Here is the History:
I am upgrading (7) Dell Precision 420 workstations running windows NT sp6. These workstations consisted of 1 processor 866 secc2 (2 capable), 512 ram, 18G scsi 10k drive, integrated nic (920 3com) and audio(Crystal), floppy, diamond gl2, Adaptec aic-7899 bios Ver 25113 and IDE CD-rom.
Here is what I am changing:
2 processors 866 secc2 (purchased from dell)fire gl 8800 ATi, and XP Professional. Simple enough right? Wrong! I put in the video card, processor, and wiped the hard drive for a clean install. after installing XP, I had a conflict between the audio, video, and integrated nic. I thought it could be the video because it loaded a gen. driver. So I installed the xp drivers for the video(via install discthat came with card) and rebooted. This put XP into a continuous reboot, (when you see the xp screen before login it would restart the pc.) So I removed the video card put it the old one and it booted up. however it went to generic video again. I installed the diamond drivers and … continuous reboot again. So I put the file gl card back in and disabled the second processor in bios, booted up and No Conflict. video, int nic, and sound all functioned fine. Because I have 7 of these to do I tried swapping out processors 4 different ways and but it didn’t help. whenever you enable second processor you get a conflict between video, nic and audio. error code is 10 in device manager. two processors show up without error and function correctly. help please I need to get these out by next week. XP install is an open lic. agreement with MicroSoft.
Service tag of first pc is 1ILUL
here is the motherboard: PWA, Planar (Motherboard), SLT1, Carmel, G/T800, Precision Workstation
Thanks Paul