PD5 royally f***s up my system.

[Maggi]

Hi xevious,

some weeks back I experienced about the same problem that you described ...

What actually did help me was:

reboot & reboot ... no kidding !

I didn't figure out wht went wrong, but my installation went like this:

- boot into safe mode
- used uninstaller
- installed PD
- reboot
- that error message about not properly installed ...
- I cancelled that 16 color display prop requester
- reboot
- ... everything back to normal state (!)

...

Don't know if this applies also to your system, but give it a try.


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Cheerio,
Maggi

Asus P2B-S @ 112MHz FSB - Bios 1010 final
Celeron300A @ 504Mhz
128MB 7ns SDRAM
G400 DualHead 32MB SGRAM @ 201 MHz memory clock

[Tumu]

Xevious, try disabling the "PNP OS Installed" setting in BIOS and define yourself what IRQs and DMAs are used by ISA and PCI/AGP cards. I would suggest to try to get the network card to IRQ 10 and G200 to 11. And if you have a divided ISA/PCI slot on your Mobo, watchout. Atleast my mobo doesn't want to work with IRQs lower than 9 in that slot. Weird huh?

-Tumu


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Celeron 333 (not overclocked), GigaByte 6BXE Intel 440BX AGPset Mobo (bios v3.2),
64MB PC100 RAM, G200 8MB SGRAM (not overclocked, a 486 fan included, bios v2.3), Win95OSR2.1 finnish, PD5.13.020, SB16 Value

[SteveC]

top....

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Cheers,
Steve

My PC houses one of these things which seems to affect some people's lives far too much...

[xevious]

I just reinstalled Windows, which didnt work. Now I'm going to try disabling those bios settings sixpac said to disable, and then if that doesnt work, I'm going to try manually assigning IRQ 11 to my g200 and either 10 or 15 to my net card.

-Matt.

[xevious]

I just reinstalled Windows, which didnt work. Now I'm going to try disabling those bios settings sixpac said to disable, and then if that doesnt work, I'm going to try manually assigning IRQ 11 to my g200 and either 10 or 15 to my net card.

-Matt.

[Pertti]

Hi Guys,

Has anyone tried installing the latest DX6.1 and DX6.0Media files from MicroS**t.

I was having the same problems with fresh installation of OEM W98, and after couple of reboots the problem went away after having installed the DX6.1+DX6.0Media.
Installing the latest Chipset specific drivers to the Soyo5EHM, ETEQ (VIA) wasn't enough.

I am about to try to an other HD to see if I can reproduce the problem.

Best regards,
Pertti

[billko]

xevious:

I hate to say it, but the VIA VP3 chip set is overrun with bugs. It was VIA's first attempt at a Socket7 AGP chip set. It can't do 100MHz bus, and it can't do AGP2X. Their AGP driver will automatically disable bus mastering - hey wait! This gives me an idea! Maybe bus mastering was disabled all the time in PD 4.x, but since the new PD 5.x puts its registry keys in a different place, the bus mastering isn't being disabled any more? I experimented with an old VP3 board I had lying around, and when I put in PD 5.13, the VIA AGP drivers tried disabling it by putting the old key in the old place. I would seriously consider a move to a motherboard with an MVP3 chipset. It will work much better.

Bill


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People call me a computer god; I remind them that I am merely a minor deity...

[DentyCracker]

I have the same problem as you.
I have got my machine to work with 5.13 (up to yesterday when I reinstalled). However I forget the registry hack to turn busmasterng off.(Which someone in the forum told me)


You can disable busmastering with the 5.13 drivers, you just have to hack the registry. The key for it is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Class\Display\0000\Settings\Engine. Change the value for "BusMastering" to "0".

That's it. I just looked back in the archives

It is also said that turning off BusMastering also turns off AGP. Well if that is so then so be it. All I know is that turning off BusMastering is the only way I get my G200 to run on my VA503+

I also am not interested in getting AGP to work at the expense of changing peripherals.

In any case I shall be rid of socket7/G200 by October/November and moving on to G400Max/Slot A.......hehe

You'll obviously have to run regedit in safe mode. Be prepared to create the Engine key and BusMastering value yourself.
Strangely enough Powerdesk loads normally after doing this and in display properties under advanced you get the option to turn off busmastering.

I got rid of PD5 and reinstalled because Lavaplayer (and any other OpenGL app) crashed the machine.
NEway, hope this helps

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Cracker_99
VA 503+ 1.2 (my 1.1 board got damaged by my little brother, before he became a doctor and made me start my Internship)
K6-III 450
96MB RAM
10GB HD
SB Live!
Millennium G200
AverMedia TV98
Win98 SE, BeOS 4.5.1, Linux 2.2.11

[sixpac]

My board works fine with busmastering on.
are you sure you have write cache pipeline
and read around write diabled in the bios?

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Amd K6-2 350@452,Fic 503+ 1.2a,64mb Mushkin Samsung GHcas2,Maxtor 8.4gb,G200 Mill.8mb Sgram,Yamaha sound

[The PIT2]

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