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some slots are dedicated to an IRQ resource and do not share.....look at
page 17 of the manual and see what it says...I dropped my SB live to slot 4 to resolve my IRQ conflict..I have rev 2 of the board..as for SATA..I can not help you there..have not gotten my drives yet. |
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A7N8X Delux problems... IDE-SATA issues, Sound Card, others
Ok… I have a list of problems with this board that I can't seam to
resolve and before I do anything drastic, I want some input. 1.) I installed 2 36GB raptor drives in a raid0 configuration. Now I can't see any of my old IDE drives when I boot from them (SCSI in bios). Windows (XP pro) shows only the raid drive. When I boot from my old IDE drive I can see all my IDE drives and the SATA drives. The BIOS detects the IDE drive as master IDE. Is the problem with the SATA drivers, the motherboard, Windows, or a drive jumper, and how can I fix this? 2.) I have a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card installed in my system. I believe that after I updated my bios to the newest version, to support the 400 FSB, it caused something to go wrong with the compatibility with my card. Now on start up, when I click my account at the opening windows screen and the nice music is supposed to play, I get the blue screen of death pointing me to the sound cards tbcwdm.sys file. I go into safe mode disable the card, restart windows, and then enable the card and it will work fine until the next restart. Any thoughts? The only reason I believe this has anything to do with the BIOS being updated is that during my experience trying to resolve this problem I came across a post for the Abit NF7 and someone having the same problem. Both of these MOBO's use the nForce2 chipset and both of these problems happened after updating the BIOS to the newest versions. On that thread someone suggested installing the card into PCI slot 3. Now I'm no computer science major, but what the hell would that have to do with anything I couldn't do in the BIOS configuration. Any thoughts? 3. & 4.) The last two are minor but somewhat annoying to me. The speech post reporter will not work for me, no matter what. I have reinstalled the software, re-flashed the post reporter chip, everything I could find on-line to do and still nothing. Any thoughts? Also the 3Com LAN connection won't work. No matter what I do I can't seem to configure it right and Windows seems to hate it. I plug it into the Nvida LAN port and everything works magically. Anytime I try to mess with the 3Com it screws up all my LAN setting for both my computer and my router (Lynksys). Again, any thoughts? Another problem not really related. I'm using Verizon DSL and on shut down I get a WinPoet error pop up during shut down. Not really a problem as it is an annoyance. If I uninstall Winpoet will my DSL still work. Thanks for looking at this thread I know it's long and you guys have helped me out of jams before, that's why I come here first. Smith |
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Smith wrote:
Ok. I have a list of problems with this board that I can't seam to resolve and before I do anything drastic, I want some input. 1.) I installed 2 36GB raptor drives in a raid0 configuration. Now I can't see any of my old IDE drives when I boot from them (SCSI in bios). Windows (XP pro) shows only the raid drive. When I boot from my old IDE drive I can see all my IDE drives and the SATA drives. The BIOS detects the IDE drive as master IDE. Is the problem with the SATA drivers, the motherboard, Windows, or a drive jumper, and how can I fix this? Sounds a bit strange to me. I take it you have two seperate Win XP installs? I guess that the BIOS detects all drives in both situations? Which kind of leaves Windows drivers, but that seems unlikely. 2.) I have a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card installed in my system. I believe that after I updated my bios to the newest version, to support the 400 FSB, it caused something to go wrong with the compatibility with my card. Now on start up, when I click my account at the opening windows screen and the nice music is supposed to play, I get the blue screen of death pointing me to the sound cards tbcwdm.sys file. I go into safe mode disable the card, restart windows, and then enable the card and it will work fine until the next restart. Any thoughts? The only reason I believe this has anything to do with the BIOS being updated is that during my experience trying to resolve this problem I came across a post for the Abit NF7 and someone having the same problem. Both of these MOBO's use the nForce2 chipset and both of these problems happened after updating the BIOS to the newest versions. On that thread someone suggested installing the card into PCI slot 3. Now I'm no computer science major, but what the hell would that have to do with anything I couldn't do in the BIOS configuration. Any thoughts? Some IRQs are tied to more than one device at a time... for example the IRQ for AGP slot is usually the same as the PCI slot closest to the AGP slot. Moving the card can result in the shared IRQs changing and if the problem was a result of the other device it was sharing with... problem solved. 