g400max lockup in d3d-soyo board-

[dnaylor]

after switching motherboards (bh6 to soyoba6+III)
i cant run any d3d games although the d3d test runs ok
with the bh6 it worked flawlessly with any setting
the max is on irq 11 and only shares it with the IRQ holder for PCI steering
nothing overclocked
any help appreciated

[IceStorm]

Which BIOS do you have? I've got the latest, which reports my CPU as a 522 instead of a 540 (4.5x120Mhz), but other than that, it seems to be a good BIOS. Added support for L2 Cache latency adjustment, too.

I've not had any lockups with the G400 where it was the G400's fault. Most of my lockups are due to beta software, or trying to run XingDVD - doesn't like the G400, it seems.

G400 has it's own IRQ - 11 I believe. Live is on 10, SB emulation is on 5, sharing with the LPT port is enabled. network card is on IRQ 10 or 9, one of those two.

Games run fine, Unreal is gorgeous. Only thing I need to do is disable DirectCD for games to stop skipping (access the drives for some reason...).

Just my $0.02


Just my $0.02.

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Primary System: PIII-540 (450@4.5x120), Soyo 6BA+ III, 256MB PC100 ECC SDRAM, G400 MAX in multi-monitor mode. V2 SLI rig. Two Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 900u monitors, 3Com 3C905, SoundBlaster Live!, Altec Lansing AC5 spkrs, 2nd Parallel Port, WD AC41800 18GB HD, WD AC310100 10GB HD, Toshiba SD-M1212 6x DVD-ROM, HP 8100i CD-RW, Epson Stylus Pro, Sharp JX-9400 LJ-II compatible, OptiUPS PowerES 650, MS SideWinder Precision Pro USB joystick, Logitech 3-button mouse, Mitsumi keyboard, Win98 SE, Belkin OmniCube 4-port KVM

Secondary System: PII-266, Asus P2B BIOS 1008, 128MB PC100 ECC SDRAM, Millennium II, 3Com 3C590, ADSL Modem 640kbit down/90kbit up, 3Com 3C509, Mylex BT-930 SCSI card, Seagate 2GB Hawk, NEC 6x CD-ROM, Linux distro S.u.S.E. 6.1 (IP Masquerade works!)

Tertiary System: DFI G568IPC Intel 430HX chipset, P200MMX, 96MB of non-parity RAM, Millennium II, Intel Pro/100+ client NIC, SoundBlaster 16 MCD, Fujitsu 3.5GB HD, WD 1.2GB HD, Creative Dxr3 DVD decoder card, Hitachi GD-2500 6x DVD-ROM, Win98 SE

All specs subject to change.

[bwhite33]

Try the infamous turning off of bus-mastering for the G400 and see if that lets you do stuff. A lot of hangs seem to go away when busmastering is disabled. Not that that is an answer we want to live with for very long...