re: Windows 2000 Pro Wierdness
Wednesday, October 5, 2005 at 10:57 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6934 messages posted)
I figured as much! I dumped an Asus A7M-266 (third board under warranty, memory
controller went bad on all of them) and the Palomino 1.2 and 2100 gig processors
about two years ago now. Even with updates to the drivers and one from MS concerning
AMD processors, it would corrupt the drive on shutdown and power off. Everything
was changed at least once (HD video, PS everything) and it never did work. Same
componants including memory and W2K on the Intel Board works just fine..
Incidently, there is an update in XP for the AMD processor and the VIA chipsets which
helped on a test install but still had problems from time to time with XP Pro. The
system shuts down to fast IMO and doesn't give the HD long enough to flush the cache
and the bigger the cache on the HD the worse the corruption. You might try disabling
the HD cache (in the Device manager) and see what happens. I dumped both of them
(board and CPU's) and haven't used AMD since.
I am a systems builder for clients and no longer use AMD systems or boards with VIA
and SIS chipsets. Just had to many issues with them and to many headaches. I only
have one machine left (storage and media server) with a VIA chipset and an Intel
P3 and it works OK but still has patches for bugs in the chipset. I have an A7V
on my bench right now with the same complaints from the customer. Data loss and
constantly has problems on start up running W2K. Haven't tried it on XP yet. Have
you updated the drivers with the 4 in 1 updates from VIA? Asus is terrible on this
one!!
At any rate, I would put my money on a problem involving older drivers in W2K and
a hardware issue from my own experience. If XP runs OK, you might not be able to
use W2K seeing as MS really isn't interested in working out compatibility problems
on older operating systems. Only other issue was that Asus has a recommended memory
manufacture and model specs on these boards and that sometimes makes a difference
even though a software tester may pass the mem tests. Can't help much but relay
my own experiences with the same type of errors and corruptions that you are experiencing...
I did hours of searching and on the phone to Asus and no luck other than to find
others with the same problems! Can't help on disabling the onboard LAN, I don't
see an option to disable it either so you will have to disable it in the Windows
Device manager unless later BIOS updates added a feature. It "could be" a problem
in the video drivers, but how to tell for sure.. Good Luck!! ;-)
On Wednesday, October 5, 2005 at 7:57 pm, Lee wrote:
> I *did* just recently upgrade from a Tyan Tachyon G9000 Pro (ATI Radeon 9000
>Pro chipped video card) to an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro as the Tyan died. But, let me
see.
>
>Asus A7V 333 X motherboard.
>AMD Athlon Palomino 1900+
>Kingston 512mb DDR 2100
>ATI Radeon 9600 Pro video card w/ 256mb of GDDR
>Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
>3Com 3C905TX NIC
>
>Another thing, I haven't found the Broadcom built in NIC disable with in the bios
>settings, but with the 3Com NIC I get better speed and less work installing Windows
>than with the Broadcom.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Lee
>
>
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