Bus-mastering???

[Vin18]

Hi, just wanted to know what exactly busmastering does......I have a PIII 450 with 256MB and a SBLIVE! and a Matrox G400 DH 32 MB....When I install win98 for the first time, and then the g400, the tech demo runs perfect....but when i install my sblive! retail, the tech demo just doesnt run anymore.......so i thought: the drivers, or bios....but i tried everything, so didnt knew what to do.

But today i disabled bus-master in the display properties, and what do u know?? the tech demo runs!!! but not perfect, not smoothly....

TELL ME WHAT TO DO, PLS!!!!!!!

[DuRaNgO]

system specs please

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PIII-500mhz @ 620!
Abit BE6 mobo
128mb pc-100
Mill G400(YAHOO!!!) 32mb @ 120%)
PD 5.30
Maxtor 13.2 gb Uata66 hdd
SB Live!
Winblows 98se
DX7
THREE BIG FANS, six little ones and a case that sounds like a turbine engine...doh!

[Vin18]

Okay:

PIII 450
256 MB Ram
G400 DH 32 MB
SBlive! Retail
P3B-F Asus motherboard

[Skynet8]

You probably have the G400/SBLive combo problem (so do I!). Search the Hardware forum for posts related to this problem, and try all the fixes posted. However, there is no fool-proof solution; some fixes work for some people, some don't. None of them work for me. But, just try. Make sure you've the latest drivers, that the G400 and SBLive don't share the same IRQ, the SBLive should be more than 1 PCI slot away from the G400, fiddle with the AGP aperture in the BIOS. Try these.

[Vin18]

okay, thnxs, ill try