If the card says it's a PCI 2.2 that could be it. To be shure, setup your
comp. just to work and boot to windows. With just VGA, IDE, keyboard/mouse,
nosound. Disable and pull out of the board evrything unnecesary, remember to
properly maintain BIOS settings so there are no known conflicting config
settings (if you leave BOIS to handle the situations where is no certan
resolution for the conflict in hardware, the thing is that only newer boards
(letsay 2000<) are able to perform proper hardware autoconfig handling on
BIOS levels). Then boot windows so it configs itself. Turnoff win. Conect
the adapter and boot win again. At this point everything should still work
and we sholud have a 'New Hardware..' popped if P'N'P works right. Sometime
after device is P'N, just wont fuc*in' 'P! . But if the adapter is
incompatible than thats the end of the story, witch should be commented with
apropriate BIOS error code by the systems 'bi-os' or the adapters 'bi-os'.
The main issue 4in1 gave me was that it messes up Windows so that Win is
unable to
maintain proper IRQ and DMA hanling for some BIOS resources like PCI and
ISA, and has issues with IDE ATA channels.
But everything is fine if you leave Windows original config by not applying
4in1. Then Windows sucessfuly handles lack of free BIOS resources.
Unfortunatly there is no known 4in1 uninstaller to me, so to revert the
situation windows reinstall should be apllied.
For example this is what happend to me. My Win would 'drop' IDE devices
after apply of 4in1. And it looked like the board is unable to handle to
many devices. But after time doing clean Win installs my system was able to
handle firs IDE channel with two master ATAPI devices and one master IDE
device driven by PCI Ultra ATA 100 controler and some other PCI and ISA
cards, com ports also, LPT. . ..
But after 4in1 install I would loose one ATAPI device handled by onboard IDE
controler.
So if you dont really need else than AGP from 4in1, dont instal .inf and IDE
sections in 4in1 setup.
In addition to some VA503+ hangs.There were problems with PCI IDE controlers
and enabled onboard IDE controler's channels.
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