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KR7A-RAID locking up, sound problems
Hi. I wonder if anyone here has the solution to the problems I am
experiencing with this motherboard? When playing mp3 files, avi files or games, the system locks up after a period between 20 and 60 minutes. Sometimes it completely locks up and I have to cut the power. Sometimes it reboots itself immediately. Most times when playing mp3s, Media Player (or WinAmp, or Nero Showtime) locks up and there is a buzzing, or rapid ticking, sound. Sometimes it stops when I close Media Player, other times it continues. Either way I have to reboot to get sound working again. It does the above even with only one drive connected. I have switched the memory around, using one stick in all 4 sockets. I currently have them in 2 and 4. I flashed to the latest BIOS. I had problems with a Netgear ethernet card and swapped it out. I had problems with a Geforce MX 400 card so I bought a 9600XT. No known problems with sound card, and I am NOT buying any more cards! I have now exceeded the permitted number of activations of XP Home with all the hardware changes, and will have to ring Microsoft next time I reinstall! I have tried the VIA v443 drivers and the VIA IDE driver (apparently this one is required to support drives over 137 Gb, not that I have any). The latter seemed to make it worse. Abit tech support reckon I should just use the XP drivers. I tried that, no joy. I've gone through the BIOS and changed settings to those recommended by various parties, i.e. conservative settings for memory, disabled video palette snoop, enabled wait states for memory etc. Power options are set to always on, apart from the monitor which is set to turn off after 20 minutes. Needless to say I have tried it with monitor "always on". I am about ready to set it on fire! I've spent the best part of 4 weeks messing with it. It did this occasionally under Windows ME, but under XP Home with SP2 it is doing it consistently. Any suggestions gratefully received. Also any recommendations for a replacement Socket A mobo with RAID, bearing in mind I have five ATA drives... Thanks, Martin. System: ATHLON XP1800+ KR7A-RAID BIOS version CX inc. HPT 2.34 RAID BIOS (from www.sudhian.com) 2 of Crucial 256Mb memory sticks (CT3272Y265) ATI 9600XT AGP video card Hercules Gamesurround Muse 5.1 sound card RealTek RTL8139 Ethernet card FSP Aurora 300w power supply Lian-Li PC-60 USB case 5 of ATA IDE drives All USB devices unplugged just in case ACPI enabled Drivers: HPT v2.34 VIA Hyperion 4in1 v4.55vp1 (4.51 and 4.43 also tried) VIA USB Filter patch (VIA Bus Master (Ultra DMA) PCI IDE Driver IDE_MPD3014 - now uninstalled) RAID performance patch rpp1.02 |
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You didn't say if this drive is on the regular controller or the raid controller. I had win 98 SE on the raid controller(not a raid aray) and tried to install Win XP as a dual boot system. I had to move the drive to the regular controller in order to install xp. I haven't really done much with the xp, but it looks like xp doesn't like the raid controller. I didn't move the drive back to the raid controller after installing xp. Jonathan On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 09:47:06 -0000, "Martin" wrote: Hi. I wonder if anyone here has the solution to the problems I am experiencing with this motherboard? When playing mp3 files, avi files or games, the system locks up after a period between 20 and 60 minutes. Sometimes it completely locks up and I have to cut the power. Sometimes it reboots itself immediately. Most times when playing mp3s, Media Player (or WinAmp, or Nero Showtime) locks up and there is a buzzing, or rapid ticking, sound. Sometimes it stops when I close Media Player, other times it continues. Either way I have to reboot to get sound working again. It does the above even with only one drive connected. |
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It's on the regular controller. Even if I disconnect the drives on the raid
connectors I get the same problems. I only use the raid for the extra connectors, not as a raid array. Hmmm. I'll try disabling write caching on the main disk from Device Manager, see what that does. Martin. "Jonathan" wrote in message news You didn't say if this drive is on the regular controller or the raid controller. I had win 98 SE on the raid controller(not a raid aray) and tried to install Win XP as a dual boot system. I had to move the drive to the regular controller in order to install xp. I haven't really done much with the xp, but it looks like xp doesn't like the raid controller. I didn't move the drive back to the raid controller after installing xp. Jonathan On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 09:47:06 -0000, "Martin" wrote: Hi. I wonder if anyone here has the solution to the problems I am experiencing with this motherboard? When playing mp3 files, avi files or games, the system locks up after a period between 20 and 60 minutes. Sometimes it completely locks up and I have to cut the power. Sometimes it reboots itself immediately. Most times when playing mp3s, Media Player (or WinAmp, or Nero Showtime) locks up and there is a buzzing, or rapid ticking, sound. Sometimes it stops when I close Media Player, other times it continues. Either way I have to reboot to get sound working again. It does the above even with only one drive connected. |
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That doesn't help either...
