pci-gpib doesn't work on ASUS A7V mother board

[Gooitzen Zwanenburg]

Hi,
I have a strange problem with a PCI-GPIB board installed on an Asus A7V motherboard with 1 GHz Athlon. Under Linux (NI drivers 0.82, Redhat 7.2 2.4.10 kernel), NT and Windows 2000 (NI 1.7 drivers) the board seems to be installed properly under Linux, module loads fine, under Win2000 and NT hardware tests are passed. However under NT and Win2000 an "unknown software error" occurs. Under linux ibfind gives no problem, but anything that tries to communicate with the bus times out.
Now for the strange thing, installed in an old HP vectra dual pentium pro, the card works fine under win2000. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Gootizen Zwanenburg
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

[madcur]

Hi,

There are a couple of things you can try, but first:
1. The board seems fine, and I have also never seen something like this
2. It is not OS related
3. The only common thing is the motherboard and the PCI-GPIB board.

So, you may want to go to the Asus website, and download there their latest bios:
http://download.asus.com.tw/mb_dl_menu.asp
Also, you may check with the card in a different PCI slot, maybe it was disabled or the PCI slot is bad.
Third, you may want to check PCI bus speed (try 33MHz).

Good luck,

Erik

[Gooitzen Zwanenburg]

Erik,
Thanks for your answer. I have not been entirely accurate in my original question. THe board involved was an ASUS 7VE board. We swapped it with a ASUS 7V board from an other machine which did the trick. Runs now fine under both Linux and Windows 2000. As you said, probably some problem with the speed of the PCI bus (did try different slots).

Thanks again,
Gooitzen