Need Expert Help, Please :)

[Kate kate]

[snip great post...]

In terms of picking power supplies, you realize that a
"requires the +12v rail running min 22A (amps)" is pure
baloney. This kind of advice from the manufacturer, is almost
as bad as saying "only works with a 600W supply". You do a
calculation of the loads in the system, to come up with a
minimum requirement for a power supply. The manufacturer may
be assuming a different processor is being used, than the one
you bought.

Yeah, that's of course the best way to go about it.

Thanks for that very informative post, Paul. It explains a lot and I'm
locking it!

Kate

 

[kate]

you could try turning off apic
does your bios have a switches for MS routing tables?

I did try turning off APIC. Didn't make a diff.

And yes, it does have a setting for MS routing tables, but I'm not
familiar with this setting and the manual didn't explain, so I didn't
mess with it.

I just printed out all the resources my 7950 is using with Fresh
Diagnose. Now I'm going to install my old video card and the SB card,
boot back up and print out all the resources the SB uses.

Hopefully from there I can tweak the CMOS or set a jumper on the SB card
or do something to change the resources.

Btw, the MSI mobo has a LED diagnostic port, and when the system hangs
at POST it hangs right after the video card is initialized (assuming the
SB is also installed). I remember from the old days SB needed to be
loaded before anything else, and I always had to put a line in
config.sys/autoexec.bat to make sure SB got in the front of the line.

Anyway, I got tired last night but am determined to get this working
today!

 

[Rod Speed]

Re: XION PSU

I did look in CMOS but I was mainly referring to a tool MSI gives for
the mobo I have which is just a desktop (sys tray) app that monitors
voltage and temp. I confess I have no idea how accurate it is.

Just as bad since its using the same hardware to measure the voltages.

It also alerts you if there's a problem.

Sure, that's the big advantage with the motherboard measurement,
you can monitor it in the background and alert if it sags etc.

Oh good! You have XIONs too?

Nar, that was a general comment about the motherboard measurement.

 

[Guest]

Okay, I isolated the problemo. After printing out the resources the 7950
uses, I uninstalled it, reinstalled the 6200 and SoundBlaster and at a
glance saw the hangup. The 7950 and SB both use IRQ 18.

Now. In my CMOS setup if I manually reserve IRQs, I only have the choice
to do that for IRQs 1-15.

So I either have to find a way to get the FX to use a different IRQ, or
the SB to use a different one.

I'm going to go read the XFX .pdf manual.

Btw, for anyone thinking of getting a XFX 7950GT, the CD with the
drivers causes a BSOD, at least on my system. If I cruise the CD with a
browser and manually run the setup from the /DRIVERS directory, the
system hangs half-way through installing the drivers. The only way I can
get drivers to load is to use the MS Wizard and tell it to look at the
CD in the /drivers directory. I haven't even gotten to see if anything
else on the CD will load, but it's quite annoying when you pay $300 for
a video card and the CD treats you to BSOD.

P.S. If anyone else knows how to manipulate these higher IRQs normally
assigned by the system, I'll be checking back... Hopefully the XFX will
allow manual manipulation of IRQ... or maybe a Creative Labs genuis will
know how to get the SB to use a different IRQ.

 

[kate]

Oh man alive... when I think of all the grief I went through...! ;-D

My mobo has a yellow PCIe, then three white PCI slots, and a bright
orange PCI. The bright orange one was stuck in my head as a dedicated
communications port slot (says so in the manual and I'd remembered that
from when I built the box 2 yrs ago, which is why my modem card was in
there for those occasional faxes I'd send from the desktop). Whenever I
moved the SB card to another PCI slot (which I've done for 2 weeks off
and on and off agan), I'd move it between the three open white slots. In
my mind (without thinking about it) the orange one was 'dedicated.'

I got fed up awhile ago and was laying down to take a nap (<g>), when it
hit me that at some point in the night (yes, in my sleep), I'd realized
the orange PCI slot doesn't have to have that modem card in it. Just
because it's a dedicated communications slot, doesn't mean other PCI
devices can't go there. IT is PCI 1 where the SB should go.

I jumped up off the bed, ripped out the modem card, stuck the SB in the
slot and....

....

Let's just say it's time for a cigar and a drink. <G>

Hallefrigginlujah!

 

[VanShania]

I used the Live! card for a few years and found it only worked best with the
driver that XP installed. I didn't install anything from Creative except to
manually install their MP3 player off their disk. I would say get the Audigy
2 ZS or the X-fi and spare yourself any more headaches. And get the retail
versions, not the OEMs( or "value" versions).

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