Promise Fastrack tx2 not compatable with agp graphics cards

[John Prophet]

for the heck of it, also make sure stuff like "serial ports" and "parallel ports" are disabled in the bios..that will free up some irqs and resources and possibly help the situation

[Peter M]

No. This is about ROM space, not IRQs or other resources.

If the system didn't have enough IRQs to map, not a single PCI device would be working - and if there's one single available IRQ, that'll do for ALL PCI devices.

Folks, please get it finally. Stop wasting people's time by putting them on the silly IRQ conflict track. Worse still, you'll get these people to mess up other, perfectly working parts of their system setup.

Daryl, did you disable the LAN boot ROM yet?

[Kuasimodem]

OK...

I guess the information that Promise provides is wrong, and you're right.


I was just going by the information that is provided by the manufacturer of the card, and providing a possible solution to the problem. I realize that the motherboard in question has only two PCI slots, but switching the card to the other slot and attempting boot wouldn't take that long and might actually solve the problem.

I didn't say anything about not having enough IRQs' to map, I was supposing a conflict between the Promise controller and either the AGP card or (like in the manual) an onboard IDE controller.

I bow down before your ultimate knowledge.

[Peter M]

Manufacturers' FAQs still are full of that IRQ conflict bullsh*t. That's part of why I use to get so angry when I see it.

Being a BIOS developper, working on actual x86 PC BIOS source code, wouldn't you think I know what's going on?

[DarylP]

Got the problem fixed. Had to up the apg memory to 256 megs in the bios and now it works fine. Thanks for all the help.. Daryl

[Peter M]

You mean, the AGP aperture size? That'd be news then. Duly noted, Radeon 9600 wants a 256 MByte aperture.

[John Prophet]

"You mean, the AGP aperture size? That'd be news then. Duly noted, Radeon 9600 wants a 256 MByte aperture."

OK Peter....is that an admission of being wrong? lol. If we as a community want to zealously correct others when we think they are wrong....like this-> ------->

"Folks, please get it finally. Stop wasting people's time by putting them on the silly IRQ conflict track. Worse still, you'll get these people to mess up other, perfectly working parts of their system setup."

If we are going to step out and correct others, we need to correct (and admit in the same public way we accused others) our own misgivings also. lol.

(spoken by one who has had to eat much crow of his own)

JP

[DarylP]

Yes You are right I ment the Agp aperture size... This 9600 is the powercolor version with 256 megs of ddr.. But I was having the same problems with a Nivida 400mx that had only 64 megs on it. Does anyone know why this would solve a post problem?

[Peter M]

John, so was I wrong about this not being an IRQ problem? Was my above rant in any way unjustified? No it wasn't.

Daryl, it seems your board's BIOS contains some kind of fsckup in building a proper PCI memory resource map at certain aperture size settings.