 

[HouRman]

If it's a cheap PS, 300 watts may not be enough but I'm not postive about that. I think it should work with the ATA33 cable but I don't know if the drive is meant for ATA66.

 

[newbiepcuser]

Have you tried another DVD rom like Toshiba, Pioneer or Lite-on. It could be the Asus DVD rom. My buddy has an Asus DVD rom and it always crapping out him, he refuses to believe that Asus isn't perfect.

 

[ChaSiuBao]

Hi.

I solved the DVD+ DMA problem. The board seems not to be able to detect ATA33 and ATA66 cables. It was assuming that I had an ATA66 cable and so configed the DVD for ATA100, when I really had an ATA33 cable. The errors all went away when I replaced the ATA33 cable with an ATA66.

Any help on the vid card?

 

[DoOLiE11]

the vid card could be loose

try checking it to make sure its in secure..

but i'm my roomate had the same problem... we couldnt figure it out so we RMA it back to asus....

 

[ChaSiuBao]

Hi.

The vid card isn't loose. I tried it in another system and the same thing....3 beeps(Pentium4 and P4TE).
PNY said something about increasing the VIO to 3.4volts, but there isn't any VIO adjustment on the A7A266-E. I think the card must be dead.

 

[DoOLiE11]

i remeber the a7a having some problems with the agp slot..

try emailing asus...

 

[AndyHui]

I would say that the card is dead.

The A7A266(-E) had problems with the ATI Rage cards, but these were fixed with a new AGP driver from ALi. I haven't heard of any other video issues regarding this board.

 

[NaughtyusMaximus]

What brand of BIOS chip does the motherboard have?

Check the beep codes from the maker, and that *should* tell you what the problem is.

 

[ChaSiuBao]

Hi.

It's an AWARD/Phoenix BIOS. The manual for both systemss says video or ram error. I swapped the ram to make sure that it works, so the ram is fine.