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Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 3:07 am
by Grizzly
I'm trying to install a used Pulsar 2 I recently bought. I know about the ASPI player problem and have installed it. I try to update the driver for the board and XP warns me that the driver is not digitally signed. I proceed anyhow. The computer restarts and windows gives me a prompt that says "The system has recovered from a serious error." I try reloading the driver and the same thing happens.
Unfortunately this is my first post on this board. I was hoping my first post might be more joyous. Help a noob if you can. Thanks.
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 3:11 am
by marcuspocus
Looks like an IRQ sharing problem... What motherboard? CPU? Which PCI slot it is in? What other pci card do you have? And don't waste time looking in windows for sharing, i'm talking about sharing at bios/hardware level....
Give us a bit more to be able to help you...
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 3:20 am
by siberiansun
sorry, double post...
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Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 3:20 am
by siberiansun
hmmm... i remember the exact same issue when i upgraded to WinXP. unfortunately i don't remember e x a c t l y how i solved it but i do know that the only thing i've ever done to solve driver, or any SFP, problems is to uninstall SFP, also uninstall your pulsar board from device manager, restart and manually point the installation dialogs to the win2k driver folder in SFP.
point it to the SFP 3.1a or b folder. THEN upgrade to 3.1c
good luck!
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 1:35 pm
by Grizzly
Cool thanks. I will try uninstalling and then reinstalling to see if that helps.
Unfortunately I am not very well versed in this stuff so forgive me if I don't have all the information. The processor is a Pentium 3 500mhz, I'm not sure what the motherboard is but I got the computer from Micron. I had a friend helping me with the installation and we put the Pulsar 2 in the first PCI slot. We initially put the Pulsar into the second PCI slot but it wouldn't go in because the metal part on the end was interfering with a capacitor on the board! My friend did something with the IRQs when we swapped slots between an ethernet card and the Pulsar because it wasn't being recognized. We restarted and then the card was showing up and we got to the screen prompting "Which components do you want to install." I told him I could take it from there and I packed up my computer and took it to my house, but when I started up the computer later, the card wasn't being recognized.
Hopefully that is enough information. Thanks for the quick response.
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 2:27 pm
by dbmac
There's a very good chance that PCI slot 1 is forced sharing an IRQ with your AGP video card, which is not good. Another PCI slot is recommended.
Just a guess, not knowing your board.
/dave
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 6:14 pm
by Grizzly
Well uninstalling then reinstalling seemed to work. Strange?!?!?! Thanks for the help. Hopefully I won't run into many other problems. (Yeah right.)