M577 mobo and agp pro ide driver problems

[spickee]

Call me stupid.

Ok.

About 6 months ago I tried installing the AGP Pro ide dma driver that came with the mobo. No end of problems and about three days to get rid of it, and back to the standard windows drivers.

Well I did it again last night with the (what i thought were) updated driver file from their website. Well I installed from CD and then when the computer rebooted guess what it looked for the primary ide channel, looked for the secondary, found it. Rebooted and locked, I am going to remove the drivers tonight because I couldn't get back into my CD roms, so I've stuck it on floppy.

After much hair tearing out and shouting, I gave up and went to bed, it was either that or the wife would have put me on the sofa.

Has anyone else had this problem? If so how did you cure it?

Many thanks

Spickee

[Ricardo]

Hi again !
I can´t undersand why you have too many problems running the correct drivers of this MoBo. I´m running the drivers that I downloaded from the PCCHIPS site and everything runs fine, my HD(8.4Gb Fujitsu)is UDMA enabled, my two CD-Rom(one 5X DVD from Creative and one CD-R from Panasonic, both IDE)have DMA mode enabled and no lock ups or something like you told. Let me know what Windows are you using, Win95A, Win95OSR or Win98/SE? I´m running Win98(not SE).
If it´s possible, re-format your HD and install everything by the book, including the new Via AGP-PRO UDMA drivers, must work.
If not, come back and I will send to you, by e-mail, the version of my driver that is working fine. I have a doubt, maybe your Bios is too old and, like I told you in the other post, you need to flash to a newer version.
Keep me informed about your progress, like someone told: PCCHIPS MoBo´s aren´t easy to install, but when they are correctly installed works very fine. Believe me, I almost lost my wife in the beginning. but now everything is ok and I´m happy with it.
Good Luck /forum/wink.gif

Ricardo