Asus A7V MB & Win2k

[elmo]

Has anyone else had the experience of this combination? Every card I had decided to use IRQ 9. It did not matter what I did. Put Win98 on and everything is great. Win2000 has always worked wonderful before?!?! *bewilderment* Does anyone know a solution to this?

[JOEBOO]

I have four letters for you A-C-P-I...go to your device manager and look in your system properties section you should see stuff like ACPI IRQ Steering or ACPI power management etc etc. basically what is happening here is that since all your PCI cards are complaint with...I think it is 2.0 or 2.1 PCI standard, they have to be able to share the same IRQ. I guess you could try to change them, but you don't need too.

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[elmo]

let me clarify...ACPI i am aware of. Ultimately though, my sound keeps dropping out. It works, then it doesn't. I also get some freaky slow connects through my 100Mb network. the strange behavior is very reminiscent of an IRQ problem. i check the irq to discove that I have over 8 devices sharing IRQ 9. Among them: Sound Card, Video, Network, ATA100, etc.

I think that maybe it was the problem, so i began to try and move some thhings to a different IRQ. no such luck. i guess i am the only one to experience these issues. and, i might add, that it currently has 98 with no problems and the devices on different irqs. if it isn't irq that's great, i just want it to work with 2k.

[TeeCee]

I have the same damn problem with IRQ, and so far, haven't found a way around it yet http://www.sharkyforums.com/ubb/frown.gif

[elmo]

Originally posted by TeeCee:
I have the same damn problem with IRQ, and so far, haven't found a way around it yet http://www.sharkyforums.com/ubb/frown.gif


you are using 2k and a7v?

[Captain Insano]

Win2k causing lots of grief on A7V platform.
Talked to Microsoft Technical support and they told me the new KT133 chipset is not well supported at all with Win2k. Solution= replace with Abit SE6 intel i815 mainboard and PeeIII - I am not impressed with Microshaft.

Cannot add CD-ROM device in Win2k, found out that standard Creative labs 52X CD-ROM IDE not supported by Win2k, very pissed off with the HCL list, ridiculous compatibility list!!
( Yes, it is detected properly in BIOS, it is on own cable, not using the ATA100 controllers at all ( Win2k won't load on them till you load the mainboard drivers for ATA100 ) , yes we tried various new Creative drives so it is not a bad drive, Cable is good, ATA66 controllers pass AMI diags test okay)


Now running hunk of crap Aopen CD-ROM drive cuz at least its model number is on the HCL.

Win2k seems to really suck on VIA chipsets and way too picky about hardware. Microsoft support nonexistent for this combination of mainboard and OS. Big thumbs down!!!!

Where is my copy of Mandrake 7 ??

Captain Insano

[Neo8777]

yes i have installed win2000 and my freeking 72xkenwood rom and my philips400 burner wouldn't show up, thats right win2000 would not have anything to do with them. so right then and there i said screw it. if i'm already having problems with just a cd rom then it's not worth my time...right now.


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72x Kenwood
Creative Soundblaster Live
Philips 400 CDRW
Cambridge FPS2000 Speakers
Custom Built Case

[llreye]

I don't use Win2K on my A7V but couldn't you goto the BIOS, turn off PNP OS and manually set the IRQs? Most of those weird hardware OS problems I've had in Win95 and on (maybe Win 3.0) have been solved by manually setting everything and then working backwards to figure out exactly what is causing the conflict, OS, software or card.

-MKC

[Captain Insano]

Just a follow-up note:

CD-ROMS detect just fine on the bloody Abit SE6 i815 board, imagine that!!

Rotten Wintel conspiracy!!! Fargan Bastages!!
Iceholes!!!

[lutjens]

I have a T-bird 800@1000 with the Asus A7V and it is an unbelievably rock solid combination when running Win2k. It hasn't crashed once since I put my new Alpha PAL6035 on it. And very quick too...

[httpoet]

Are those two CD-ROM drives on the secondary IDE channel? If so, there is a known issue with the BIOS shipped on the A7V that prevents Windows 2000 from seeing the secondary controller. Upgrade to BIOS rev. 1004a and it should fix that problem.

[TeeCee]

Originally posted by elmo:

you are using 2k and a7v?
Yeah, I'm using 2k and A7V

[elmo]

Originally posted by llreye:
I don't use Win2K on my A7V but couldn't you goto the BIOS, turn off PNP OS and manually set the IRQs? Most of those weird hardware OS problems I've had in Win95 and on (maybe Win 3.0) have been solved by manually setting everything and then working backwards to figure out exactly what is causing the conflict, OS, software or card.

-MKC

Nope. I tried that. Win2000 seems to overwrite my bios setup. i completely disabled irq 9, but every device was still on it. i even reinstalled it after disabling the irq. not a chance. still did the same thing. i was a win2k fan.

[quixotik]

I have the same problem =(

Mine is with the ABIT KT7RAID mobo though. Has anybody discovered a way to make Windows stop overriding the IRQs I tried to force through the BIOS?

[llreye]

Since installing Win2K and lurking, it appears Win2K is supposed to "share" IRQs and apparently does it well.

Seems more problems from "fixing" than leaving it alone.
-MKC

[jub]

Win2000 uses ACPI and forces all PCI IRQs to IRQ 9. I read somewhere how you can change it without reinstalling Win2000, but can't remember where. Someone may have the time to search the usual overclocking sites for the link. You have to DISABLE ACPI to change the IRQ assignments.

It is a Win2000 thing and has nothing to do with the motherboard. Here is a link that explains more:
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stevemcd/win2000.htm

Jub

[This message has been edited by jub (edited October 03, 2000).]