Trouble with my asus SK8N

[Devirginiser]

Hey people. I just updated the bios on it using asus update becuase I was having some stability isses with my radeon 9800, ironic using a radeon in a nforce3 chipset eh..

Anyway ran fine for the first few reboots then now xp pro will just sit in the loading screen forever. Im currently in safe mode, so im not entirely sure if it was the bios update thats doing it. I tried updating the nforce drivers but installshield just takes a dump when i try to run it. Rollback did nothing.

 

[mechBgon]

What power supply is towing the boat there, and what's your full system spec?

 

[Devirginiser]

Enermax eg465p 450watt psu
1gb kingston ecc ram
2x maxtor 120gb
1x maxtor 40 gb
Asus Cd rw(24x10x40x)
memorex 8x dvd+-r/rw/cdrrw
Sound blaster audigy 2 platinum
Promise ide controller(one of the 120's is on each channel) the 40 is on the board primary.
Radeon 9800 pro 256mb

Cd roms share the board secondary.

Edit: forgot ram

 

[mechBgon]

Sometimes I see problems arise due to PCI-slot IRQ-sharing conflicts. If possible, could you try peeling your PCI IDE controller and your Audigy 2 out of the system as a fact-finding step. I'll look up what the IRQ-sharing layout is for your board, but at 56k speeds it could take me a while

 

[Devirginiser]

Doh. cant beleive I forgot about IRQ conflicts.

Im in normal mode albit without my primary application/storage drives.

Reinstalling video drivers as I type this cause the upgrade borked those too.

Awaiting further suggestions.

 

[mechBgon]

Looking at the crazy chart in the manual, it appears that the default IRQ-sharing is as follows:


AGP doesn't share (good)
PCI slots 1 & 5 share with eachother, so use one or the other
PCI slot 2 doesn't share (sweet slot)
PCI slot 3 shares with the onboard RAID controller
PCI slot 4 shares with the onboard Firewire controller

So if you put the Audigy and PCI IDE card in slots 2 and 5, that would probably be good. I'd disable the Audigy's gameport if you can live without it, and its Firewire too since the board has a FW controller (go hunt 'em down in Windows Device Manager and disable them there). Hope that helps some

 

[Devirginiser]

Well that appears to have fixed it. Total RTFM problem on my part.. Been up a couple days sraight cause sumer vacaion just started

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: Devirginiser
Well that appears to have fixed it. Total RTFM problem on my part.. Been up a couple days sraight cause sumer vacaion just started

Sweet Get some rest and then enjoy your rig