ASUS P5A-B/CDROM Problems
Ghats
The CDROM keeps hanging and won't read disks.
Two examples of the problem are, ERES cannot be read in autostart.exe
module when putting the ASUS driver CDROM disk in & Office Pro 97
installation hangs when file installation is to beginning and can't find
any files. After that all kinds of CD's have problems as well.
I have flashed the bios to v.7.0a, and installed every bus revision up
to 3.60 I believe if my memory serves me correctly.
Nothing, absolutely nothing will cure this problem on two indentical
computer with an AMD k6-2 450 MHZ Processor, 128MB PC100 Ram, and 8MB
AGP Video. I'm about to trash these boards and never use ASUS again. I
have tried 3 different brand UDMA CDROM drives that have been tested in
other machines and work, moved them around on both IDE's as slave and
master, nothing works.
I'm out of ideas and time. If anyone has any insight it would be
appreciated.
Andrew Tang
First, it's not ASUS. If you had bought a mobo with Intel chipset and CPU
(e.g., P2-99 or P3B-F) you wouldn't have to install any extra drivers for
IDE or AGP.
Second, for starters, don't have any real mode cdrom drivers in your
config.sys
and autoexec.bat (you can rename these two files to something else for
testing
purpose); and don't install any ALi IDE drivers. Use what comes with Win98
instead.
Ghats
I'm not here to say Intel is better, because I prefer Intel as you do.
The issue is I am looking for support for an ASUS P5A-B Board, and since
ASUS really offers no technical support to speak of, this is the last place
to get it.
A little help rather than a little chiding would be appreciated.
The driver that comes with WIN98 does not allow the CD to operate in DMA
mode. Even if you came over and installed them it wouldn't work without the
ALI drivers. There are no Real mode drivers loaded.
If anyone has anyone experienced this I would appreciate any constructive
help.
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Andrew Tang
Ghats <No...@nope.com> wrote in message
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> Well Andrew,
>
> I'm not here to say Intel is better, because I prefer Intel as you do.
> The issue is I am looking for support for an ASUS P5A-B Board, and since
> ASUS really offers no technical support to speak of, this is the last
place
> to get it.
> A little help rather than a little chiding would be appreciated.
I was merely stating the fact that it would be a lot easier with Intel
chipset and CPU.
You can think whatever you want but please bear in mind when anyone answers
a
question to the NG, it is for all to see and interpret.
> The driver that comes with WIN98 does not allow the CD to operate in DMA
> mode.
That's true, but it works.
>There are no Real mode drivers loaded.
Since you have not provided any hard drive, cdrom drive or any other IDE
drive
information, I can only suggest that you master-slave similar speed
interface devices
together, ie, ata33 (udma 2) with mode 4 or better; and mode 2 with mode 0
or 1.
Also, some (older) cdrom drives like to slaves.
As an example (This was actually done on at least 10 P5A-B's):
1. Quantum 10.2 CX or 8.4 CR, UDMA2
2. Creative Labs 4833E, 48x CDROM, mode 4
3. Seagate TR4 IDE tape backup, mode 4
1. is primary master and 2. primary slave.
3. is secondary master.
In this configuration, 3. is by itself because the tape backup only runs in
pio. The Ali
BM driver v.3.40 is stable, and 1. and 2. are running properly in DMA mode.
nwuser
supplies are "stale".
/L
Ghats wrote:
>
> Well Andrew,
>
> I'm not here to say Intel is better, because I prefer Intel as you do.
> The issue is I am looking for support for an ASUS P5A-B Board, and since
> ASUS really offers no technical support to speak of, this is the last place
> to get it.
> A little help rather than a little chiding would be appreciated.
> The driver that comes with WIN98 does not allow the CD to operate in DMA
Ghats
>
>
> Since you have not provided any hard drive, cdrom drive or any other IDE
> drive
> information, I can only suggest that you master-slave similar speed
> interface devices
> together, ie, ata33 (udma 2) with mode 4 or better; and mode 2 with mode 0
> or 1.
> Also, some (older) cdrom drives like to slaves.
>
> As an example (This was actually done on at least 10 P5A-B's):
>
> 1. Quantum 10.2 CX or 8.4 CR, UDMA2
> 2. Creative Labs 4833E, 48x CDROM, mode 4
> 3. Seagate TR4 IDE tape backup, mode 4
>
> 1. is primary master and 2. primary slave.
> 3. is secondary master.
>
> In this configuration, 3. is by itself because the tape backup only runs in
> pio. The Ali
> BM driver v.3.40 is stable, and 1. and 2. are running properly in DMA mode.
>
> --
> andy...@excite.com
I did neglect to say the hard drive is an IBM 15.2 GB Deskstar. The
primary and master slave settings are good advice, however they do not
work. I also disabled the ATA 66 using IBM's software to no avail.
