Problems w/ G400,Athlon500, Asus K7M Please help!!!

[Kii]

I know this topic has been done to death, but so far none of the solutions seem to be working for me.
I have an Athlon 500@500, Asus K7M motherboard, G400, 2 ethernet cards. I've seen all the problems. I get the plaid screen of death, I get lockups when playing any machine intensive game (Quake 3, Midtown Madness), I get abnormal program termination in the middle of games ( after a few minutes of playing, the game stops and I'm back in windows) also seen somtimes in Windows (Explorer or IExplorer crashes), I get a black screen w/ white horizontal and vertical lines and various other bits of instability.
I've installed windows 98 and 98se many time.
Currently I'm runnig 98se w/ all the windows updates, as well with the updated Asus and G400 bios.
I've run memtest on my memory (it passed).
I've tried changing the VIO from 3.4 to 3.31 ( where it is now), and I've switched from 3 VSB to 3 Volts, I've also tried the force 2X AGP reg file (which didn't work) as well as force 1X AGP (which didn't work either)
And lastly, I bought a new AMD recommended Antec 300W power supply. I'm pretty much at the end of my rope, so any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

My System is

Athlon 500
Asus K7M bios rev 1.07
Matrox powerdesk 5.5
Quantum Fireball 10.2
Samsung ??? 3.2
I'm using the onboard audio.

My IRQ's are as follows
0 System timer
1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural Keyboard
2 Programmable interrupt controller
3 Communications Port (COM2)
4 Communications Port (COM1)
5 (free)
6 Standard Floppy Disk Controller
7 ECP Printer Port (LPT1)
8 System CMOS/real time clock
9 Realtek RTL8029(AS) PCI Ethernet NIC
9 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering
10 Realtek RTL8029(AS) PCI Ethernet NIC
10 VIA PCI Audio controller (WDM)
10 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering
11 Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead - English
11 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering
12 VIA Tech 3038 PCI to USB Universal Host Controller
12 VIA Tech 3038 PCI to USB Universal Host Controller
12 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering
13 Numeric data processor
14 Primary Bus Master IDE controller (dual fifo)
14 VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Controller (Ultra DMA)
15 Secondary Bus Master IDE controller (dual fifo)
15 VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Controller (Ultra DMA)

[Kii]

Also sometimes in windows, my screen messes up and becomes two small corrupted displays in the top half of the screen..

[Gum]

Did you remember to install the AMD AGP miniport drivers?

Try uninstalling the current G400 PD drivers, then install the AGP miniport first, lastly install the G400 PD drivers & of cos DX7

[Kii]

I've tried installing the miniport first ( after windows is first installed) then PD, with no luck ( when using 98 1st edition I used the updates as well).

[Paradox]

1. Boot up in safe mode
2. UNINSTALL the G400
3. After uninstalling, reinstall the G400
4. It will ask to reboot. Let it reboot.
5. After rebooting, it will say it found the G400, and is looking for drivers. Let it reboot again.
6. After the second reboot, it will then install the TurboGL. (It might also install monitor)

I've had the exact same problem with the plaid screen. Leave all the voltage settings at default. I didn't force AGP 2x. To get the G400 running at AGP2x, install the "Turbo" version of the AGP miniport...
ok now i'm confusing myself
Good luck

[Kii]

What is the " Turbo " version?

Kii

[Justifier]

I had lots of problems and found it was another card using bus mastering that was causing the bombouts when used with the G400MAX. The latest sound card drivers fixed my problem (aureal 2040 reference drivers). I would try removing your realtek card and then see what happens. If no luck then remove your sound card and see if that solvers the lock ups. Hope this might help.

[MXR4LIFE]

I'm curious about the 2 NIC's?

Also boot into safe mode and look for duplicate (ghost) drivers in device manager

A sound card sharing an IRQ with a NIC is not good.

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[This message has been edited by MXR4LIFE (edited 26 January 2000).]