Asus A7A266 IDE Corruption issues please hlp?

[Guest]

I recenty got me a A7a266 mobo, t-bird 1.4 and 256MB DDR ram, i seem to be running into some issues..

OS = win98se
2 x SCSI on Adapactec 2940
2 x IDE HDD 18,40GB
2 x IDE CD-ROM, Ricoh CDRW, 50xCDR

for some reason there appears to be read errors on my IDE devices.. I can see the volume label of the cd and all it's contents, but as soon as I start the autorun... It causes a illegal exception.

and also copying data from the IDE across to the SCSI... It read a couple of megs then givs me read errors... The drives worked fine with my P3-933 ?? np.

Also when win98 reboots my system hangs on the POST after detecting the IDE devices.. When I go into the BIOS and set the UDMA to disable on the drives.. it seems to work a little better.. But still causes problems when reading lots of data.

This is really not good.. I can't understant this.. I'm going to ugrade the bios tonight to see of there's any imprpvement.

Does anyone know where I can get drivers for the IDE ? or updated drivers for the ALiMagik1 chipset ? maybe win98se doesn't have the right drivers.

All IRQ seems to be no-clashing..

thnkx
WaY

 

[Guest]

2 possibilities:
1) PSU. You've got 4 HD, and a watty processor. I hope that's at least a 350W supply you're running....

2) Cruddy VIA drivers. I've been holding off upgrading my old MPV3/K6-2 system, as it only started working properly once Win98 came out, with integrated MPV3 support. The VIA drivers I had at the time for Win95OSR2 were buggy in the extreme. I ended up uninstalling them and running with the default (slow) Windows driver. Try disabling DMA everywhere.

 

[Crashman]

What BIOS revision? There were severe problems with bios revisions earlier than the 1.004. The 1.004 seems to have solved most issues.

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[Guest]

hyundai DDR SDRAM not happy with my A7A, So i Got the Micron 256 PC2100 and this fixed the problem...

 

[Guest]

hyundai DDR SDRAM not happy with my A7A, So i Got the Micron 256 PC2100 and this fixed the problem...

 

[Crashman]

Your the second A7A guy in here that said his cheap DDR would not work, that's why I always recommend Crucial. Glad the third party Micron solved your problem. Crucial uses Micron as well, as they are owned by Micron.

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