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K7V, G400; it seems to be working...
Now I am rather new to this whole Athlon thing (72 hours), but so far, after the normal break-in period my system seems to be running without major problems in Win98. This is not an opinion thread; I just want to know what I can do to avoid more problems down the road, and what I can do to optimize my system.
Anyway, I have a Asus K7V, G400 MAX, SBLive!, 3Com network card, and Adaptec 2940UW. Sounds like the "standard" setup for Athlon problems (from what I gather from previous threads). On my current Win98 setup, I am running the 4.20 drivers, with version 4.00.0000 (dated 12/27/1999 I believe) VIAGART.VXD. I have not yet messed around with G400 reg-hacks, and pcilist reports the following:
(check boxes)
AGP Enabled : Pipeline depth - 32 : Sideband addressing : 4x transfer rate
(Report)
AGP revision - 2.00
VGA IRQ - 11, shared
AGP aperture - 256MB
System board AGP transfer support - n/a
Graphics card AGP transfer support - 1x, 2x, 4x
AGP traffic currently enabled - n/a
System board SBA - n/a
Graphics card SBA - supported
AGP sideband currently enabled - no
Pipelined transactions - supported, queue depth of 32
Fast write protocol - n/a
(Long Report extracts)
The system board does NOT support AGP transfers. The graphics card supports up to 4X AGP transfers.
The system board does NOT support sideband addressing. The graphics card supports sideband addressing.
The graphics card does NOT support fast writes.
Why the system board does not support certain things (like sideband) in the text report is beyond me, but if anyone can comment on it, I would appreciate it. In the BIOS, currently most settings are at their default, except for:
AGP Aperture 128MB
Fast Writes Disabled
UC (NOT USWC)
AGP 4x Auto
Video BIOS ROM Shadow Disabled
Spread Spectrum Disabled
and perhaps a few others (I'll have to check). The video card currently shares its IRQ with a few other devices, but since I haven't yet found any problems with it in Win98SE, I am not going to try and change it.
Things get a little nasty though on a new installation of Win98SE, and on Win2000. In the new Win98SE, I will get GPFs and the like just as the system is booting up. I was able (somehow) to stop the errors by modifying BIOS settings, including setting AGP Aperture = 16 MB. On that installation, PCIList reported 2x AGP transfers, and no checkbox on the sideband addressing. I was using the 4.02 AGP driver on that one, which might have been part of the problem.
I used to be able to get Windows 2000 to boot up and run without a problem (up until Tuesday evening), even though it didn't have Hibernation support. Now, it hangs while in the bootup phase (the progress bar is either at 2/3 or 9/10 and freezes). I understand that I should try and replace viagart.vxd manually while in Safe Mode, but I find it very unusual that my system booted fine into Win2K for at least the first 24 hours.
If anyone can volunteer information (and not overly anti- or pro-VIA opinions) to help me fix those errors and improve my system, I would appreciate it.
Anyway, I have a Asus K7V, G400 MAX, SBLive!, 3Com network card, and Adaptec 2940UW. Sounds like the "standard" setup for Athlon problems (from what I gather from previous threads). On my current Win98 setup, I am running the 4.20 drivers, with version 4.00.0000 (dated 12/27/1999 I believe) VIAGART.VXD. I have not yet messed around with G400 reg-hacks, and pcilist reports the following:
(check boxes)
AGP Enabled : Pipeline depth - 32 : Sideband addressing : 4x transfer rate
(Report)
AGP revision - 2.00
VGA IRQ - 11, shared
AGP aperture - 256MB
System board AGP transfer support - n/a
Graphics card AGP transfer support - 1x, 2x, 4x
AGP traffic currently enabled - n/a
System board SBA - n/a
Graphics card SBA - supported
AGP sideband currently enabled - no
Pipelined transactions - supported, queue depth of 32
Fast write protocol - n/a
(Long Report extracts)
The system board does NOT support AGP transfers. The graphics card supports up to 4X AGP transfers.
The system board does NOT support sideband addressing. The graphics card supports sideband addressing.
The graphics card does NOT support fast writes.
Why the system board does not support certain things (like sideband) in the text report is beyond me, but if anyone can comment on it, I would appreciate it. In the BIOS, currently most settings are at their default, except for:
AGP Aperture 128MB
Fast Writes Disabled
UC (NOT USWC)
AGP 4x Auto
Video BIOS ROM Shadow Disabled
Spread Spectrum Disabled
and perhaps a few others (I'll have to check). The video card currently shares its IRQ with a few other devices, but since I haven't yet found any problems with it in Win98SE, I am not going to try and change it.
Things get a little nasty though on a new installation of Win98SE, and on Win2000. In the new Win98SE, I will get GPFs and the like just as the system is booting up. I was able (somehow) to stop the errors by modifying BIOS settings, including setting AGP Aperture = 16 MB. On that installation, PCIList reported 2x AGP transfers, and no checkbox on the sideband addressing. I was using the 4.02 AGP driver on that one, which might have been part of the problem.
I used to be able to get Windows 2000 to boot up and run without a problem (up until Tuesday evening), even though it didn't have Hibernation support. Now, it hangs while in the bootup phase (the progress bar is either at 2/3 or 9/10 and freezes). I understand that I should try and replace viagart.vxd manually while in Safe Mode, but I find it very unusual that my system booted fine into Win2K for at least the first 24 hours.
If anyone can volunteer information (and not overly anti- or pro-VIA opinions) to help me fix those errors and improve my system, I would appreciate it.
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