don't put anything in pci slot 3, its shared with the hpt controller,
slot 4 and slot 5 are bus mastered. Maybe that was causing the problem.
Mike
On
Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Eric Andreychek wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I had mentioned earlier on the list that I recently purchased 2 cards for
> my BP6 - a Matrox G400 Max (AGP), and an SBlive X-Gamer (PCI). Before
> getting these cards, my system was rock solid, and had no unexplained
> lockups. I had a Diamond Stealth 2d card (PCI) and a Pro Audio Spectrum
> (ISA). After putting the new cards in (and taking the old ones out),
> however, my system locks up every few hours.
>
> I finally got a chance to troubleshoot a little bit. I tried various PCI
> slot combinations for the SBlive card, with no luck. Trying to limit it
> down to one card - I took out the SBlive card for awhile, and it still
> crashed. I put it back in, and removed the new video card, put in the old
> video card, and it still crashed. However - this is the wierd part - when
> I take out both new cards, and put in both old cards, all works fine.
>
> Aside from the 2 new cards I just purchased, the only other cards in my
> system are an ISA US Robotics modem, and a PCI NE2000 compatible network
> card. Also, I'm running a 8GB drive on IDE controller 0, and a 16X cdrom
> on controller 1 (the ATA/33 controllers).
>
> Now, most of those cards are older cards and devices, except for the ones
> I just put in. Is there something that a new card would be doing, that
> one of the older ones wouldn't? I just can't figure out why this board
> would crash with my sblive, but not my pro audio spectum. Because it's
> PCI? Well, I can put my old stealth card in the same PCI slot and it is
> stable. Who knows.
>
> There is a good side to the story. After all this, I did try the noapic
> option, and for at least 8 hours, it hasn't completely locked up on me
> (using the new cards), although X crashed once. Usually, the system locks
> up at least 3 or 4 times in that kind of time period, so that's really
> good news.
>
> I'm not really expecting an answer or anything (although I wouldn't mind
> any answers or suggestions if you have them!), I'm more saying all this
> to help with the troubleshooting process. If there's anything else I can
> do to test or be of assistance in any way, please let me know!
> -Eric
>
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