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  • #1

    G400 Lockup + SB Live

    Well I tried all the suggestions I have seen here, even tried removing the SB Live card
    and the computer still froze up.

    AMD K6-II-3D 300 Mhz, Caintech AGM5, SB Live, Win 98, USR PCI Modem, Mitsumi CDR 2x8x,Pioneer 6xDVD, 64 megs, 13 gig Quantim,
    G400 Dual 32 meg.

    Pulling the last of the hair out of my head.....


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    Dave

    Dave
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  • #2
    Just as a matter of point. The problem isn't limited to the G400. I was having similar problems with my G200. I managed to force the IRQ's elsewhere, and lo and behold, nothing crashes anymore.

    HedsSpaz
    Primary System:
    MSI 745 Ultra, AMD 2400+ XP, 1024 MB Crucial PC2100 DDR SDRAM, Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro, 3Com 3c905C NIC,
    120GB Seagate UDMA 100 HD, 60 GB Seagate UDMA 100 HD, Pioneer DVD 105S, BenQ 12x24x40 CDRW, SB Audigy OEM,
    Win XP, MS Intellimouse Optical, 17" Mag 720v2
    Seccondary System:
    Epox 7KXA BIOS 5/22, Athlon 650, 512 MB Crucial 7E PC133 SDRAM, Hercules Prophet 4500 Kyro II, SBLive Value,
    3Com 3c905B-TX NIC, 40 GB IBM UDMA 100 HD, 45X Acer CD-ROM,
    Win XP, MS Wheel Mouse Optical, 15" POS Monitor
    Tertiary system
    Offbrand PII Mobo, PII 350, 256MB PC100 SDRAM, 15GB UDMA66 7200RPM Maxtor HD, USRobotics 10/100 NIC, RedHat Linux 8.0
    Camera: Canon 10D DSLR, Canon 100-400L f4.5-5.6 IS USM, Canon 100 Macro USM Canon 28-135 f3.5-5.6 IS USM, Canon Speedlite 200E, tripod, bag, etc.

    "Any sufficiently advanced technology will be indistinguishable from magic." --Arthur C. Clarke

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    • #3
      Well Talked with Matrox support,

      Problem was narrowed down to a Bios error
      on the Chaintech MB.

      Updated the bios and loaded new Windows drivers from Chaintech for Buss Mastering, and AGP performance.

      System is now running for 24 hours with no lockups, and excellant graphics and sound...

      >>>>
      Dave

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      • #4
        Well, looks like you've got the infamous SBLive/G400 combo problem. Yeah, I know quite a lot of other people don't have this problem, but there seems to be no clear pattern distinguishing between the hardware configs that have or don't have this problem.

        Some people have managed to get their systems to work through various methods (see link below), but they don't work for some people (including me!), so the only sure-fire solution is to disable bus mastering in the PowerDesk options page. BUT disabling bus mastering effectively cuts your game performance by about half. Still waiting for Matrox to do something about it.
        http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/Forum5/HTML/004628.html

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        • #5
          DaveP,

          Oooohh! Now you've got me interested! As I posted in another thread, I have been having problems with the combination:

          Chaintech 6BTM motherboard
          G400 (32MB DH)
          Hauppauge WinTV
          SBLive! Value

          which result in a system hang any time I try to use the Hauppauge card with G400 busmastering & AGP 2x enabled. Can you give me the details of your working setup? i.e.

          Chaintech motherboard model
          Chaintech (Award?) BIOS version
          Chaintech busmastering & AGP drivers version
          G400 drivers & BIOS levels

          Thanks a million...
          Alan

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