Asus P2B-F and SBLive Value w. Max - HELP!!

[Tessen]

After all the wait, the Max came in. BUT...

It will only work as a standard VGA card. If I try to use the drivers either from the included CD-ROM, or Powerdesk 5.30, the system freezes as soon as the desktop is loaded. I know the AGP slot works because I used to run a Rage IIc in it.

Prior to installing the Max, I uninstalled the drivers for the ATI and the Voodoo 3 (PCI) and pulled the cards, then put in only the Max. As a VGA card it worked fine, but that's as far as it went.

So popped the Voodoo back in as well and ran it as the primary card. I enabled the Max as the secondary adapter (getting a black band on the left side of the screen) and tried Direct Draw. The first two tests work, but when I tried to run a full screen draw, the system froze again!

I read the ABIT BE6 boards have an issue with the SB, but what about Asus?

Specs:

Intel PIII-450
Asus P2B-F mobo
128 MB RAM
Matrox Millenium G400 MAX
Promise Ultra/66 I/O card (PCI slot 2)
SB Live! Value (PCI slot 3) (don't know how to determine the LiveWare version?!)
Voodoo 3 2000 (PCI slot 4) (currently primary video adapter)
3Com USR Robotics 56K Winmodem
Fujitsu 17 GB HD (hooked to Promise card)
HP 8200i CD Writer Plus (Promise card)
Optiquest V95 19" monitor
IBM PS/1 14" monitor (pretty old)

No conflicts occur, but IRQ 11 is shared by the SB Live! Value, the Max, and two entries for IRQ holder for PCI steering.

I would greatly appreciate any help.


....Tessen....

[Stringy]

The Live! and other newer sound cards are notorious with using IRQ's and not sharing well...
the G400 can't share an IRQ this is where your problem lies... I suggest you remove the SB LIVE! and see if the G400 works.. if not remove another card...
or you can remove all the cards and place them in one at a time... either way..

You'll prolly have to play alittle Musical Slots in order to get everyone happy...
BTW if you don't use the DOS emulation of the SB Live! (most people don't these days) then Disable it, or if you do want it, make it goto IRQ7, share with Parallel port, this is a nice trick that works I got from my Ensoniq card... Which Creative took some of it's tech from to make the Live!...

With all those extras, the ATA66 controler, 2 Vid's, and a WinModem you are prolly running short on IRQ's...


Good Luck
Craig


[This message has been edited by Stringy (edited 29 October 1999).]

[scotty]

i was talking to andy about this and he suggested taking the sb card out and seeing what's what, then if that didn't do it, try pugging the hd directly into the mb, and removing the i/o card.

if all else fails, just put an order in for that tnt2u you wanted earlier. BWAAHAAHAA!!!

you'll get it going tho, great buncha help around here. all except for that scotty fella, don't listen to anything he says.


8¬)

btw- nice system buddy..... ¦8¬P~ ~ ~


ps- oh yeah, i knew i was fergettin somfin. he also suggested going with all whql approved drivers, at least as long as it takes to see if that will make the difference. so check for matrox, creative sb, and dma66. also find out if the i/o card is whql approved too. if they don't make a diff, then go with the latest drivers.

[This message has been edited by scotty (edited 29 October 1999).]

[ALBPM]

Also the AT/66 card should not share an IRQ with the USB controller

Paul

[Tessen]

Thanks for all the help, everyone! It seems I have a fix, following Deb's advice from around 9 or 10 days ago (she's using an Asus P5A). I d'led the latest AGP beta drivers from the Asus ftp site, and that seemed to do the trick.

Running with an Award Bios, I'm not sure how to manually force the IRQ's. Probably I'll have to do some jumper configuration. I may be limited in what choices I have, though.

....Tessen....