Is this okay!?

[Ad B]

My G400 is sharing these in Win2k:

I/O:
0x03B0-0x03BB ALi M1541 PCI to AGP Controller OK
0x03B0-0x03BB Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead Max - English OK
0x03C0-0x03DF ALi M1541 PCI to AGP Controller OK
0x03C0-0x03DF Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead Max - English OK

And Memory:
0xA0000-0xC7FFF PCI bus OK
0xA0000-0xC7FFF ALi M1541 PCI to AGP Controller OK
0xA0000-0xC7FFF Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead Max - English OK
0x4000000-0xFFEFFFFF PCI bus OK
0xE4000000-0xE7FFFFFF ALi M1541 PCI to AGP Controller OK
0xE4000000-0xE7FFFFFF Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead Max - English OK
0xE8000000-0xE9FFFFFF ALi M1541 PCI to AGP Controller OK
0xE8000000-0xE9FFFFFF Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead Max - English OK
0xD0000000-0xDFFFFFFF ALi M1541 PCI to AGP Controller OK
0xE5000000-0xE57FFFFF Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead Max - English OK


Is this okay?
Cos' I'm having problems.

[EchoWars]

Need to get some of these W2K gurus to help you out. Posting your IRQ assignments would help...

Up........

[Ad B]

Well, the card is sharing with no other device on IRQ 11.

I'll post then list in a bit . . .

[Jorden]

It's not as if I hadn't warned you before, Ad B. Or did you forget all about the last thread?

I hope for you that someone can help you this time, or at least that you're willing to listen

Jorden.
<stupid>

[Ad B]

Okay, here it is:

5 Sound Blaster 16 or AWE32 or compatible (WDM)
9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System
11 Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead Max - English
11 ALi PCI to USB Open Host Controller
8 System CMOS/real time clock
13 Numeric data processor
6 Standard floppy disk controller
4 Communications Port (COM1)
3 Communications Port (COM2)
12 PS/2 Compatible Mouse
1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
7 3Com Windows Modem TI
14 Primary IDE Channel
15 Secondary IDE Channel

Oh, it does share with something :0)

[AlgoRhythm]

The stuff in the first message (I/O ports and addresses) looks fine to me.

It's perfectly normal for the AGP controller to share memory and I/O with your AGP card.

AlgoRhythm

[Ad B]

Good :0)

[Bixler]

Obvious.

Get your G400 on its own IRQ. You do this in your BIOS, sometimes in Device Mgr. or by moving cards around in more primitive m/b systems.

Also select "Assign IRQ to VGA" in your bios if you have that option.

As I recall it was two weeks ago that you blew off a request for this information...ya coulda been runnin' sweet back then Ad B.

Double check those IRQ's, go through the steps necessary to get the G400 on its own, and report back.

And make nice with Jorden--he's one of the better Bios boys. If you'll follow instructions, you will learn a lot.

I'm outta here!

[This message has been edited by Bixler (edited 15 February 2000).]

[Ad B]

I have no PCI cards, and two ISA cards. I don't have an "Assign IRQ to VGA" option, plus, when I try set IRQ's to Legacy ISA, it makes no difference. Win2k seems to reset the IRQ's them, I believe.

I have a GA-5AX rev 5.x SS7 mobo.

[Bixler]

Since you don't have, or need USB...Try disabling it in your bios, or moving it to another IRQ in Device Mgr. If that option isn't available, Disable the USB host controller through Hardware profiles in device mgr.

There are others here who know much more about the exact sequence and procedure. If all this doesn't work, a nice new post asking for the proper re-install sequence from scratch MAY be the solution for you.
If you don't piss him off, GURM can maybe help you with the proper driver install sequence from a freshly formatted HDD and a clean reinstall.

You've got early SS7 stuff here, and early SS7's are notorious for bugs, often related to a noisy bus.

Also--force AGP1x if you can.

Why Win2K on this old stuff? Aren't you a gamer?

[Ad B]

I have a Intellimouse w/ Intellieye, I was using it with USB, i switched it to PS/2, and it got rid of a conflict. But now this one came around. D'oh. I'll try disabling it.

I do have USB disabled in the BIOS, I think. I'll double check though.

Oh, I ain't a hard-core PC gamer really. I'm a website designer, and Squaresoft freak :0)

[Jorden]

Ad B, have you tried the latest BIOS for your mobo? (If not, you can d/l it here.)

This BIOS has Support Windows 2000 ACPI mode installation.

Plus you say you have rev. 5.x of the GA-5AX.
Could you please for once be a bit more specific?? For there's a PCB Rev. 5.2 First Edition and <someone wants to guess?>a Second Edition.<fool>

This could help others as well.

Jorden.

Thx for the compliment, Tim. Does that make me a BB??

[Jorden]

Oh, btw, I do hope you reinstalled the ALi Ultra DMA 33/66 Bus Master IDE driver and the ALi AGP GART VxD driver?

[HollyBerri]

I don't have an "Assign IRQ to VGA" option

Is this possible?? Don't all SS7 boards--in fact pretty much all boards still available now--have this option in BIOS?

Or do I just get too many Award BIOSes?

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Holly

[This message has been edited by HollyBerri (edited 16 February 2000).]

[Holerith]

Just for my own curiousity, is there such a thing as an ISA Winmodem? I have only encountered PCI Winmodems.


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