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- Jan 22, 2003
I really want to try the AMD platform, so I got some parts (with some existing ones) and put together the following:
T-Bred A 2000+
K7S5A Pro
512MB PC2700 RAM
MSI GeForce4 Ti4200
Adaptec 29160 SCSI controller
2x Quantum Atlas V 18GB HDs
3com 3C590 PCI combo card (yeah, I am still using coax
)
Yamaha 8824S writer
Old 4x SCSI CD-ROM
Note: I haven't even tried OCing yet, just turning the RAM timings down a bit... The other notable things that I did to the BIOS settings are disabling the IDE controllers, the IRQ to PCI VGA setting, and turn on APIC.
I installed Win98 and then Win2K. Win98 boots fine with no problems. For Win2K I ran into an interesting "issue", after I choose to boot Win2K in the menu, the system "pauses" for 65 seconds before moving on to the text mode "Starting Windows..." screen. At first I thought it was a hang and I hit reset until at one time I left it there and it booted fine after that pause. During that stage I don't think it is even trying to load any drivers. What could be happening?
Also, another interesting thing with coming out of hibernation. Because of this boot up problem I tried to use hibernate to boot quicker. However, if I hibernate and leave the machine off long enough (a few hours), the first time when it tries to resume it rebooted itself before getting to the "Resuming Windows..." screen. Then I am asked whether to discard the memory file and restart or continue. When I choose continue it resumes fine. Again, I wonder why?
Have tried 2 ECS official BIOSes and 1 Cheepo and 1 Honey X and they all exhibit the same things. While there has been no stability problems (no blue screens and hangups with Prime95 and 3DMark2001), these kinds of "issues" are quite annoying.
I really want to get an AMD platform running successfully, would anyone please shed some wisdom here so that I can convince others that AMD platform is as good as you know who?
Thanks in advance.
T-Bred A 2000+
K7S5A Pro
512MB PC2700 RAM
MSI GeForce4 Ti4200
Adaptec 29160 SCSI controller
2x Quantum Atlas V 18GB HDs
3com 3C590 PCI combo card (yeah, I am still using coax
)Yamaha 8824S writer
Old 4x SCSI CD-ROM
Note: I haven't even tried OCing yet, just turning the RAM timings down a bit... The other notable things that I did to the BIOS settings are disabling the IDE controllers, the IRQ to PCI VGA setting, and turn on APIC.
I installed Win98 and then Win2K. Win98 boots fine with no problems. For Win2K I ran into an interesting "issue", after I choose to boot Win2K in the menu, the system "pauses" for 65 seconds before moving on to the text mode "Starting Windows..." screen. At first I thought it was a hang and I hit reset until at one time I left it there and it booted fine after that pause. During that stage I don't think it is even trying to load any drivers. What could be happening?
Also, another interesting thing with coming out of hibernation. Because of this boot up problem I tried to use hibernate to boot quicker. However, if I hibernate and leave the machine off long enough (a few hours), the first time when it tries to resume it rebooted itself before getting to the "Resuming Windows..." screen. Then I am asked whether to discard the memory file and restart or continue. When I choose continue it resumes fine. Again, I wonder why?
Have tried 2 ECS official BIOSes and 1 Cheepo and 1 Honey X and they all exhibit the same things. While there has been no stability problems (no blue screens and hangups with Prime95 and 3DMark2001), these kinds of "issues" are quite annoying.
I really want to get an AMD platform running successfully, would anyone please shed some wisdom here so that I can convince others that AMD platform is as good as you know who?
Thanks in advance.
