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[lillazy23]

hey guys i need serious help, heres my rig hope someone could help me with my problem

AMD 1.2 (not oced) CPU heat idles at (48-49) and (52-53) under load
A7V133 (Bios 1004)
Asus geforce2 V7700 GTS (latest detenator drivers from nvidia)
SB live X-Gamer (latest drivers from creative)
Kingston NIC card (latest drivers)
Via4in1 driver 4.29v
promise ata100 driver updated
300watt AMD approved PSU


Ok problem is I keep freezing when im playing counterstrike. Sometimes it takes 30 min or an hour but i eventually will freeze. I have tried every setup but cant fix it. First I thought it was a IRQ conflict i looked into that and found out that sb live was sharing IRQ with NIC card, so i moved SB live to PCI slot 3 and assigned it to IRQ 5 by itself. And the NIC card is on slot 4 sharing IRQ with USB controllers. If I change the IRQ for the NIC card the USB controllers move with it. So I disabled COM 3 and assigned NIC card to IRQ 3 sharing with USB controllers.

heres setup

00 sytem timer
01 standard 101 microsoft natural keyboard
02 programmable interrupt controller
03 Kingston EtheRX PCI 10/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter
03 VIA tech 3038 PCI to USB Universal Host Controller
03 VIA tech 3038 PCI to USB Universal Host Controller
03 ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering
04 Communications Port (COM 1)
05 Creative SB Live! series
05 ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering
06 Standard Floppy Disk Controller
07 ECP Printer Port (LPT1)
08 System CMOS/real time clock
09 SCI IRQ used by ACPI bus
10 Win 95-98 Promise Ultra100 IDE Controller
10 ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ steering
11 NVIDIA Geforce 2 GTS/ Geforce2 Pro
11 ACPI IRQ HOlder for PCI IRQ Steering
13 Numeric data processor
14 Via Bus MAster PCI IDE controller
14 Primary IDE controller (dual fifo)
15 Via bus master pci ide controller
15 secondary ide controller (dual fifo)

I have also learned that slots 4/5 automatically use IRQ for USB controllers, slot 1 uses video card, and slot 2 uses promise ata100. So that leaves me only slot 3 to use, I dont know if its the NIC card and the USB controllers causing the problem or Sound card. I forgot to mention i have a USB microsoft optical mouse which might cause problems with the NIC card. Its either Sound card with USB controllers or NIC card with USB controllers. And i have tried both setups and both dont work. I cant use slot 2 because of the ata100 and slot1 is used by the video card. I have tried looking for a way to change the USB controllers to a different IRQ but cant find it. Anybody know if this is possible on the A7V133 mobos??? Also I have done some tests to see if it was a heat problem runining seti@home and comp was doing fine. And did a test on 3dmark and passed all tests. Dont know what else to do, I hope someobody out there can find the problem.

THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP

 

[Duvie]

Hey, still having problem? Didn't the sb card solve the most of the probelms?

I see you still have com1...do you need it?

Is the sb card in slot 3 the only available slot to put nic card to avoid tag along usb controllers.

It is funny I have seen people with nic cards sharing irqs...I wander if the usb mouse is the majority of the problem...I have heard of some problems but that was with optical mouses (which i don't know what they are)...If you are running win98 I think there is a usb update patch at microshit.

Hell try a ps2 mouse and see if problem prosist...that could be sure fire away of eliminating usb mouse as source of problems.

 

[Julios]

we have asus a7v's at work here for the thunderbirds, and until we updated the bios from 1.004 to 1.005 we had massive instabilty problems - random crashes with no apparent pattern. Once we updated the bioses everything was solved instantaneously.

I'm not sure about the Asus A7V133 but maybe update the bios to the latest one if 1.004 isn't the latest.

 

[baldy]

sounds/looks like heat, especially the freezing after playing a game for awhile.

what r u usin' for cooling the sucker?

baldy

 

[lillazy23]

Hey Duvie,

I still have Com1 but theres no point in disabling it, because the NIC card still moves with the USB controllers. Yeah Slot3 is the only one thats not sharing IRQ with anything and im using that for the SB live. I installed the USB patch from the A7V133 motherboard CD, I dont know if theres a update for that. Ill try another mouse tonight and see if that works.
Baldy im using a coolermaster right now and im waiting for my swiftech to arrive, I dont think heats a problem though.

thanks guys

 

[Bartman39]

Uh I think Baldy has it "heat" is more than likely your problem... Just give this a try boot up at 10X100 or 1000mhz and play your game and see if that does the trick... Let us know...

 

[digi187]

bart, good idea... Definetely get some aftermarket cooling on that

If he has the optical mouse, try the ps2 connector on it... it helped my problems

 

[Duvie]

Don't look at those temp numbers and forget he is running an asus board and temp tend to run higher on asus boards...this is discussed a lot in case cooling threads. Those are numbers that are being posted look fine, not great...And the coolermaster is doing him no favors.

Vid card heat? You are not oc'ing that are you? Nvidia cards run hot as it is...

 

[lillazy23]

no nothing is oced on yet. Im going to try the PS2 port and try playing game in 1 player mode to see if the NIC card is the problem.