3. & 4.) The last two are minor but somewhat annoying to me. The speech post reporter will not work for me, no matter what. I have reinstalled the software, re-flashed the post reporter chip, everything I could find on-line to do and still nothing. Any thoughts? Dont; bother with it, it's annoying. It's only use is in troubleshooting a system that won't POST really, and that can be done quite successfully using conventional methods, it might take you another 10 minutes though. Also the 3Com LAN connection won't work. No matter what I do I can't seem to configure it right and Windows seems to hate it. I plug it Whats "it"? Your router? into the Nvida LAN port and everything works magically. Anytime I try to mess with the 3Com it screws up all my LAN setting for both my computer and my router (Lynksys). Again, any thoughts? Screws up your LAN settings how? If more than one device is being configured as a gateway for the same addresses then that will likely cause you problems. Give us a: route PRINT and ipconfig listing from the command prompt when it's not working, and tell us which device you are using to connect to the net. Another problem not really related. I'm using Verizon DSL and on shut down I get a WinPoet error pop up during shut down. Not really a problem as it is an annoyance. If I uninstall Winpoet will my DSL still work. Does it just say "error"? Is it a specific error? Are there any further details we might need to know about in order to troubleshoot this? Ben -- I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
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1.) I installed 2 36GB raptor drives in a raid0 configuration. Now I
can't see any of my old IDE drives when I boot from them (SCSI in bios). Windows (XP pro) shows only the raid drive. When I boot from my old IDE drive I can see all my IDE drives and the SATA drives. The BIOS detects the IDE drive as master IDE. Is the problem with the SATA drivers, the motherboard, Windows, or a drive jumper, and how can I fix this? Sounds a bit strange to me. I take it you have two separate Win XP installs? I guess that the BIOS detects all drives in both situations? Which kind of leaves Windows drivers, but that seems unlikely. Yes, the BIOS does detects both drives. What I originally had set up was a 40GB program drive (OS, games, apps, ect.) and a 80GB data drive. I used Acronis Easy Migrate to copy the IDE drive over to my raid array. When I select from the BIOS to boot from IDE I see both the 80GB data disk and the 78GB raid disk. When I boot from the raid disk (SCSI in BIOS). I don't see my 80GB drive. I have already removed the 40GB drive from my system so I don't know if my current configuration would see it or not. I just found something today, I don't know why I didn't think of it sooner, if I go into the control panel-system-device manager-disk drives it list both the IDE disk and the SCSI. Under properties of the IDE drive it brings up the proper label and capacity. I removed and reinstalled the drivers and windows recognized the drive by name WDC WB800BB-00CAA0 (before reinstalling the driver it listed it as "disk drive" for a name). But still no luck getting Windows Explorer to see the drive. The Device manager says it is working fine. I don't know if this will help but under Location it lists ‘Location 0 (0)' This seems odd to me, but then again I don't really know about it. Believe it or not I think this may be related to my sound card issue. After I did this I restarted my computer and my sound card worked fine, no blue screen. I was surprised so I restarted it again and still good. Then I shut down altogether and waited a while until restart, and again it worked perfectly. I'm not quite ready to call it fixed but could I have an IRQ problem overall affecting both of these systems? Right after I upgraded all my components I went through and updated all the drivers and added some other components (new video card, new printer, ect.) and got a message saying something to the effect that all of my IRQ resources were used up. I should have said this in the original post, but I completely forgot about it until now. As far as the 3Com Lan goes I'll have to take a good chunk of my day to mess with it, it always turns into a train wreck when I touch it so I'll have to wait a little while until I'm not swamped with work to take care of it. I'll post that later. I'll also take your advice about the post reporter and forget about it. Another problem not really related. I'm using Verizon DSL and on shut down I get a WinPoet error pop up during shut down. Not really a problem as it is an annoyance. If I uninstall Winpoet will my DSL still work. Does it just say "error"? Is it a specific error? Are there any further details we might need to know about in order to troubleshoot this? It pops up as WrOS.exe—Application Error: The instruction at "0x00146bc0" referenced memory "0xffffffff" Could not be read. What is your thoughts on this. Thanks for all your help and time. Smith |
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Smith wrote:
