ASUS A7m266 - - - HELP!!!!!

[cyberhh]

I have a buddy that bought all the pieces to assemble a screamin' workstation with the ASUS A7M266 at the helm - however he has a problem - it seems that the six PCI slots share their IRQ's with different devices and the on-board sound card will not reassign to a different IRQ - continually conflicting with his RAID controller.

He tried to install a PCI sound card in slot 5, but it conflicted with the NIC in slot 4 (4&5 share resources).

The configuration is as followes:

AGP: ATI Radeon 64MB DDR
PCI1: Shared with AGP
PCI2: Adaptec SCSI RAID controller - IRQ-10 - AAA-131U2
PCI3: Adaptec Fast SCSI Controller - IRQ-11 - AHA-2906
PCI4: D-Link 10/100 NIC - IRQ 9
PCI5: Shared with PCI4

USB Shared with NIC

On-Board Audio when enabled attaches to IRQ10 - regardless of the BIOS setting.

Would not be that big of a deal, except he is doing video recording and needs the audio.

Any suggestions, even if the suggestion is another board at this point (Almost $2k in hardware that does not work correctly)

[Milenko]

Are the proper IRQ routing drivers installed for yer ASUS? I had a hell of a time with as ASUS board once, same problems that you are having. I took all the hardware out, installed the routing drivers, and then put all the hardware back in one piece at a time and the system worked like a champ.

[cyberhh]

Buddy is not sure, what drivers? Are they on the cd?

[protechpc]

I would remove everything except the video. Start from scratch, format etc. Leave the sound option disabled. Then run the ASUS driver CD. Install the O/S. Shut down and enable the sound option. Install the sound drivers from the ASUS CD. Afterwards, begin installing the devices one at a time.

[KoWind7]

Originally posted by cyberhh:

The configuration is as followes:

AGP: ATI Radeon 64MB DDR
PCI1: Shared with AGP
PCI2: Adaptec SCSI RAID controller - IRQ-10 - AAA-131U2
PCI3: Adaptec Fast SCSI Controller - IRQ-11 - AHA-2906
PCI4: D-Link 10/100 NIC - IRQ 9
PCI5: Shared with PCI4

is the 2906 card needed for a boot drive, or just a cd-rom? If it's just a cd, just switch to an IDE. Slower, but how often will you really need to pull a full cd off of it?

[MDD1963]

Originally posted by cyberhh:
Buddy is not sure, what drivers? Are they on the cd?

If you don't find the CD that came with the MB, you can probably find them at Asus' site, and I know I've seen AMD760 chipset drivers at AMD's site, under procesors. www.amd.com

[Leach]

These problems tend to occur a lot with ASUS boards (and VIA chipsets, which have nothign to do in this matter) just go find the latest routing drivers (as said before) and install them. That should take care of your problem, and if Im correct, doesnt that a7m have onboard sound, if so make sure that is disabled...