Problem with New Board/Chip upgrade & reinstalling my old Fast capture Board.
I have today upgraded my existing tower system, installing an ABIT AT7-MAX2 Board, with an Athlone 2400hz processor. 512 RAM, running under 98SE.
In general the upgrade has been extremely smooth, until I attempted to reinstall my Fast Analogue capture card Version 1.6, which had previously been operating very successfully in my old setup (600hz. Athlone on a Microtech Board).
Now, from experience the Fast Capture board has always been somewhat of a ‘rogue’ item to install, & even recently under the old system I would have to do a hard reboot occasionally in order to get the darned thing to properly install. However, with this new system as detailed above I seem to have a major conflict problem. If I put more than one PCI card into the system, upon boot up the Fast Capture card simply locks the entire windows setup about ¾ into the screen set up mode. If I try installing the card into other available PCI slots: same result. If I take out all of the other PCI cards (& there is only one; the modem) then the boot up sequence detects the card, tells me that a reboot is needed, probably due to ‘conflict’, if I then ‘agree’ to reboot, again the entire system locks solid, & I then need to undertake a power down. So, in short, I can get the card recognized for the installation of drivers, but not properly installed.
The IRQ for the Fast card has always been fixed at 10: no other card in the system is using the 10 IRQ. (The modem is on 11)
I do need to keep the analogue Fast Capture card for the transfer of certain analogue material to file in the future, & one of my reasons for upgrading was to install a new board, inclusive of two built in fire wire ports for digital work, thus by this system I should be able to process both analogue & digital.
Can anyone advise how I am likely to be able to get the Fast card properly installed upon this new Board, I have feeling that the likely conflict is possibly due to the PCI Steering calling the 10 IRQ, but my tech. no-how in this area is very limited?
Any assistance would be most gratefully received.
Ragamuffin Brian.
Brian -
I haven't had much experience with Athalon chips, so I can't speak to that. My experience has been with Pentiums, but everything I have seen usually ends up coming back to IRQ settings.
Some suggestions to try, if you can:
1.) Do you need Com ports? If not, disable them. This will free up two IRQ's that can be used elsewhere by the system.
2.) Do you need USB ports? If not, disable these as well.
3.) PCI steering should not be a problem. This usually occurs with all IRQ's
4.) If you have the ability to map the PCI slots with the BIOS (which you might on a more recent system), you can try assigning specific IRQ's to specific PCI slots. This can help solve some problems.
Hope these help!
Brian -
One other thing that I forgot to mention. I have tried to install a AV Master on an ABIT VH6 motherboard and was completely stumped because I could not get the thing to work. I experienced lock-up from the first windows logon screen. There were a number of other variables that could have created this, but it may also be the ABIT motherboard. I do not know if anyone else can confirm this, but it is something to keep in mind if nothing else works.