"Martin" wrote in message ... It's on the regular controller. Even if I disconnect the drives on the raid connectors I get the same problems. I only use the raid for the extra connectors, not as a raid array. Hmmm. I'll try disabling write caching on the main disk from Device Manager, see what that does. Martin. "Jonathan" wrote in message news You didn't say if this drive is on the regular controller or the raid controller. I had win 98 SE on the raid controller(not a raid aray) and tried to install Win XP as a dual boot system. I had to move the drive to the regular controller in order to install xp. I haven't really done much with the xp, but it looks like xp doesn't like the raid controller. I didn't move the drive back to the raid controller after installing xp. Jonathan On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 09:47:06 -0000, "Martin" wrote: Hi. I wonder if anyone here has the solution to the problems I am experiencing with this motherboard? When playing mp3 files, avi files or games, the system locks up after a period between 20 and 60 minutes. Sometimes it completely locks up and I have to cut the power. Sometimes it reboots itself immediately. Most times when playing mp3s, Media Player (or WinAmp, or Nero Showtime) locks up and there is a buzzing, or rapid ticking, sound. Sometimes it stops when I close Media Player, other times it continues. Either way I have to reboot to get sound working again. It does the above even with only one drive connected. |
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I have this same board. It worked ok for about a year and then started doing
the exact same thing as you describe. I bought a cheap Asus board to use while I RMAed it. The Asus board worked so much better than the KR7A-R that when I got the Abit board back I left the Asus in the machine. A year later I decided to build a box to experiment with Linux and use the KR7A-R. I first installed Windows XP just to make sure it would work. It did not. I finally got XP loaded after 5 hours with random lockups. The next day I tried to start the KR7A-R and it would not boot or give beeps. I contacted Abit and they refused to do anything about it. Finally after 2 weeks of hassle they did agree to RMA the board again. I don't have it back yet. I bought another Asus board to build the Linux box. I just got it in today and waiting for another processor. My suggestion would be dump the Abit board and get an Asus. I know others will disagree but that has been my experience. I built 7 other Abit systems in the last 5 years and the KR7A-R was the only one I have had trouble with. I have heard that this board has design problems and can never be repaired. "Martin" wrote in message ... Hi. I wonder if anyone here has the solution to the problems I am experiencing with this motherboard? When playing mp3 files, avi files or games, the system locks up after a period between 20 and 60 minutes. Sometimes it completely locks up and I have to cut the power. Sometimes it reboots itself immediately. Most times when playing mp3s, Media Player (or WinAmp, or Nero Showtime) locks up and there is a buzzing, or rapid ticking, sound. Sometimes it stops when I close Media Player, other times it continues. Either way I have to reboot to get sound working again. It does the above even with only one drive connected. I have switched the memory around, using one stick in all 4 sockets. I currently have them in 2 and 4. I flashed to the latest BIOS. I had problems with a Netgear ethernet card and swapped it out. I had problems with a Geforce MX 400 card so I bought a 9600XT. No known problems with sound card, and I am NOT buying any more cards! I have now exceeded the permitted number of activations of XP Home with all the hardware changes, and will have to ring Microsoft next time I reinstall! I have tried the VIA v443 drivers and the VIA IDE driver (apparently this one is required to support drives over 137 Gb, not that I have any). The latter seemed to make it worse. Abit tech support reckon I should just use the XP drivers. I tried that, no joy. I've gone through the BIOS and changed settings to those recommended by various parties, i.e. conservative settings for memory, disabled video palette snoop, enabled wait states for memory etc. Power options are set to always on, apart from the monitor which is set to turn off after 20 minutes. Needless to say I have tried it with monitor "always on". I am about ready to set it on fire! I've spent the best part of 4 weeks messing with it. It did this occasionally under Windows ME, but under XP Home with SP2 it is doing it consistently. Any suggestions gratefully received. Also any recommendations for a replacement Socket A mobo with RAID, bearing in mind I have five ATA drives... Thanks, Martin. System: ATHLON XP1800+ KR7A-RAID BIOS version CX inc. HPT 2.34 RAID BIOS (from www.sudhian.com) 2 of Crucial 256Mb memory sticks (CT3272Y265) ATI 9600XT AGP video card Hercules Gamesurround Muse 5.1 sound card RealTek RTL8139 Ethernet card FSP Aurora 300w power supply Lian-Li PC-60 USB case 5 of ATA IDE drives All USB devices unplugged just in case ACPI enabled Drivers: HPT v2.34 VIA Hyperion 4in1 v4.55vp1 (4.51 and 4.43 also tried) VIA USB Filter patch (VIA Bus Master (Ultra DMA) PCI IDE Driver IDE_MPD3014 - now uninstalled) RAID performance patch rpp1.02 |
