euankirkhope 0 Posted December 30, 1999 After a few (under-exageration) installations of the beta win2k i have a few findings: Viatech mvp3's bios isn't ACPI friendly, the result is all PCI devices on the same IRQ, the com port and lpt bios routings have been destroyed. Now the bios halts with a "i/o port conflict 3f8 2f8 ... The only combination of com ports that don't conflict is 2e8 (com 4)and 3bc (lpt 3) with the second port disabled. (This bug is fixed in a new beta bios JE4322 for my fic va503+ motherboard, which doesn't fix it). However the diabled com port still appears (along with the disabled floppy drive, i have a ls120. Although i haven't tried the com port as there are no drivers for my yamaha synth thats connected to it. As we go on... my stb velocity 4400 each time shows a blank screen after installing win2k rcX. Whereas my Ati ragepro2x works 99%. (haven't tried DX7 and probably won't, can't tempt fate) All though the blank screen is understandable when the card has to fight over 1 irq with the other cards, it still does it when it has its own irq (cards removed), and when win2k is installed with acpi disabled, and the resources are evidently stable. I have tried many versions of the win2k drivers, and none appear to work with RC2, whereas 1 or 2 worked with beta 3. Thus it'll have to be an NT4 driver. Basically what i'm saying is some people will never have a system that works 100%, and being in the non intel socket 7 club, i expect to see the same problems in the final release and patches turning up in a couple of years. ps although win2k is a mightly fine operating system, the hardware i have is a pile of !£!". Share this post Link to post
