arcus 0 Posted June 30, 2000 I have a geforce that seems to share with the onboard nic and crash it about every 7 seconds.. tyans at a loss creative says move the irq ami says huh? and tweakbios barely recognizes anything in the system suggestions? Share this post Link to post
Ronin 0 Posted June 30, 2000 Here is what worked for me. A. Make sure you have PNP OS enabled in the bios and that you are not forcing any IRQ in the Bios, and that you have the Power Management set to ACPI in the Bios. 1.Disable the onbaord NIC by using the jumper. 2. Do a clean install of W2K, install the drivers for your Geforce card. 3. Shutdown the computer and remove the jumper. 4. Restart W2K and let it find and install the drivers for the onboard NIC card, I'm not using the Tyan drivers. If you do the above everything should work just fine. It worked for me and I have no problems at all. You may notice if you go into contol panel and look at the IRQ settings that W2K has wierd IRQ's for your hardware. Don't worry it's just W2K way of IRQ sharing. Just leave everything alone and you should be fine. E-mail me if you need anymore help. ... ------------------ My System: Dual Intel 850's Tyan Thunder 2400 MB 512 Megs Ram Adaptec 39160 Ultra 160 1 - 18 Gig Cheetah - U160 2 - 18 Gig Cheetah U2W SB Live Platinum Plextor 12/4/32 - Burner Plextor 40x UW CD-Rom 10x Sony DVD Drive Hercules Geforce 2 64meg Viewsonic PF815 22" Monitor Share this post Link to post
arcus 0 Posted July 1, 2000 no luck the board is dangerously flawed at the bios level..tyans going to issue an emergency bios post within the next 72.. (or so they said) until then..be careful about crashes with the game port..current bios doesn't disable it..or the ac97 completely the creative geforce is hellishly sensitive to shared irq..so thats only half tyans fault but the fastrak 66 cards run dead into the same scsi bios drop out for the onboard scsi that the thunderbolt had earler this year.. talk about shipping betaware no irq steering .no override.. and even a legacy problem they already fixed on their last flagship board.. pity but I will give it this pretty doorstop but on the plus side tech6 down at tyan does know his **** on at least some of it..primarily the fastrak and he got some motion going we'll see.. let me know how it goes for you Share this post Link to post
Ronin 0 Posted July 1, 2000 Sorry to hear that, but everything is working fine for me. I using the computer like mad *****. I don't use the onboard sound either or Scsi. My config is a lot different than yours, I guess that's why I'm not having any problems. Sorry I could not help ya, ... Share this post Link to post
