p2b & new USB 2.0 PCI card conflict

[ahjiii]

Mb: p2b
BIOS: 1012
O/S Win XP Pro

Installed SoHoUSB 2.0 Hi-Speed PCI card. First boot indicated "check
sum errors" and stopped. Rebooting continued to XP blue welcome screen
and froze. Rebooting several times finally got me on-line and system
clock had been knocked back to 1997. Installed drivers from disc and
mid install system rebooted with disk checks of all physical and
virtual drives. Drive C listed "serious system errors" in system
32\wbam\repository\FS\objects.map and index map.

After finally getting on-line again Hardware showed a second Universal
Serial Bus Controllers heading with unknown device listed. Update
drivers and separate attempts to find hardware and install drivers
repeated above spontaneous reboots, disk scans, errors, et al. I've
removed the card and all seems well except I still need more and
faster USB connections.

The Owner's Manual on the driver disc offers no trouble shooting
advice and the box says the card is suitable for "any desktop computer
with a free PCI slot".

Is this a BIOS upgrade issue? I have 1014 b3 but have never found a
listing of what it resolves so have not installed it since I didn't
want to fix something that wasn't broken.

Suggestions appreciated.

 

[Jim in Canada]

If you are willing to risk the whole episode happening again, you could try
it in a different PCI slot and see if it will be happy there. Maybe try to
install it all by itself first with all the other PCIs empty. Then if it
works, add the other cards one at a time untill the errors happen again.
Could be a conflict with another card on a shared resource...

Jim

 

[P2B]

Mb: p2b
BIOS: 1012
O/S Win XP Pro

Installed SoHoUSB 2.0 Hi-Speed PCI card. First boot indicated "check
sum errors" and stopped. Rebooting continued to XP blue welcome screen
and froze. Rebooting several times finally got me on-line and system
clock had been knocked back to 1997.

Interesting. The only time I've seen XP do exactly that on a P2B was
when I changed video cards on my testbed - same chipset, different
manufacturer. Suggests it could be a driver issue - do you have the latest?

Installed drivers from disc and

mid install system rebooted with disk checks of all physical and
virtual drives. Drive C listed "serious system errors" in system
32\wbam\repository\FS\objects.map and index map.

After finally getting on-line again Hardware showed a second Universal
Serial Bus Controllers heading with unknown device listed. Update
drivers and separate attempts to find hardware and install drivers
repeated above spontaneous reboots, disk scans, errors, et al. I've
removed the card and all seems well except I still need more and
faster USB connections.

The Owner's Manual on the driver disc offers no trouble shooting
advice and the box says the card is suitable for "any desktop computer
with a free PCI slot".

Is this a BIOS upgrade issue? I have 1014 b3 but have never found a
listing of what it resolves so have not installed it since I didn't
want to fix something that wasn't broken.

I doubt it - there are no BIOS fixes potentially applicable to your
problem since 1012 AFAIK. OTOH, there's no reason not to upgrade to
1014b3 - it's as stable as your current version, and adds support for
larger disks, faster processors, and other minor improvements.

Suggestions appreciated.

The first thing I would try is disabling the USB IRQ on the PNP & PCI
Setup page in the BIOS, then trying installing the card again - in a
different PCI slot is probably a good idea as Jim suggested. Of course,
that will disable the onboard USB ports, which may be unacceptable - but
if you can successfully install the new ports, you could try re-enabling
the onboard ports.

Another choice is to give in and get a Belkin dual USB 2.0 PCI card -
they are known to work on the P2B:

http://www.bjorn3d.com/_preview.php?articleID=59

HTH

P2B

 

[ahjiii]

Gentlemen:
Sincere thanks for your help. A simple change of PCI slot made the
formerly petulant card happy. XP had the necessary drivers on board
and installed them automatically as I had originally anticipated it
would. I feel a bit foolish being stumped by such a simple and obvious
resolution and hopefully I've learned something in the process.

There are some problems with my new P4 I'm building and I'm finding
answers to those as others in here post similar situations and receive
suggestions. My gratitude goes to all of you. It is vital and
reassuring to have such an extensive and capable collective base of
knowledge available for the asking.