Yes, the BIOS does detects both drives. What I originally had set up was a 40GB program drive (OS, games, apps, ect.) and a 80GB data drive. I used Acronis Easy Migrate to copy the IDE drive over to my raid array. When I select from the BIOS to boot from IDE I see both the 80GB data disk and the 78GB raid disk. When I boot from the raid disk (SCSI in BIOS). I don't see my 80GB drive. I have already removed the 40GB drive from my system so I don't know if my current configuration would see it or not. I just found something today, I don't know why I didn't think of it sooner, if I go into the control panel-system-device manager-disk drives it list both the IDE disk and the SCSI. Under properties of the IDE drive it brings up the proper label and capacity. I removed and reinstalled the drivers and windows recognized the drive by name WDC WB800BB-00CAA0 (before reinstalling the driver it listed it as "disk drive" for a name). But still no luck getting Windows Explorer to see the drive. The Device manager says it is working fine. I don't know if this will help but under Location it lists 'Location 0 (0)' This seems odd to me, but then again I don't really know about it. Hmm, so the hardware is detected, but the partition is not. I would suspect a dodgy partition table, maybe. Believe it or not I think this may be related to my sound card issue. After I did this I restarted my computer and my sound card worked fine, no blue screen. I was surprised so I restarted it again and still good. Then I shut down altogether and waited a while until restart, and again it worked perfectly. I'm not quite ready to call it fixed but could I have an IRQ problem overall affecting both of these systems? IDE nearly always uses IRQs 14 and 15, and I've never seen a sound card go for either of those IRQs... but having said that I do recall seeing a PCI slot share an IRQ with the IDE controller (according to the manual), maybe it was an add-in IDE controller (built into the mobo) Right after I upgraded all my components I went through and updated all the drivers and added some other components (new video card, new printer, ect.) and got a message saying something to the effect that all of my IRQ resources were used up. I should have said this in the original post, but I completely forgot about it until now. Don't recall ever getting a message like that, is APIC enabled in the BIOS? That gives you 8 extra IRQs, but has been known to cause problems. In Linux for example it's a nightmare, but it's not caused me any issues in Windows. (I pass Linux a kernel parameter to disable APIC) As far as the 3Com Lan goes I'll have to take a good chunk of my day to mess with it, it always turns into a train wreck when I touch it so I'll have to wait a little while until I'm not swamped with work to take care of it. I'll post that later. OK. Might as well new-thread it if it's gonna be more than a couple of days. I'll also take your advice about the post reporter and forget about it. With it on it gets on your tits, seriously. It pops up as WrOS.exe-Application Error: The instruction at "0x00146bc0" referenced memory "0xffffffff" Could not be read. What is your thoughts on this. I think it looks like the wrong address. I have no idea why, but looks like corrupt data somewhere, if you get that error all the time, then check the files (reinstall the application) Ben -- I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
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You need to be using the onboard sound to hear the post report, it cannot be
'pumped' throught to an external ie pci sound device. "Ben Pope" wrote in message ... Smith wrote: Ok. I have a list of problems with this board that I can't seam to resolve and before I do anything drastic, I want some input. 1.) I installed 2 36GB raptor drives in a raid0 configuration. Now I can't see any of my old IDE drives when I boot from them (SCSI in bios). Windows (XP pro) shows only the raid drive. When I boot from my old IDE drive I can see all my IDE drives and the SATA drives. The BIOS detects the IDE drive as master IDE. Is the problem with the SATA drivers, the motherboard, Windows, or a drive jumper, and how can I fix this? Sounds a bit strange to me. I take it you have two seperate Win XP installs? I guess that the BIOS detects all drives in both situations? Which kind of leaves Windows drivers, but that seems unlikely. 2.) I have a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card installed in my system. I believe that after I updated my bios to the newest version, to support the 400 FSB, it caused something to go wrong with the compatibility with my card. Now on start up, when I click my account at the opening windows screen and the nice music is supposed to play, I get the blue screen of death pointing me to the sound cards tbcwdm.sys file. I go into safe mode disable the card, restart windows, and then enable the card and it will work fine until the next restart. Any thoughts? The only reason I believe this has anything to do with the BIOS being updated is that during my experience trying to resolve this problem I came across a post for the Abit NF7 and someone having the same problem. Both of these MOBO's use the nForce2 chipset and both of these problems happened after updating the BIOS to the newest versions. On that thread someone suggested installing the card into PCI slot 3. Now I'm no computer science major, but what the hell would that have to do with anything I couldn't do in the BIOS configuration. Any thoughts? Some IRQs are tied to more than one device at a time... for example the IRQ for AGP slot is usually the same as the PCI slot closest to the AGP slot. Moving the card can result in the shared IRQs changing and if the problem was a result of the other device it was sharing with... problem solved. 