I just built my first system with the help of my brother. It's an A7V133 mobo with an AMD 1GHz T-bird. I'm running Windows 98SE. At first I thought the lockups were related to the power management because the system would not wake up and required a reset. I changed that to not go into Standby mode, only turn off the monitor after 15 minutes, and never turn off the HDD. Today it locked up while deleting some news headers in Agent. The only things running were two copies of Agent and Windows Explorer. It's done this once before. As well as locked up accessing My Computer. As soon as it started to come up and display the drive information it locked up. Often after locking up I'll have to reset twice before it will completely reboot. And then a number of times the drive letters have been rearranged. I have two HDDs. Restarting Windows corrects the drive letters.
My guess is the problem has something to do with the Promise controller and the way I have my drives hooked up. I have the following drives connected:
1. IBM 75 GXP connected to Promise primary controller as master (this drive is partitioned 10G (Drive C), 10G (E), and 40G (F))
2. IBM 10G ATA33 HDD connected to Promise secondary controller as master (this drive is one partition (Drive D)
3. 40X CDROM connected to nonPromise primary controller as master
4. Zip 100 connected to nonPromise primary controller as slave
5. CD-R connected to nonPromise secondary controller as master
I've downloaded and installed the latest Promise drivers from ASUS -- 1.60 (Build 33). My next thought was to move my IBM ATA33 HDD as the master to my CD-R on my nonPromise secondary controller. I hope to try that this weekend. Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.
My guess is the problem has something to do with the Promise controller and the way I have my drives hooked up. I have the following drives connected:
1. IBM 75 GXP connected to Promise primary controller as master (this drive is partitioned 10G (Drive C), 10G (E), and 40G (F))
2. IBM 10G ATA33 HDD connected to Promise secondary controller as master (this drive is one partition (Drive D)
3. 40X CDROM connected to nonPromise primary controller as master
4. Zip 100 connected to nonPromise primary controller as slave
5. CD-R connected to nonPromise secondary controller as master
I've downloaded and installed the latest Promise drivers from ASUS -- 1.60 (Build 33). My next thought was to move my IBM ATA33 HDD as the master to my CD-R on my nonPromise secondary controller. I hope to try that this weekend. Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.