Thinking about a new 478 Mobo!? Sugguestions?!

[mad0maxx]

Ok my situation is I recently bought a brand new wireless network card (WMP54G linksys brand) and on my motherboard (Intel D875PBZLK Socket 478) I currently have an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro in the AGP slot and PCI slot 1 was empty and PCI slot 2 had my Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Gamer Card and when I installed the wireless network card in ethier PCI slots 3, 4 or 5 the computer starts up but does not detect the network card at all. So I moved my sound card to PCI slot 3 and the network card to PCI slot 2 and left PCI slot 1 empty for the video card. Then the computer would not show the post screen and the monitor screen light stayed amber.

So I removed the two cards put the wireless network card in PCI slot 1 and the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Gamer Edition back into PCI slot 2 and the computer started up just fine and detected the wireless card.

Am I suppose to fill up every PCI slot in order or is my mobo bad?

I am thinking my motherboard is bad because sometimes when windows just starts up it totally freezes and the start up bar and system tray are being displayed all fragmented.

So if I were to get a new motherboard what would you all suggest for a 478 socket that would be compatible with a Intel Pentium 4 2.8C Northwood 2.8GHz Socket 478 Processor?

Thanks in advance

 

[mad0maxx]

Geeze, no one know this question ><

 

[Oyeve]

Not familiar with that board but I do know some older boards shared IRQs on PCI slots and AGP. If I were you, I would locate the manual for that mobo and find out the PCI slot recommendations. Some cards do not like sharing IRQs.

 

[mad0maxx]

Cool, thanks for the reply ^_^

 

[secretanchitman]

asus p4p800-e deluxe. i have the original p4p800 and it works flawlessly with my 2.4C @ 3.4Ghz.

 

[happy medium]

I suggest putting your windows XP disk in and choose repair.

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: secretanchitman
asus p4p800-e deluxe. i have the original p4p800 and it works flawlessly with my 2.4C @ 3.4Ghz.

Close to my suggestion which is an Asus p4p800se, about the same I guess I don't remember why I picked that over the deluxe, but I'm completely happy with it :thumbsup:

 

[Raincity]

You may want to check to if the bios is handling the interupts of if its set for Windows to handle them. I always had better luck letting the bios handle them.

 

[mad0maxx]

Originally posted by: happy medium
I suggest putting your windows XP disk in and choose repair.

This happens on a fresh XP install...

 

[mad0maxx]

Originally posted by: Raincity
You may want to check to if the bios is handling the interupts of if its set for Windows to handle them. I always had better luck letting the bios handle them.

Will check that tonight but last time I checked it was set to AUTO so as far as I know that is BIOS configuring them but I can not say for sure.

 

[mad0maxx]

Thanks for all the replies of the motherboard suggestions... :thumbsup: