Thank You!!!

[Warlºck]

I ordered a new mobo for a month ago, hoping this would solve the crashing if I enabled busmastering on my G400 MAX. In the meantime I've been lurking around these forums and found that many had problems with lock-ups due to the AGP card didn't align properly in the AGP-slot if firmly mounted(sp?).

Anyway, I called the store I ordered my new mobo from and asked if they had some information on where the *coughhellcough* my mobo was. They said they didn't know.

Then, after finishing work, I took a look at my Matrox card to see if it actually was misaligned (quite pessimistic after all the things I've previously tried) and I'd be darned! It was!!! My hopes began to rise and I started to bend and tweak the physics of my card until it was placed correctly; aligned and firm.

Believe me, I was surprised when it actually worked! I never thought my Shuttle mobo with a freaking VIA chipset would ever handle busmastering.

Now all my games run smoothly!

So thank you guys for your State-Of-The-Art-Support! I'm very pleased!

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~Warlºck

[This message has been edited by Warlºck (edited 19 October 1999).]

[Jorden]

You did cancel your new *coughhellcough* mobo right away, btw??

[Warlºck]

hehe...sure. Right after they couldn't give me an answer why it was delayed over a month.

Still got troubles enabling DMA for my diskdrives though. But that's another matter between my SB Live and mobo (Crackling sounds when playing soundfiles during diskaccess).

I'm too happy to give a damn about it for now.

Cheers!



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~Warlºck

[motub]

Do NOT enable DMA for your CD-ROM drives... somebody finally dropped me a clue to turn it off, and now I have CD Audio and CD-RW capacity for the 1st time in months..!!!

Let that be a warning to you, Warlock!!

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Holly
"All you people, can't you see, can't you see
How his love's affecting my reality
Everytime I'm down, he can make it right
And that makes him larger than life..."
(...not to mention being 6'5", eh Jord...? )
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What? System specs? Oh, yes, right...well, at the moment, it's: Soyo 5EMA, K6-2 333, 256MB PC100 SDRAM, Maxtor 7GB HDD, LS-120, Promise Ultra33 EIDE controller, Diamond Monster Sound MX300, HP 8100i CD-RW, Hi-Val (Nakamichi) 16X 5-disk CD changer, Win98 +SR1...oh yeah, and a Millennium G200 8MB SGRAM.



[This message has been edited by motub (edited 20 October 1999).]

[Baxman]

What do you know..this may be my problem with the bus mastering enabled then.

I will try it as soon as I get home, I have noticed that my G400 sometimes when I have been working inside the computer have tendencies to stop working.

What drivers are you using?

Right now I have PD5.30, LW! 2.1 and DX 7.0 and I can still not enable bus mastering.

Greetings

Baxman



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PIII 550, Intel SE440BX,
128 MB pc100 RAM,
SB Live!, Fuijtsu 17.3GB, AOpen 6xDVD, HP 8100i CD-RW, Mitsubichi Diamond 900u Pro 19" Monitor, Creative FPS2000 Speakers, Intel
10/100 MBits network card, Matrox G400 Max

[SCompRacer]

motub, that MAX hasn't made it's way into your 'puter yet? Is it suffering from jet lag?

[motub]

no, I have to take this system down and install the BX board and the hand-me-down PII I also got from Jord... but I'm afraid to, I always try to do these quick upgrades and go down for a week...

Can't afford that, just yet... soon.

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Holly