Amd K7 Cpu with Matrox G400

[Jochen Gundlach]

Hi All,
All my problems are over.
Got my motherboard replaced and all problems are over.
I went through all the pains and agony by replacing ram,P/S etc.
My Problem was I could use the G400 card under normal use, but when changing to 3D it would run for a while the fall through to the desktop.
This I picked up even when I used a Vodoo 3000 card. I the beginning the Vodoo 3000 was ok,as time went on the Vodoo 3000 card suffert the same faith.
My motherboard is a MS-6167.
Video cards use IRQ 5.

Regards
PS. I was running 3DMax99 for 3.5 Hours and no crash what so ever.

Jochen

[Vlip]

It's known that you shouldn't put your vid card on a smaller IRQ than 9. They don't like it.

Try to change the IRQ and inform us about the result.

Vlip



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[Goc]

Vlip...

if his problems are gone now and everything is OK there is no need to change the IRQ...

Keep ir running as it is now if all is well

[Jochen Gundlach]

Hi All,
The IRQ resources of this MB is done via my MB Bios.
I have no control over it.
My sound card use IRQ 11 and USB use IRQ 10.
There is no PCI IRQ which I can set manualy.
Even if I take my sound out then the IRQ are re-shuffled to other IRQ's. Then when I install my sound card again it grabs IRQ11.

I was running Quake II demo in 32 bit mode for 2hours and no crashes.

Regards


Jochen Gundlach
PS This is the first MB I have come across when Switching Mains on it semi-powers up for approx. 1.5 sec, then I have to use the Power-On Button to switch on.

[Nuno]

Jochen: I can´t assign irq´s manually with my gigabyte 7IX also, and here is what I´ve done to get that G400 out of IRQ 5 (I was not having any problem, but you never know...)

My sb live is in the 4th pci slot counting from the agp slot. In the bios, I set resourses controled by auto (default) to manual and assigned IRQ4 and 5 to Legacy ISA and all the others to PCI-pnp. And presto, G400 on IRQ9, live! on 11, sb live emulation on 5. Not even one IRQ sharing.

Even if the mobo hasn´t the option to assign a IRQ to a pci slot, it should at least have the option I mentioned. It´s a matter of trial and error. Athlon mobo´s seem to have the strange behaviour of assigning IRQ5 to the video card. But with a little fiddling you can get it out from there.

[DentyCracker]

Like Nuno said. Did something like that with MS 6167 and G400 (Marvel) and SB Live! Platinum

[Greebe]

It's done that on all five SlotA MB's currently out. It's fine just leave it where it is.

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[Nuno]

Actually I was more trying to get Sb16 emulation to irq5 than to get that G400 out of there It´s hard to set up Blood and Duke Nuken sound config to a Sound Blaster in irq9... this was an unheard thing those days