Serious Motherboard probs, ALl mannor of shit is raining down upon me.. please help..

[CMB]

to save me typing out everysingle detail again
here is a link to my thread in the desktop video forum though that was my main problem it has now grown and i would appreciate any or all input on ABITBE6 conflicts or whathave you
the link is http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/Forum2/HTML/002824.html
thanks i hope you can help me im at my wits end (never been there before, i always thought it was an odd thing to say but WOW, 'wits end' really exists)

[ALBPM]

Hi CMB,

I read over your thread in Video. For starters here are my Bios settings for the my Bios for my BE6.
http://home.att.net/~albpm2/be6current.txt

The Soft MenuII and PNP/PCI Config sections will be different than yours. I don't know what processor your using at this point/ I do have two IBM ATA/66 harddrives and a SCSI CDR .

Here is a blank bios file to save and write in your settings.
http://home.att.net/~albpm2/be6bios.txt

Paul

[CMB]

thanks i have a P3 450
what g400 card do you use?
if you have a marvel or RRG what is playback like for you?

[ALBPM]

I have a G400MAX in mine. I'm not set up for video. Check through the Bios settings and set your Hard drives to 4 in the High Point setup page when you boot up.

Paul

[CMB]

hi again,
tried that im afriad
ive had it on both UDMA 2,UDMA 4 and PIO 4
but no joy, if i didnt try video editing, i dont think id be aware of a problem now cos everything else now seems ok

[ALBPM]

Are you overclocking the processor??

Paul

[CMB]

nope, i used to overclock it to 494 and 504
but i havent overclocked it this year

I got my new drive and added it as a slvae to my DVD drive
then my dvd playback went screwy
this prompted me to buy a new motherboard on the word of my pals who both have totally troublew free Abit Be6 one has a g400 and once has a TNT2, anyhow i go the abit with the view that it would fix DVD probs, and i would be able to add another hard drive at a later date...

well we all know how that plan turned out dont we :O)

but now im running my p3 at the default 450/100 setting

[ALBPM]

Are you using any AT/33 Drives on the ATA/66 contoller?? If you slave these in with ATA/66 Hard Drives it will run at the slower speed. Some ATA/66 Hard Drives require a patch to revert to AT/33 speed.

Paul

[CMB]

nope, my 33 drives are on channel 1 my DVD on ch 2
and my 66 20 gig Maxtor on CH 3
and when i take it off and just use the normal ones i get the same
jitter on video playback (mjpeg)
ive tried reseating my marvel but no joy

[ALBPM]

So, what drives are plugged into the primary and secondary ATA/66 and the primary and secondary IDE slots???

Paul

[ALBPM]

Darn, all that looks good!! Hmmm...

Paul

[CMB]

now this is weired see,
i woke up this morning and was all set to switch motherboards back.. so i went to show my cousin how the Mjpeg video files play jerkily and they were (mostly) fine a great inmprovement on before. but they playback jerky on my monitor??????????
mostly fine on my TV?????
im starting to give in!!
i just dont know whats goin on!

[CMB]

A BREAKTHROUGH??? kind of

in the archives of MURC i found this http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/Forum2/HTML/002221.html

where a fellow BE6 owner describes the exact problem i have... He resigned himself to put up with it, but surely that defeats the purpose of having a marvel. and the ability to video capture?

i wonder is this an inherrant problem bewteen the marvel and the BE6???

[ALBPM]

It looks like he switched to a Tyan mobo and still had the problem. I'm beginning to wonder if it could be the Marvel.

Anyone else have ideas here......

Paul

[CMB]

hmmm i didnt see that.
My marvel used to be fine though.
This time last week it was flawless for video.
I think i posted in a forum that i had never had video problems, that is im sure the main reaosn for all the shit im going through now :O)
maybe it is the marvel but for whatever reason they sure dont like each other (motherboard and graphics card i mean)