Buslogic, yamaha, via tech & win2k

[Buslogic, yamaha, via tech & win2k]

Heyz.

I've got this reeaally anoying problem with win2k.

I installed it fine and dandy, all working after i used that tinywiny .inf Via recently shared with us.

Now, today i had to remove my cdrom and to my surprise, win2k took forever to load.

I looked @ the lights of my Yamaha CDrecorder and it was blinking like it used to, but now it just kept blinking.

When it finished booting and i get to explorer, to my amazement my cdr wasn't there.

Acording to my Event Viewer the error was this:

"The device, \Device\Scsi\flashpnt1, did not respond within the timeout period. "

Source : flashpnt

this error is allover the event viewer pane, with timestamps with 11 seconds of interval.

Now, it all worked *before* I removed the cdrom (an hitachi model), but when i boot *after* removing it (i disabled it prior to physical removal) the scsi board just went catatonic on me.

My setup is as follows:

1st mainboard with viatech chipset (sorry but i can't seem to find out what particular chipset)

AMD K6-2 350

Diamond Viper 550C

Buslogic Flashpoint Scsiboard

2 HDs (one on IDE1, other on IDE2)

1 CD-Rom (hitachi, on IDE1)

Yamaha cdr200 (not sure about the model, it burns @ 2x and reads @ 6x...pretty old)

i think it's all that matters

thx for any help

[Nvidia drivers and ALi or Via chipsets in win2k. any success]

Actually the NT 4.0 drivers work rather well, on my Via chipset with a Diamond Viper...

I believe that the problem is with Via's implementation, because the problem seems to be in the AGP interface. The same incompatibility appeared on 95/98 (i think it was corrected on SE), and it was indeed a via tech's problem. A simple "driver" solved the problem.

I guess that the only thing to do is to wait for via to release some drivers for win2k...i just hope it doesn't take too long...