Trouble with PCI and win2k?

[Silent-IQ 0]

OK, i just installed a clean win2k install and had to do that with out any PCI card inserted on my mobo, just my GF AGP card.

Install worked superb and i updated win2k with windows update. But when i insert one PCI card onto my mobo, win2k want start anymore, it locks at startup. No matter what PCI card it is, or which PCI slot i have it on, as soon there is any PCI card present i cant start win2k nor install win2k (when installing win2k locks half way trough plug&pray detection, i think its when display is about to detect)

I even tried with minimal settings in bios and safe settings in bios with everything off. I even tried with one cpu.

Anyone know a solution to this problem?

Thanks, Silent.

 

Specs:

 

Tyan Tiger 133

Dual P3 600Mhz/133Mhz

3D Prophet GeForce 256

256MB PC133

IBM ATA66 7200RPM 27,3Gb HD

[euankirkhope 0]

Ha ha, Plug&pray, thats funny

 

OK, well we have to take into consideration your geforce It will take up an IRQ, which is shared with PCI slot 1 (its direct neighbour). The next slot probably shares with your IDE controller. Also disable UDMA in bios (until the system is 100%) it is known to cause problems during install.

The last slot probably shares with an ISA slot.

 

So, best bets is to look for a bios update (which mentions ACPI). But for now, goto system properties and select computer, and update the driver, select Standard PC, and reboot. Or you can press F6 during install (blue stage).

 

There's probably 1 million other possibilities but the above is most likely.

 

Also if you have an award bios, make sure you have a versio that doesn't have the "big disk" error, unlikely, but possible.

 

Also make sure you have installed the via chipset patch! www.viatech.com/drivers this one is very very important!

 

Also if you have installed patches, check you have not installed the tiger 100 patches, remember one is an intel BX, the other via apollo Pro 133.

 

I found this bios update that looks like its just for you

 

TYAN S1834 Tiger 133 Rev. 1.03c

Changes in this BIOS :

Improve PCI and AGP performance

 

get it @ http://www.tyan.com/support/html/b_tg_133.html

[euankirkhope 0]

The bill is in the post

[Silent-IQ 0]

Thanx for the help, i didnt manage to test this before, or search for the bios update..hehe..updateing the bios made thing much worse so i had to start from the beginning. Well i still have the same problem...well acculy i dont..i know where the problem is..its AGP to PCI communication...it like agp doesnt like pci and vice versa...i can tell you that tyan has the most ****ed bios ever...70% of settings are totaly unkown to me..never seen them in any bios before...so after 10 hours of changing the setting and testing...i thik i came over something called AGP drive mode or something...well setting this from auto to manual and then chosing BB made win2k start with one Voodoo3 PCI and Geforce 256 AGP. thats a big step forward for me now...all i have to do now is go even furder...i will start with putting my sound card on the scene..hehe...

thanks for the help once more....

 

/Silent

[Silent-IQ 0]

Well, here i go again.

I think that the problem is in the geforce card and agp....still didnt get nowere...i can boot win2k with my voodoo3 only if the geforce is desabled in windows....should i flash the bios on the gefroce with nvidias?