G400/Athlon Problems
Martin Campbell
changing the motherboard, processor, and case, unfortunately I've had a lot
of teething problems.
The PC is now comprised of a Gigabyte GA-7IXE motherboard with AMD chipset,
an Athlon 700 processor heatsink and fans, 2 x 64Mb PC100 DIMMs, 1 x 128Mb
PC100 DIMM, Adaptec 2940UW SCSI Controller Card, SCSI CD-ROM Drive, SCSI
CD-Writer, Pioneer DVD Drive, 8.4Gb Hard Drive (Drive C), 6.4Gb Hard Drive
(Drives D and E), 10Mbit Combo NIC, Soundblaster AWE64 Gold Sound Card, 32Mb
ATI Xpert 2000 Graphics Card (Rage128 Chipset), 3.5" Floppy, USB Modem and a
250Watt Athlon case. The computer is running Windows 98 SE.
The graphics card is borrowed as my Matrox G400 Dualhead card causes the
machine to crash regularly, usually corrupting the screen, the screen would
also corrupt spectularly when I tried to play Quake III, I tried installing
the most recent version of the Matrox drivers, but to no avail. The
installation of the above card seems to have cured this problem, but yet
another problem remains.
My Adaptec SCSI controller is shown as having a problem under Device
Manager, an exclamation mark is shown beside it in the listing, but no
device conflicts are shown, thus I cannot access my SCSI CD-ROM drives. I
noticed on startup that the Adaptec card and my USB modem are sharing the
same IRQ so I switched off USB support from the BIOS, but it made no
difference. I've also tried installing new Adaptec drivers, switching the
order of the PCI cards on the motherboard, changing the SCSI IDs of the
drives, switching the order of the drives on the SCSI chain and yes I have
checked that they are terminated properly. However, I have noticed that by
disconnecting the ribbon cable to the SCSI CD-Writer in the middle of the
SCSI chain no problems are listed in Device Manager and I get access to my
SCSI CD-ROM drive, although it seems to be very slow as it seems to read in
bursts, as if hunting the CD.
Does anyone out there have any other ideas....???
Robert Davis
I too had an Athlon 700, GA-71XE, G400, and an Adaptec SCSI controller.
After much ado I finally gave up, and after trying two other AMD-based mobos
(FIC and MSI) before that and also failing with them, I ended up with an
Abit BE6-II (440BX) and PIII-550E. Stability is now here, but it took
almost one month of experimenting and tweaking to get here.
My G400 did not work with the Gigabyte mobo, period. At that time I fitted
a TNT2-based card to make it work, later going back to the G400 with the
Intel chipset. My computer store said they have lots of trouble with G400's
and Athlon-based mobos.
Michael Köhler
> The PC is now comprised of a Gigabyte GA-7IXE motherboard with AMD chipset
,
> an Athlon 700 processor heatsink and fans, 2 x 64Mb PC100 DIMMs, 1 x 128Mb
> PC100 DIMM, Adaptec 2940UW SCSI Controller Card, SCSI CD-ROM Drive, SCSI
> CD-Writer, Pioneer DVD Drive, 8.4Gb Hard Drive (Drive C), 6.4Gb Hard Drive
> (Drives D and E), 10Mbit Combo NIC, Soundblaster AWE64 Gold Sound Card, 32
Mb
> ATI Xpert 2000 Graphics Card (Rage128 Chipset), 3.5" Floppy, USB Modem and
a
> 250Watt Athlon case. The computer is running Windows 98 SE.
Hi,
I got an ASUS K7M-Athlon 600, Matrox G400 up and running from the first day
I got the system and the system runs absolute stable. Your problem from what
I would guess is your power supply...."250 Watt" is simply to less for your
power consuming components. I have an 350 Watt Power supply and everything r
uns just fine.
Neil Hart
I needed to use the same solution. Still get some power problems, but then
my box is stuffed.
Another solutions is to try updating the VIA chipset (if that's what you've
got). Some latest Matrox drivers sometime have a problem with Q3A (on some
systems), but this doesn't sound like your issue.
Michael Köhler <ram...@med-rz.uni-sb.de> wrote in message
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J'arrow
Athlon 700, Matrox Duel Head G400 Millenium - Gigabyte GA-71XE, one
128MB PC100 DIMM, same SCSI - 8xDVD, Internal ZIP, 32/8/4 re-writer,
SB Live 128bit, 20 G-HD, internal modem, internal video capture/avi
encoder - external SCSI & USB keyboard - mouse : no problems !
Although I think that I was lucky as to the order I installed and
configured the system - started with just the Video Card and
Re-Writer, got the system up and added each bit in turn...the modem
didn't like the first PCI slot tho' - that was the only problem.
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 01:40:45 +0100, "Martin Campbell"
<mar...@camtech.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>I've just recently upgraded my main PC from a PII 400 to an Athlon 700 by
>changing the motherboard, processor, and case, unfortunately I've had a lot
>of teething problems.
>
>The PC is now comprised of a Gigabyte GA-7IXE motherboard with AMD chipset,
>an Athlon 700 processor heatsink and fans, 2 x 64Mb PC100 DIMMs, 1 x 128Mb
>PC100 DIMM, Adaptec 2940UW SCSI Controller Card, SCSI CD-ROM Drive, SCSI
>CD-Writer, Pioneer DVD Drive, 8.4Gb Hard Drive (Drive C), 6.4Gb Hard Drive
>(Drives D and E), 10Mbit Combo NIC, Soundblaster AWE64 Gold Sound Card, 32Mb
>ATI Xpert 2000 Graphics Card (Rage128 Chipset), 3.5" Floppy, USB Modem and a
>250Watt Athlon case. The computer is running Windows 98 SE.
>
Robert Davis
gave up on. In which PCI slot did you put your SCSI adapter? I put my
AHA-2930B in PCI1 and the ethernet in PCI2. I tried pulling everything
except video and couldn't get Win98SE to even load with most recent Matrox
drivers loaded.
"J'arrow" <j...@arrow.net> wrote in message
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Martin Campbell
seem to be a lot of issues with G400 and various Athlon boards ingeneral,
I've just moved it to another machine and it works just fine...I'm thing of
buying a Creative GeForce2 card for my Athlon system.
I've solved the SCSI problem, for some unknown reason Windows 98/SE didn't
install a full set of current ASPI drivers. I downloaded aspichk.exe and
aspi32.exe from the Adaptec site...aspichk.exe checks your aspi setup and
aspi32.exe installs the drivers. Once aspi32.exe was run and the machine
re-booted it worked perfectly.
Martin Campbell <mar...@camtech.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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Robert Davis
an FIC mobo I had for three days until it died. I went to Gigabyte because
I didn't like the funky, non-standard rear connector arrangement it has
(serial, USB, parallel, etc.). My computer store said to also forget
Athlon-based Tyan boards with the G400.
Oddly, someone here said his Gigabyte runs fine with his G400. I can't
imagine how he did it, as I tried everything.