3. & 4.) The last two are minor but somewhat annoying to me. The speech post reporter will not work for me, no matter what. I have reinstalled the software, re-flashed the post reporter chip, everything I could find on-line to do and still nothing. Any thoughts? Dont; bother with it, it's annoying. It's only use is in troubleshooting a system that won't POST really, and that can be done quite successfully using conventional methods, it might take you another 10 minutes though. Also the 3Com LAN connection won't work. No matter what I do I can't seem to configure it right and Windows seems to hate it. I plug it Whats "it"? Your router? into the Nvida LAN port and everything works magically. Anytime I try to mess with the 3Com it screws up all my LAN setting for both my computer and my router (Lynksys). Again, any thoughts? Screws up your LAN settings how? If more than one device is being configured as a gateway for the same addresses then that will likely cause you problems. Give us a: route PRINT and ipconfig listing from the command prompt when it's not working, and tell us which device you are using to connect to the net. Another problem not really related. I'm using Verizon DSL and on shut down I get a WinPoet error pop up during shut down. Not really a problem as it is an annoyance. If I uninstall Winpoet will my DSL still work. Does it just say "error"? Is it a specific error? Are there any further details we might need to know about in order to troubleshoot this? Ben -- I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
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"Ben Pope" wrote in message ...
Smith wrote: Yes, the BIOS does detects both drives. What I originally had set up was a 40GB program drive (OS, games, apps, ect.) and a 80GB data drive. I used Acronis Easy Migrate to copy the IDE drive over to my raid array. When I select from the BIOS to boot from IDE I see both the 80GB data disk and the 78GB raid disk. When I boot from the raid disk (SCSI in BIOS). I don't see my 80GB drive. I have already removed the 40GB drive from my system so I don't know if my current configuration would see it or not. I just found something today, I don't know why I didn't think of it sooner, if I go into the control panel-system-device manager-disk drives it list both the IDE disk and the SCSI. Under properties of the IDE drive it brings up the proper label and capacity. I removed and reinstalled the drivers and windows recognized the drive by name WDC WB800BB-00CAA0 (before reinstalling the driver it listed it as "disk drive" for a name). But still no luck getting Windows Explorer to see the drive. The Device manager says it is working fine. I don't know if this will help but under Location it lists 'Location 0 (0)' This seems odd to me, but then again I don't really know about it. Hmm, so the hardware is detected, but the partition is not. I would suspect a dodgy partition table, maybe. Ok... This is why I come to these boards, to get me thinking about this stuff... It turn out that after the migration to the SATA drives the IDE drive letter assignment didn't go over also; don't know why, but it didn't. All I needed to do was assign a new drive letter and voila. Thanks for your help with this one. Believe it or not I think this may be related to my sound card issue. After I did this I restarted my computer and my sound card worked fine, no blue screen. I was surprised so I restarted it again and still good. Then I shut down altogether and waited a while until restart, and again it worked perfectly. I'm not quite ready to call it fixed but could I have an IRQ problem overall affecting both of these systems? IDE nearly always uses IRQs 14 and 15, and I've never seen a sound card go for either of those IRQs... but having said that I do recall seeing a PCI slot share an IRQ with the IDE controller (according to the manual), maybe it was an add-in IDE controller (built into the mobo) Still no luck with this sound card problem, even though I havn't tried another PCI slot... Trying everthing not to break into the computer again. |
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Smith wrote:
Still no luck with this sound card problem, even though I havn't tried another PCI slot... Trying everthing not to break into the computer again. Well some people have had luck when disabling APIC... which you can do by changing your computer type from ACPI Uniprocessor to Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) - that will disable use of the APIC (as I understand), reshuffle all the IRQs and has been known to solve sound problems. The APIC gives you 8 more IRQs and is usually built into multiprocessor machines, but the nForce has one too. Ben -- I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
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