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10-29-2000, 06:34 PM
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I picked up an FIC VA-503+ Socket 7 board as a replacement for an epox that went bad. On boot-up it wouldn't post when jumpered to 450 (amd k6-2), but it would post when Ilowered it to 400. I thot it just needed a bios flash to update things. I found the latest update and flashed the bios, and it still wouldn't post over 400, but it would recognize the cpu as a 450 now. Well, I didn't look at things like I should have and this was an older revision of the board - it only accepts up to 400. So I re-flashed the bios with the latest update that my older board revision would handle (no i didn't save the old bios), but it still sees the cpu as a 450 at post. It has always posted just fine when set to 400.
I did a fresh windows install, but I can't load anything but the video card. When I try to install a network card, it reboots itself before it finishes the install. It wants to put everything on the same irq - 11. I've tried different slots and bios settings. Windows won't let me change the irq manually. I tried pnp OS yes and no, auto and manual irq config, etc... What I'm wondering, is this a bad board - or did my screw-up on the bios flash mess things up ?
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10-29-2000, 06:44 PM
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Turn off ACPI in the bios. Reinstall Windows from scratch.
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10-29-2000, 07:23 PM
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Good call.....
Some of the newer boards put ACPI to good use, but alot of older boards like to cough and sputter with this enabled. glc's response should straighten your problem out.
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10-29-2000, 07:45 PM
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With a little more digging through the FIC site, I found some drivers that I needed to install that fixed my irq problem. I installed the drivers off of the cd that came with the board, but that wasn't enough I guess.
Something else that popped up tho - now when I complete the post before it verifies the DMI pool data, I get this message: !!!!! Trend ChipAwayVirus On Guard !!!!!! Now Detecting Boot Sector Type Virus... ChipAwayVirus BIOS Version 1.62 What's that ? Norton isn't picking up anything... |
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10-29-2000, 07:50 PM
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Turn off boot sector virus detection in the BIOS. If Norton is up to date and says it's clean, it is.
Did your hard drive ever have an overlay (EZ-Bios or Disk Manager) on it? To make sure it's clean, you can boot with a known clean system floppy and type fdisk /mbr |
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10-29-2000, 08:57 PM
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no overlays, it's just a plain ol formatted drive.
i turned off the bios virus scan and fdisked the mbr....everything looks ok thanks for the help...been one of those days where i learned more than i accomplished |
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