Hey there I built a system for a friend over the weekend based around the aforementioned barebones system. I’ve finally managed to get an OS on there but it is unstable as hell. Here is the history; it would be wicked if u guys could help.
-removed the rubber pads from the cpu (XP 2600+ to make good contact with the HS)
-Whacked the memory in Corssair value 2700
-First power on, amended bios to boot from floppy. Updated bios with the latest version using amiflash.exe ftp://ftp.shuttle.com/BIOS/fx43g(sk43g)/fx43s410.zip
- That worked fine, then got into the bios and set what I thought to be a good stable set up. Plug and play OS on, ACPIC functions on, pretty much everything that controls memory / resource allocation left to the OS. SPD settings on the memory which runs at 166 (ddr 333). As there was only one drive I turned RAID off / set it to IDE mode.
Heres where the fun started. Booted of XP disk (corp volume license edition with SP1) It copied all of the files and got to the end of the first bit and I get the good old irq_not_less or equal bloo screen. Why do i only ever get this on VIA chipsets!! Arg.
Ok take 2. Go into bios load fail safe defaults. Reboot and reconfig slightly to allow correct boot device etc.. That’s it promise!
This time Windows builds ok. I got in there did all of the VIA drivers.. which confuse me slightly. Should I install Arena or Hyperion, or both? Seeing as they all do things for the chipset. If some one could recommend a good set of drivers to use and the order to whack them on it would be sweet. So got the drivers on there including VGA DX9. Should I bother putting the VIA usb2 on there as the support is already in SP1? I did it anyway.
Amongst all of these installs nast unexplained reboots started happening, sometimes a blu screen sometimes not. Checking in event viewer confirms that there IRQ problems again.
So Tonight im gonna start from fresh. I guess its just an install order thing, and knowing which drivers to use. I found a different part to the shuttle website (@ the we I had been using .co.uk but .com seems a lot better organized) I intend to install in this order…
After that DX9, then SP2?
-removed the rubber pads from the cpu (XP 2600+ to make good contact with the HS)
-Whacked the memory in Corssair value 2700
-First power on, amended bios to boot from floppy. Updated bios with the latest version using amiflash.exe ftp://ftp.shuttle.com/BIOS/fx43g(sk43g)/fx43s410.zip
- That worked fine, then got into the bios and set what I thought to be a good stable set up. Plug and play OS on, ACPIC functions on, pretty much everything that controls memory / resource allocation left to the OS. SPD settings on the memory which runs at 166 (ddr 333). As there was only one drive I turned RAID off / set it to IDE mode.
Heres where the fun started. Booted of XP disk (corp volume license edition with SP1) It copied all of the files and got to the end of the first bit and I get the good old irq_not_less or equal bloo screen. Why do i only ever get this on VIA chipsets!! Arg.
Ok take 2. Go into bios load fail safe defaults. Reboot and reconfig slightly to allow correct boot device etc.. That’s it promise!
This time Windows builds ok. I got in there did all of the VIA drivers.. which confuse me slightly. Should I install Arena or Hyperion, or both? Seeing as they all do things for the chipset. If some one could recommend a good set of drivers to use and the order to whack them on it would be sweet. So got the drivers on there including VGA DX9. Should I bother putting the VIA usb2 on there as the support is already in SP1? I did it anyway.
Amongst all of these installs nast unexplained reboots started happening, sometimes a blu screen sometimes not. Checking in event viewer confirms that there IRQ problems again.
So Tonight im gonna start from fresh. I guess its just an install order thing, and knowing which drivers to use. I found a different part to the shuttle website (@ the we I had been using .co.uk but .com seems a lot better organized) I intend to install in this order…
After that DX9, then SP2?
