I wish my return to this forum was for a much happier reason….but when this problem reared its ugly head, I knew exactly where to go to find help. I am building a system using an AMD 950 Tbird...and I am running into some serious conflicts with a VIA KT133 motherboard. The board I am using is a Gigabyte GA-7ZXR ( rev. 1.0 ). This board supports ATA100 using an onboard Promise chipset. The other hardware in my system is as follows:
TDK VeloCD 12*10*32 cdrw
WD600BBRTL 60GB 7200rpm ATA100
Soundblaster LIVE Value
Creative Labs Annihilator Pro ( GF DDR )
3Com 3C905 NIC
NEC Floppy
Inwin Case w/ 300W power supply
256MB PC133
:Using Win2000 professional
I have tried the following:
Clean install of Win2000...
Promise Ultra 100 chipset now recognizes hard drive...
Newest Promise chipset driver(v.1.60 build 33 )
Newest "supported" BIOS for motherboard (7zxr.f6)
Newest supported SB Live drivers
Newest supported Detonator video drivers ( 12.41 det 3 )
Newest VIA 4-in-1 drivers ( 4.32 )
The problem here is a painfully slow transfer rate….in device manager, the transfer mode is shown as N/A…I suspect it is PIO since it is so slow ( we’re talking a good 5min to load W2K with a 950MHz processor and 256MB! )
SiSoftSandra does not even see a hard drive in the “system summary” screen….and the drive test will lock up and not respond after about 2 min.
The strange thing here is that the Promise Ultra 100 BIOS recognizes the drive as UDMA5 ( the fastest ) and sees the drive…
With this specific board, you have four slots…the first two ( prim and sec ) are ATA66….the next two slots ( red ) are RAID/ATA100. You can enable/disable the Promise chipset with a jumper..and you select whether you want RAID or ATA100 with another jumper.
I have tried running the system without the NIC and the sound card…with no luck…I am now trying a brand new install of Win2000 without these devices installed…who knows….it could work..
Well, I think that covers everything…thank you for your time….I hope someone can drum up a fix soon!
TDK VeloCD 12*10*32 cdrw
WD600BBRTL 60GB 7200rpm ATA100
Soundblaster LIVE Value
Creative Labs Annihilator Pro ( GF DDR )
3Com 3C905 NIC
NEC Floppy
Inwin Case w/ 300W power supply
256MB PC133
:Using Win2000 professional
I have tried the following:
Clean install of Win2000...
Promise Ultra 100 chipset now recognizes hard drive...
Newest Promise chipset driver(v.1.60 build 33 )
Newest "supported" BIOS for motherboard (7zxr.f6)
Newest supported SB Live drivers
Newest supported Detonator video drivers ( 12.41 det 3 )
Newest VIA 4-in-1 drivers ( 4.32 )
The problem here is a painfully slow transfer rate….in device manager, the transfer mode is shown as N/A…I suspect it is PIO since it is so slow ( we’re talking a good 5min to load W2K with a 950MHz processor and 256MB! )
SiSoftSandra does not even see a hard drive in the “system summary” screen….and the drive test will lock up and not respond after about 2 min.
The strange thing here is that the Promise Ultra 100 BIOS recognizes the drive as UDMA5 ( the fastest ) and sees the drive…
With this specific board, you have four slots…the first two ( prim and sec ) are ATA66….the next two slots ( red ) are RAID/ATA100. You can enable/disable the Promise chipset with a jumper..and you select whether you want RAID or ATA100 with another jumper.
I have tried running the system without the NIC and the sound card…with no luck…I am now trying a brand new install of Win2000 without these devices installed…who knows….it could work..
Well, I think that covers everything…thank you for your time….I hope someone can drum up a fix soon!
