Platino

Good evening, folks.

Recently I bought the mainboard mentioned in the title and it works fine all in all, besides of one annoying problem. I installed Windows XP with Service Pack including all the newest device drivers but when it came that I wanted to install the drivers for my Terratec TV-card, the system told me that it couldn't find any matching card.

Then I opened the device manager and saw that the message was correct: Not a single PCI-device listed although I DO have two of them plugged on the mainboard: The before mentioned "Terratec Cinergy 600 TV/Radio-TV"-card and an older "Soundblaster Live! 1024" that I need for the sound-transmission to my TV (I hate this permanently cable in and -out-pluging).
After this I tried to solve this problem with a simple reboot - and it worked! I restarted the system several times and the PCI devices kept staying in the device manager. After the main program-installations I confidently shut down the system and cut it off from the power supply, like I always do to save a bit of energy and money. On the next day, I started the system again but - just as predicted - that bothering problem was there again. No PCI devices found in the device manager.

Once again I rebooted the system for about three oder four times - the PCI devices stayed there. Then I shut down the system, turned off the power supply unit, waited for a few seconds, turned it on again und started the computer. My assumption was right: No PCI devices found. I think you can understand that I'm not willing to reboot my system every time after the first boot-up, just to make my PCI-cards appear.

Is this a known problem? I couldn't find anything about this on google. I'm thankful for every suggestion, idea or possible solution!

By the way, the processor is an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ and the system is not yet overclocked. Also no IRQ-conflicts were found - every device has it's own IRQ.