G400Max & ASUS K7M

[grisen]

Can you make these products work together - 'cause if you can, please let me know how!!!

[Ghydda]

Hi

Like the dude say, what does it do? It works perfect on a FIC SD11.

Og velkommen til endnu en dansker. Vi er alt for få. Har i også møgvejr i Næstved?

Ghydda

[grisen]

The problem is when I restart my computer after installing the drivers, I only get strange looking blocks when windows starts to load the drivers. I've tried 5.15 (Shipping drivers), 5.25 &5.30, no difference. I use latest bios both for the mobo & the G400. I've tried with the AGP-driver on the CD & the latest from AMD (4.45).
I tried to remove everything but the grapics adapter & the SCSI controller (HDD's are scsi), and still no difference. After a clean Windows Install everything works oerfectly until the next time the computer is rebooted - then comes the strange blocks again...
Hope you can help me.

I øvrigt er vejret kedeligt i Næstved, hvor kommer du fra?

[Ghydda]

Do your G400 share IRQ with any other device? If so, try to resolve this, Matrox's drivers doesn't seem to behave very well on some systems when sharing IRQ's.

Does it help to disable Bus-mastering for the G400?

Is it possible for you to verify that the G400 is indeed in perfect order by testing it in another PC, say with a BX/ZX chipset?

Does it freeze when entering the GUI of Windows or is it still responding?

Ghydda

Jeg kommer fra egnen omkring Silkeborg, men bor i øjeblikket i Herning, da jeg går i skole her. Rart at se at der findes mennesker med sans for kvalitet (Athlon,SCSI,Asus,Matrox).

[space7]

HA!HA!HA!. OK. The same problem as my haaaa? try to force AGP X1 . Very beeg chance that it works. Not that I don't ting Is because of your motherboard it don tha same ting with my abit BP6. HA!HA!HAAAAAAAA!!!

[Zwisch]

It looks as if you do not have the motherboard's patches installed... you need :
- the 3 in 1 patch from VIA (should be on the CD)
- the patch for the AMD 751 nothbride (AGP patch) that you can find on AMD's web site under support and downloads.

With these all should be fine.

[Zwisch]

what's wrong? what does it do? should work fine since it uses the same chipsets as the FIC

[grisen]

This may sound a bit silly, but how do I disable busmastering and force agp 1x, when windows cannot load with the matrox-drivers?

[Buuri]

Start the Windows in Safe Mode,
remove the Matrox drivers,
restart Win normally,
install standard VGA adapter,
(reboot if recommended by Win),
install all the patches mentioned above,
reboot,
install the latest Matrox drivers again.

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[This message has been edited by Buuri (edited 02 November 1999).]

[TheMorg]

If it makes you feel better, I still have problems with my K7M/G400MAX combo. The first time my PC boots from cold, I get a pattern of (almost) horizontal cyan/black lines across my screen. BTW, my Windows background is plain cyan.

I also get Windows intermittently forcing me into 640x480x16 and complaining that my display settings are not compatible with my hardware. Another reboot usually gets rid of that.

OK you have installed the AGP miniport v4.45. You should also install the EIDE drivers (v1.22) unless you have disabled the EIDE controllers in the BIOS (you mentioned yo use SCSI).

You can get the latest versions of the other VIA drivers from their website. I think that does support the VIA southbridge of the K7M. Doesn't the FIC board use an AMD southbridge rather than the VIA one?

Have you changed the FSB from 100MHz or done any other tinkering in the BIOS?

Have you upgraded the BIOS? The latest version is K7M1006.bin I think.

Other than those suggestions, I'm at a loss. Sorry.

[Zwisch]

The FIC uses the exact same chipsets as the K7M

[kelin]

Not to sound STUPID, but, I had a WHOLE bunch of probs getting my NEW K600/G400Max/256Megs HSDRAM/Adaptec2940U2W/FIC...then Gigabyte...etc, running...finally found out(after I had one of the original FIC mobos that won't run HSDRAM...see the pc133memory site)...it was the POWER SUPPLY!!!
While I didn't have one of the "Approved PS's" I have a couple 300Watters and a couple 250's....NONE would work ok...I would get thru a 98 install, when it went for te Hardware PnP detection it would fatal error and "blue screen" me...then, when I finally got it running, I would get these wierd OpenGL errors in Unreal T...got the Gigabyte mobo...still probs...then I went for an "Approved Pw Supply"...ALL IZ FINE!!!
Don't know what ps you are running, but apparently, it makes a BIG DEAL with the K7s...
Good Luck.
Kelin
Pri System (win 98)
K7 600 on GA-71X
256 Megs Enhanced HSDRAM PC133
Max G400
Adaptec 2940U2W
Quantum atlas 10K 9.1G
IBM Ultrastar Uw
Aureal Super Quad
3Com NIC for Cable Modem
Ls-120

Sec Sys (98, NT, and Linux)
P3 450 on Soyo BA6 +III
128Megs PC100
TNT
2 V2s in SLI
2 UDMA/33 HDs
Creative Ensonic
etc...

[Ghydda]

Actually, to my knowledge, the VIA3in1 patch doesn't do any good (nor any harm, for that matter), couz it does NOT have support for the AMD/VIA chipset. Not the version I got on my CD, anyway.

Ghydda