I spoke with a local vendow who uses these boards all the time, and the
suggested secondary slave as well, and that doesn't work. They did
indicate that they use only pioneer and mitsumi cdroms. The cdroms I use
aren't always pioneer and mitsumi, yet they work in all other
configurations with no problem. I even pulled the CDROM out of my
computer and tried it to no avail, and the ASUS CDROM that comes with
the motherboard will not run out of autostart (setup.exe will not run).
I put the cdrom unit back in my computer, insert ASUS CDROM and it runs
with no problems.
So as a last ditch effort, I am going to try some name brand cdroms.
My personal PC is an ASUS p2-b, and before that was a P552tp4.
The problem I have with this particular board is that I have built many
socket 7 AMD configurations with other motherboards and had none of
these problems. Being that I have two identical configurations with the
same problems indicates to me that the boards aren't bad, but there is
some general shortcoming. Once this one is solved, if ever which I am
beginning to doubt, I will not use ASUS for Socket 7 again. If using
name brand cdrom fixes it I will post.
Ghats
>
> ALI drivers can be found at http://www.ali.com.tw/ , the drivers ASUS
> supplies are "stale".
> /L
>
Thanks, those are the drivers that I installed Sunday evening, and they
are much more recent than the ASUS site.
Unknown
32x 6202b CD-Rom & a Yamaha CRW4416E Re-Writable. These two devices
worked fine for some time. I have upgraded my BIOS to 1008. I have
upgraded my CPU to an AMD450 & have upgraded my operating system to
WIN98SE. MY MB is an Asus P5a-b. My cd's hang also while reading
them. I am ready to yank my CPU, reflash the BIOS & go back to
Win95c.........
can anyone help with this?
Unknown
Heare is some more info.........
Again the problem is read & write errors from the CD's .... both CD's
have reading problems.
They will read a file stop in the middle.... the cd will spin &
continue reading.... at the same time the hard drive LED will remain
lit as will the CD-Rom light. If I am accessing a music file the
sound will stop. When burning mp3's I find some of the songs will have
chunks of data from other songs..... Like the laser is skipping when
writing.... this does not explain the read problems tho'
Microsoft Windows 98 4.10.2222 A
Clean install using Full CD /T:C:\WININST0.400 /SrcDir=F:\WIN98 /IZ
/IS /IQ /IT /II /NR /II /C /U:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
IE 5 5.00.2614.3500
Uptime: 0:00:46:59
Normal mode
AuthenticAMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
96MB RAM
57% system resources free
Windows-managed swap file on drive C (2361MB free)
Available space on drive C: 2357MB of 3073MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive D: 4MB of 808MB (FAT32)
[Hardware Resources]
[Conflicts/Sharing]
IRQ 14 Primary IDE controller (dual fifo)
IRQ 14 ALi M5229 PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
IRQ 15 Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo)
IRQ 15 ALi M5229 PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
[DMA]
2 Standard Floppy Disk Controller
3 Creative Sound Blaster 16 Plug and Play
4 Direct memory access controller
7 Creative Sound Blaster 16 Plug and Play
0 (free)
1 (free)
5 (free)
6 (free)
[Forced Hardware]
Forced Hardware
There is no Forced Hardware on this computer.
[I/O]
x0000 - x000F Direct memory access controller
x0020 - x0021 Programmable interrupt controller
x0040 - x0043 System timer
x0060 - x0060 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural Keyboard
x0061 - x0061 System speaker
x0064 - x0064 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural Keyboard
x0070 - x0071 System CMOS/real time clock
x0080 - x0090 Direct memory access controller
x0094 - x009F Direct memory access controller
x00A0 - x00A1 Programmable interrupt controller
x00C0 - x00DE Direct memory access controller
x00F0 - x00F0 Numeric data processor
x0170 - x0177 ALi M5229 PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
x0170 - x0177 Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo)
x01F0 - x01F7 ALi M5229 PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
x01F0 - x01F7 Primary IDE controller (dual fifo)
Thanks Dan
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999 01:14:08 GMT, Danny and Anita
<ani...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>Media,
>
>I have an ASUS P5A-B Rev 1.03 with a K6-2/450 running BIOS 1009 Beta 1 w/
>Windows 98SE. I have a HP 7200i CDR and I'm not having any of the probs that
>you or others are indicating since I've gone away from the Ali bus master
>drivers. I switched to the Windows98 default driver of: "ALi M5229 PCI Bus
>Master IDE Controller" and I've never had a problem writing since. Don;t
>just simply change the driver though, make sure that you uninstall it
>properly using the Ali utility.
>
>Once you have the default Windows driver loaded, make sure that you turn off
>or uncheck the DMA box in your CDR settings tab in device manager and you'll
>be off to the races. It's OK to have the DMA box checked (enabled) for HD
>but HP and many other CDR manufacturers do not recommend turning it on for
>CDR has it could cause a buffer underun.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Danny
Danny and Anita
sixTsix
Secondary Master and the other Primary Slave. I solve mine this way.