Radeon compatability issues with VIA KT133 chipset?? ABIT KT7-Raid

[KirkK]

Has anyone had any problems with the 64 meg version of the ATI Radeon on a motherboard that uses the VIA KT133 chipset. I have been trying to have a machine built using the ABIT KT7-raid motherboard with Thunderbird 900 with 256 megs of Ram and the Radeon 64 meg versions. I AM RUNNIND WINDOWS 2000. I have installed the lastest drivers from ATI. Bottom line is I get freeze ups and crashes. Also the DVD is jerky and sometimes freezes up. The company that was putting it together for me changed CPUs, Ram and motherboard but still same problems. Anybody have any thoughts?

Thanks

Kirk (mojo@mindspring.com)🙁

 

[rockhard]

Sounds like u need the Microsoft Registry patch for AMD systems.

Click here

If the shop u got your system from havent installed this then they want a slap 😉

rockhard =)

 

[Modus]

Try this patch. It is actually just a registry setting.

And of course, try the obvious things:

- latest BIOS update
- latest VIA 4-in-1 service pack
- disable AGP 4x and AGP sidebanding (they don't help anyway)
- clean install of Windows
- make sure the CPU/video card is cooled properly

Edit: rockhard you bastard 😉

Modus

 

[rockhard]

Modus 😉 Beat u by 1 minute 😛

Regards,

rockhard =)

 

[rockhard]

KirkK

U might be better off going with a Geforce2 GTS IMO.
The drivers are a lot more stable than ATI's under Win2k and the performance is a lot better.

Maybe u could get them to change the vid card out for u before u tell them about the reg patch 😉

rockhard =)

 

[sandorski]

Huh? Try the reg patch, before doing something stupid like spending more money.

 

[rockhard]

sandorski I was under the impression that the ATI drivers were not so stable at the moment in Win2K?

If u are runnin Win2K with a Radeon and know different please let us know, as i too fancy a radeon but not till the drivers are up to the speed and stability of the nVidia drivers.

He could always ask them to try a GF2 GTS before trying the patch, then he can have that card instead at no extra charge (swapout) 😉

thanx,

rockhard =)

 

[rmblam]

Do you have dma enabled on your HD? How are your IRQ's? Vid and sound sharing an IRQ?

Mine works fine with my kt133, but I am not using w2k.

 

[rockhard]

If you have a SBLive make sure that its not sharing its IRQ with another PCI slot, the USB Controller, Highpoint Controller. Ignore the IRQ's in Windows, just look in the manual and set it so that its in a PCI slot that shares with nothing else.
Heres a rip from an earlier post to someone who was having similar probs:-

that sound stuttering IS the sign of IRQ sharing probs

PCI slot 3 works great for the SBlive in the KT7 raid in my two systems
PCI slot 2 should be great too

Have a look in your manual - it says which slots share their IRQ with the USB and the Highpoint controller. Will give u a clue as to why i chose these 2 PCI slots

I spoke to Creative about 12 months ago about this and when i told them the symptoms like urs they jumped on the IRQ bandwagon straight away.

If U are using Win98/ME then u will have a SB16 Emulation - this has to be on a low IRQ - IRQ5 be nice.

Best way i found to solve this was to take out all the cards from your puter except VGA and reboot.
Shutdown and then add just the SBLive and reboot and install the latest drivers.
Check that the IRQ's are something like "SBLive" - IRQ 10, "SB16 Emulation" - IRQ 5 be nice
Then u can pop ur other cards in one by one rebooting between each card and checking the IRQ's.
This way u will find out if any of your cards are trying to fight with the SBLive and SB16 and so change their PCI slot position before putting all the cards in and not knowing which one is causing the problem

If ur using Win2K then u wont have the SB16 problem so can just plug and play Heh, Win2k pnp rocks compared to Win9x.



I appreciate some of this might not apply to ur OS/problem but i reckon u will get the jist of it and it may be of some use in helping to solve ur problem.

Just a thought,

rockhard =)