In <VA.0000140c.00242caf@virgin.net>, B.Rumary wrote:
> I am having similar problems with my AMD 1Gb system. It have a Gigabyte
> GA-7ZXR board and a ATI All-in-Wonder Pro graphics card. I don't get trouble
> with the monitor powering down, but I had frequent problems with the system
> freezing up and having to be re-booted. Also the DVD drive would not work on
> DVDs, only CDs. If you put a DVD in it would start the player prog and then
> freeze.
>
> I discovered that if I turned the graphics card performance right down to the
> minimum (that is with no acceleration), the freeze-ups stopped, although
> screen up-dates were much slower. So obviously it is some sort of conflict
> involving the graphics card.
>
> However even when graphics acceleration is turned down, the DVD drive will
> still not play DVDs. The player starts, but then says it can't play as system
> performance is too low or there is not a proper card installed. This message
> still comes as you turn up the performance step by step, until it reaches
> full, when the freezing starts again! Anyone any ideas on how to cure this?
>
> I have looked at System Manager and no conflicts are shown, but the ATI card
> seems to be sharing IRQ 11 with the internal modem.
>
Further to my earlier posting about the problems mentioned above, my computer
finally went spectacularly wrong! First I noticed that the time display was
running slow, loosing several minutes an hour. Then last night everything went
crazy. I turned the machine off and later turned it back on. The time shown was
well out - October 2000 - and it couldn't find the slave drive HDD on the
primary IDE channel. When set to auto it could find this second HDD, but came
up
with the wrong figures and then gave fault warnings. When it had finished the
boot up the second HDD drive was not there.
This morning I re-fitted the old motherboard into the machine and everything
works OK, just slower. No freeze-ups, even at maximum graphics performance
settings; the second HDD was recognised and accessible again; and the ATI
video
player utility played DVDs, although rather jerkily. So it looks as if this
problem may have been a dodgy Gigabyte motherboard or Athlon CPU.
Has anyone heard of problems with Gigabyte MBs or AMD CPUs when working with
ATI
All-in-Wonder graphics cards? Could the ATI board have damaged the MB? I should
point out that the MB I put back was also a Gigabyte, but it was a Pentium III
GA-BX2000.
Brian Rumary, England
