abit kt7 raid /sblive problem

[dholi]

hi,i have an abit kt7 raid board with 800mhz athlon...
i have an sblive mp3 card and ati radeon 32mb ddr video
card...i am not overclocking the cpu.

i am having the common problem of
the sblive (mp3+) card not working with the abit kt7 raid board...i have tried numerous things to try to get this to work...for example, disabling the ata100 controller, disabling sb16 emulation, installing new drivers...dorking with voltages, trying different pci slots...setting the pnp/pci irq5 to legacy isa.....none of which have worked...
the issue i have is win98 se hangs anywhere from 1-20 minutes after i load....does anyone have any suggestions?

thanks

 

[ogn]

Sounds like a heat related issue to me. What sort of fan are you using? You can always try reseating the heatsink. A friend of mine had a similar problem. I reseated the heatsink with some new thermal paste and problems went away.

 

[dholi]

it's a mega cool fan i got from mwaves..it is
had some paste under the heat sink when i put it on..

 

[dholi]

it's a mega cool fan i got from mwaves..it is
had some paste under the heat sink when i put it on..

 

[dholi]

some more info...plus the via monitor program reports the cpu
at less than 40 degrees celsius

 

[damac]

i was running the sblive platinum 5.1 and regular kt7 mb for a few weeks without any wierd crashes like that after setup and some irqs were actually being shared.

recently and only 2 weeks after setup and 2 weeks of NO crashes even when overclocking cpu, i started to get the shutdown problem and not booting up so assumed pencil on bridges was bad, so I yanked it and tried the defogger kit but it ain't working.

anyways Im dumping the kt7 board and ordered the msi one cause this thing has given me more headaches than any motherboard i have ever seen.

but once I did have it up I was totally trouble free that I could see. only wierd thing I ever noticed is constant crashes in everquest but none of my other games or benchmarking software.

 

[dholi]

anyone else have any suggestions?

 

[WillSyd]

Your problem is not a compatibility problem because I have the exact same motherboard and sound card. The difference is that I am running dual boot Win ME and Win 2000 both of which installed with no problems. My suggestion would be to see if you could use a copy of 2000 and see if it installs without a hitch, if it does then it may be a win 98se problem. Otherwise it could be the combination of cards you have in there. Here is my configuration:

Abit KT7 Raid
AMD Athlon 900 MHz
512MB PC133 SDRAM Cas2
2 40GB WD 7200 RPM Drives RAID 0
Geforce2 GTS 64MB DDR SDRAM Video Card
Netgear PCI 10/100 Ethernet Card
Sound Blaster Live MP3+
Kenwood 72x CD-ROM
Plextor 32x12x10x CD-RW

Hope this helps

 

[WillSyd]

One other thing, did you try installing Win98 without the SBLive in the machine and then adding it after you install the VIA 4in1? Just a thought, maybe getting past the installation process and then doing the 4in1 might get you past your problem.

Take care and good luck.

 

[dholi]

hi, i tried it both ways....i installed win98se....added
the new 4_1 drivers...and later set up the sound card...this
did not work....afterwards i left the sound card in when
i reloaded win98se.....do you think my problem could
directx related? i did not load directx 7.0a....in fact
i am not sure what directx version comes with win98se

 

[Antisocial Virge]

I had the same prob I think. Installed the Liveware software and got blue screens on startup. Also had the same prob with the Liveware software installed and then trying to install the Highpoint drivers. Just didn't install the the Liveware and everything is fine.

 

[darkfwank]

I have this little issue with my kt7raid. once and a while when i shut down my pc and turn it back on i get a beeeeeeeeep beep beep. i get no video. now if i take my sblive out and plug it back in and turn it back on it boots up. If i try a different slot it doesnt boot up either.

This is my config

ABIT KT7 RAID
AMD 1 GHZ THUNDERBIRD CPU
ELSA GLADIAC 32 MEG GEFORCE 32
328 MEGS OF PC133 RAM
2 20 GIG ATA/100 7200 RPM MAXTOR HD (CONFIGURED WITH RAID 0)
1 20 GIG ATA/33 5200 RPM MAXTOR HD
SBLIVE VALUE
LINKSYS NETWORK CARD
PLEXTOR PLEXWRITER 8/4/32X
TOSHIBA 12X DVDROM