Author Topic: Mrsid2 and anyone else (Read 444 times)

TheflyingElk · « **on:** January 31, 2002, 12:16:04 PM »

greetings again you mentioned SBlive giving you problems with 133A VIA chipset MB, I seem to have this issue keeping me from getting past Tower in AH with sound card in I get to tower and boom Brite blue screen. graphics work ok without sound card in Geforce 3 ti 200 and sb live don't seem to like each other your thoughts:) ?

Lephturn · « **Reply #1 on:** January 31, 2002, 12:40:06 PM »

Need a LOT more information.

First of all, what is your IRQ distribution? What mainboard are you running? What slots are your PCI cards in?

Next, do you have the latest Creative drivers, the latest VIA 4-in-1's, and what version of the Detonator drivers are you running?

TheflyingElk · « **Reply #2 on:** January 31, 2002, 03:54:25 PM »

OK here we go, Tyan trinity 450 133A apollo MB, legacy via drivers in XP, I have not dl'ed the 4in1's yet won't unless I have too, using last pci slot SBLIVE IRQ 17 , Geforce 3 in AGP lists IRQ 16, latest XP drivers for creative, Detonator 27.20 for nividia video card, (will drop back to 21.83 or for testing) Iam researching how to manually assign IRQ in BIOS that mite help, coworker suggests deleting some of the config.sys files if sb is listed to stop the old SB irq assignment, I loaded from fresh XP install and didnt have any problems until SB load then the instability started again, so thats where Iam at now If you need any other info. I will post this problem is starting to make me a little nuts:p also direct x version installed by XP, why are the IRQ # listed so high seems 15 should be top?

gawd I would love to hope in a Tiffe and Blow something UP:(

SpyCat · « **Reply #3 on:** February 04, 2002, 02:57:29 PM »

sounds like you may have forgot to configure SB in sb software.

mrsid2 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 04, 2002, 04:02:52 PM »

Elk: Go to http://www.viahardware.com and download the patch for SB live. If that doesn't fix your problem we'll have to think further.

Lephturn · « **Reply #5 on:** February 04, 2002, 04:37:14 PM »

Put the 4-in-1's on first. Then patch that Mr.Sid2 mentioned.

Are your SBLive or your video sharing an IRQ with anything else?

You can't manually re-assign IRQ's to PCI cards, you have to assign them to the slots. Normally several slots share with other slots, and onboard devices. Dig out your mainboard manual and it should have the details. Generally the first PCI slot beneath the AGP slot shares with the AGP. The second PCI is often a good choice. Third PCI sometimes shares with USB. If you have a second IDE controller on the board (RAID or anything like that) it will share with other slots as well. It's not usually a matter of changing what IRQ's are in what slots, but moving the soundcard to a slot that isn't sharing with anything else.

Bloody creative drivers SUCK. Does msconfig work in XP? If so, try un-checking config.sys and autoexec.bat so they don't run, XP doesn't need them. Just doublecheck that everything works OK. That's what I do, because the SB drivers will just write themselves back into the files if you REM them out. I just don't run the autoexec.bat or config.sys instead, they are only for compatibility, and are not required by the OS.

Run the 21.81 Detonators... trust me. http://www.otakupc.com/downloads/nvidia_drivers.shtml

SpyCat · « **Reply #6 on:** February 04, 2002, 04:59:31 PM »

i you disable the serial/parallel ports you will not have problems. This is how I solved my problems.

mrsid2 · « **Reply #7 on:** February 04, 2002, 05:49:30 PM »

Lephturn I think XP has native support for VIA so 4in1 drivers are built in to XP therefore it might work with a clean install.