Seth has made a very good point. Position of cards DOES matter. Here is a
rundown of my system
Abit BX6 2.0 Motherboard
Celeron 300a (Overclock to 464)
256 megs PC100 (2 dimms)
TNT2 Ultra (AGP)
Aureal Superquad (PCI)
Linksys LNEPCI (Ethernet, PCI, 10bt, school connection)
US Robotics Winmodem (PCI, for use when I am at home)
IWILL 2935UW Scsi card (UltraPlex 40x, Zip, and Plexwriter 8/20, and soon to
have HDD's)
Microsoft MS80 speakers (On USB bus, wich shares bandwidth with PCI)
10GB IBM Deskstar 7200rmp UtraATA/66 (4 partitions)
2.5G WD hdd (Primary boot (NT and 98), 2 partitiions 1.25 gigs each)
2.1 Maxtor (Linux boot and swap)
I have 5 PCI slots, and 2 ISA. No cards are in ISA. I had to spend 6 days
playing card shuffel to find the best config. Sound would stutter, programs
would crash. I disabled USB for speakers, it all went good after that.
Some motherboards prefer cards in some slots. Abit says most important
cards should go in, if I remember correctly, slots 2, 4, 5. These have IRQ
and bandwidth priorities. Check your motherboard manufacturers site for
more info.
Also, for MVp3 motherboards, make sure you have up to date drivers for
A. AGP VXD drivers (if not correctly installed, can cause memory leaks, and
other problems) B. PCI miniport, *IMPORTANT* drivers, and C. IDE
controller drivers (Bus master IDE). These can be found at www.via.com.tw .
But what else are you running in the background when running Autocad13?
Shawn M. Pierce
Information and User support specialist
University of Minnesota, College of Agriculture Departments of Plant
Pathology and Agronomy
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