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Thanks for your comments Hans, I was leaning that way. It shouldn't be this
hard to get a mobo working properly. I think at 3 years old it's too late to RMA it. It was £150 though! Any URLs re the design problems and non-repairability? It works after a fashion as long as you don't want to play any media files. I'll have to see what else is available to fit the rest of my kit. Cheers, Martin. "Hans Wankle" wrote in message ... I have this same board. It worked ok for about a year and then started doing the exact same thing as you describe. I bought a cheap Asus board to use while I RMAed it. The Asus board worked so much better than the KR7A-R that when I got the Abit board back I left the Asus in the machine. A year later I decided to build a box to experiment with Linux and use the KR7A-R. I first installed Windows XP just to make sure it would work. It did not. I finally got XP loaded after 5 hours with random lockups. The next day I tried to start the KR7A-R and it would not boot or give beeps. I contacted Abit and they refused to do anything about it. Finally after 2 weeks of hassle they did agree to RMA the board again. I don't have it back yet. I bought another Asus board to build the Linux box. I just got it in today and waiting for another processor. My suggestion would be dump the Abit board and get an Asus. I know others will disagree but that has been my experience. I built 7 other Abit systems in the last 5 years and the KR7A-R was the only one I have had trouble with. I have heard that this board has design problems and can never be repaired. "Martin" wrote in message ... Hi. I wonder if anyone here has the solution to the problems I am experiencing with this motherboard? When playing mp3 files, avi files or games, the system locks up after a period between 20 and 60 minutes. Sometimes it completely locks up and I have to cut the power. Sometimes it reboots itself immediately. Most times when playing mp3s, Media Player (or WinAmp, or Nero Showtime) locks up and there is a buzzing, or rapid ticking, sound. Sometimes it stops when I close Media Player, other times it continues. Either way I have to reboot to get sound working again. It does the above even with only one drive connected. I have switched the memory around, using one stick in all 4 sockets. I currently have them in 2 and 4. I flashed to the latest BIOS. I had problems with a Netgear ethernet card and swapped it out. I had problems with a Geforce MX 400 card so I bought a 9600XT. No known problems with sound card, and I am NOT buying any more cards! I have now exceeded the permitted number of activations of XP Home with all the hardware changes, and will have to ring Microsoft next time I reinstall! I have tried the VIA v443 drivers and the VIA IDE driver (apparently this one is required to support drives over 137 Gb, not that I have any). The latter seemed to make it worse. Abit tech support reckon I should just use the XP drivers. I tried that, no joy. I've gone through the BIOS and changed settings to those recommended by various parties, i.e. conservative settings for memory, disabled video palette snoop, enabled wait states for memory etc. Power options are set to always on, apart from the monitor which is set to turn off after 20 minutes. Needless to say I have tried it with monitor "always on". I am about ready to set it on fire! I've spent the best part of 4 weeks messing with it. It did this occasionally under Windows ME, but under XP Home with SP2 it is doing it consistently. Any suggestions gratefully received. Also any recommendations for a replacement Socket A mobo with RAID, bearing in mind I have five ATA drives... Thanks, Martin. System: ATHLON XP1800+ KR7A-RAID BIOS version CX inc. HPT 2.34 RAID BIOS (from www.sudhian.com) 2 of Crucial 256Mb memory sticks (CT3272Y265) ATI 9600XT AGP video card Hercules Gamesurround Muse 5.1 sound card RealTek RTL8139 Ethernet card FSP Aurora 300w power supply Lian-Li PC-60 USB case 5 of ATA IDE drives All USB devices unplugged just in case ACPI enabled Drivers: HPT v2.34 VIA Hyperion 4in1 v4.55vp1 (4.51 and 4.43 also tried) VIA USB Filter patch (VIA Bus Master (Ultra DMA) PCI IDE Driver IDE_MPD3014 - now uninstalled) RAID performance patch rpp1.02 |
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