Asus P4S333 post problem

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I have a Asus P4S333 MB with a Geforce 4 MX440 graphics card. With the
graphics card in place all works well. I had an old 10MB Lan card
installed in one of the PCI slots and it works well together with a
AOpen Cobra Sound card in another slot. I have purchased a new 100MB
lan card and when I install it in the PCI slot, the system won't POST.
It gives me the Beeeeeep Beep Beep Beep error which indicates a
problem with the Graphics card. The Lan card works well in another
machine. If I keep hitting the restart button just after the beeps, I
can get it to post but this only happens one out of twenty times.
After many hours of struggling with Bios settings and upgrading of
every driver under the sun I still cannot get the Geforce and Lan card
to live together in harmony. It appears to be an interrupt problem
with the Lan Card and the Geforce card fighting for the same
interrupt. If the Geforce card manages to snatch it before the Lan
card does then all is well and it boots perfectly. However if the Lan
card snatches it first then the graphics card gets upset.

Can anyone help me or do I have to continue to live in a world where
data in my house only travels at 10MB/s?
 
Manie said:
I have a Asus P4S333 MB with a Geforce 4 MX440 graphics card. With the
graphics card in place all works well. I had an old 10MB Lan card
installed in one of the PCI slots and it works well together with a
AOpen Cobra Sound card in another slot. I have purchased a new 100MB
lan card and when I install it in the PCI slot, the system won't POST.
It gives me the Beeeeeep Beep Beep Beep error which indicates a
problem with the Graphics card. The Lan card works well in another
machine. If I keep hitting the restart button just after the beeps, I
can get it to post but this only happens one out of twenty times.
After many hours of struggling with Bios settings and upgrading of
every driver under the sun I still cannot get the Geforce and Lan card
to live together in harmony. It appears to be an interrupt problem
with the Lan Card and the Geforce card fighting for the same
interrupt. If the Geforce card manages to snatch it before the Lan
card does then all is well and it boots perfectly. However if the Lan
card snatches it first then the graphics card gets upset.

Can anyone help me or do I have to continue to live in a world where
data in my house only travels at 10MB/s?
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sounds odd. have you tried updating the bios? or maybe downgrading the
bios? also try the pci card in different slots.
 
"Martin L. Kristiansen" said:
sounds odd. have you tried updating the bios? or maybe downgrading the
bios? also try the pci card in different slots.
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Have a look in the manual. There is a table called "IRQ Assignments
for this Motherboard". If you aren't using the onboard LAN, then slot 3
would be a good place for the LAN card (I'm assuming you aren't using
the ACR slot). Slot 2 would be a good place for the Sound Card, again
assuming you aren't using the onboard sound, and you aren't using PCI
slot 6. There is a slight interrupt priority based on PCI slot
number, and the sound card in slot 2 will get a higher priority than
the LAN card (sound cards are latency sensitive, so can use the
help). PCI slots 1 and 5 are out, as they share a physical interrupt line
with the AGP slot (that is, unless you can find cards that behave
themselves in those slots).

If you have a lot of PCI cards, name them, as many of them will
play nice with IRQs. Sound cards generally need help to run well.
LAN cards are normally well behaved, so unless the card is not
being enumerated properly (i.e. the BIOS thinks it is a PCI
video card or something), it should work wherever you put it.
(My assignments in the first paragraph are intended as a workaround
for your problem.)

HTH,
Paul
 
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