alving
07-10-1999, 10:52 PM
I put a new system together with the following components:
ASUS P2B-F
Celeron 400 @ 450Mhz
128MB PC133 HSDRAM
WD Caviar 6.4GB HD
Adaptec 2940AU SCSI Card
Plextor 32X SCSI CD-ROM
Quantum3D Raven (Voodoo Banshee) Card
3COM Fast EtherLink XL PCI (3C905B-TX) Card
LS-120 Internal Super Disk
Diamond Monster Sound PCI
Everything works fine...system boots quickly into Windows 98 Special Edition, latest reference drivers installed for the Banshee video card, NIC configured properly and connected to my small home network, hard drive DMA enabled and everything else apparently working just fine.
Except, I don't have the sound card installed because if I have the card installed on a PCI slot it causes the system POST to stop just after the CPU is noted and the 128MB of RAM is tested. The last statement to show is "Initialize all plug n play cards..." with the blinking cursor at the end. I can't even get into the BIOS at this point since repeatedly hitting the DEL key has no effect. I tried another sound card that I know works...a Diamond MX300, but again the same result.
I've gone into the BIOS and configured it to what I believe are optimal settings for my system to no avail. Interesting side note is that this problem was not happening prior to when I chose to revert to the BIOS default settings and the default Setup settings. I did this when I was experiencing another problem with my hard drive which is now resolved.
I haven't tried any other PCI card, aside from what is already successfully installed, such as a PCI video card or a WinTV PCI card but I might to see if the same problem occurs. Either way, it won't help to resolve the problem of installing the sound card.
Anyone have any ideas what I can try next or better yet, what am I doing wrong??
ASUS P2B-F
Celeron 400 @ 450Mhz
128MB PC133 HSDRAM
WD Caviar 6.4GB HD
Adaptec 2940AU SCSI Card
Plextor 32X SCSI CD-ROM
Quantum3D Raven (Voodoo Banshee) Card
3COM Fast EtherLink XL PCI (3C905B-TX) Card
LS-120 Internal Super Disk
Diamond Monster Sound PCI
Everything works fine...system boots quickly into Windows 98 Special Edition, latest reference drivers installed for the Banshee video card, NIC configured properly and connected to my small home network, hard drive DMA enabled and everything else apparently working just fine.
Except, I don't have the sound card installed because if I have the card installed on a PCI slot it causes the system POST to stop just after the CPU is noted and the 128MB of RAM is tested. The last statement to show is "Initialize all plug n play cards..." with the blinking cursor at the end. I can't even get into the BIOS at this point since repeatedly hitting the DEL key has no effect. I tried another sound card that I know works...a Diamond MX300, but again the same result.
I've gone into the BIOS and configured it to what I believe are optimal settings for my system to no avail. Interesting side note is that this problem was not happening prior to when I chose to revert to the BIOS default settings and the default Setup settings. I did this when I was experiencing another problem with my hard drive which is now resolved.
I haven't tried any other PCI card, aside from what is already successfully installed, such as a PCI video card or a WinTV PCI card but I might to see if the same problem occurs. Either way, it won't help to resolve the problem of installing the sound card.
Anyone have any ideas what I can try next or better yet, what am I doing wrong??