need help SiS 655 + ATI 9700 pro based system

[veldrane]

hi

i recently purchased a main board, MSI SiS 655 chipset based, and ATI 9700 All in WOnder Pro vid card along with intel 3.06 CPU and some nice RAM to go with that. this one : http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=424&MODEL=MS-6730

ugh, ok, if anyone read this post before i edited it i just got all those driver problems settled after about 11 hours and a sleepless night.

however, i still have a problem of system hanging when restarting, rebooting.

i'm firmly convinced it has to do with the mobo, possibly the ATI card since i dont even need to boot up the HD for it to occur. anytime i boot into bios menu, then restart my system, the following happens:


system shuts down except the CPU fan and half the time the monior. the system hangs there indefinetly and does not restart just sits in that spot. in order for me to actually shutdown, i have to pull the plug or hit the switch on the back of teh case or the power strip.


i have checked all switch connections between case and mobo, all bios settings, power settings etc countless times to no avail. been at it for hours on end and cannot figure it out.

also dont see any options how to make my system power up or power down using the power/sleep/wake up keys on teh keyboard. there is an option for it in the bios, but i cannot seem to get it to respond at all on any of the available settings with any of teh available options.


thanks if anyone has any ideas.

 

[veldrane]

ack, no one knows ?

was hoping for some pointers, maybe get the headache over while i wait for the replay from MSI and see what they say. I will in meanwhile perform one more test, plug in my old vid card GF3 and see how that turns out. It should at least tell me for 100% if the problem is at the mobo side only and not related to vid card I would think.

so kinda shameless bump in hopes someone in afternoon hours may shed some light on this.

 

[sunkim50]

The 8X AGP on SIS chipsets boards really don't like ATI 8X cards. I would recommend a different mobo unless they have come out with some patches

 

[veldrane]

damn

i just scaled down to AGP 4x and stil get same thing, no difference.

but geting another board isnt really too much of an option for me. the vendor that i got it from is an hour drivce away and comes around once a month. in addition, the reason i went SiS instead of the otehr boards was that they had only boards that use up to PC2700 ram, this one uses up to PC 3200, so i bought a twin set of corsair PC3200 sticks for it. so even if i made the sacrifice and got anotehr board and resold this one with a little lower end components (so it runs good) at a loss, i would still have to most likely end up buying new RAM for it and that would really suck.

i still cant put my finger on this, its really screwy, if i got wrong memory, or there was a hardware incompatibility, or something like that shouldnt i have otehr and more immediate errors or problems and shouldnt they become apparent rather during start or peak system usage then when shuting down ?

i know its something probobly very small and stupid that i am missing in this puzzle, just dont know what.

 

[Feldenak]

Try this thread over at Asusboards.

 

[Viper5]

Jut use some samsung Ram. I know that works fine with it!