BE6, Windows 2000 Service pack 4, and Adaptec PCI Firewire 4300 card locking up Windows

[Laura and Martin]

I installed a PCI-based Firewire Adaptec 4300 card into my PC with a BE6 board. It boots fine into Windows 2000 but at the point where it is finalizing the boot and just about to recognize new hardware and ask for drivers the system locks. It is definitely due to the card as I remove it and it works normal again, put it back in and it locks again. When I go into safe mode to install the driver from there it Blue Screens with a K-Mode exception not handled error. Is there a setting in the bios that I need to change? The card requirements say it needs a board that does bus mastering and I assume the BE-6 does. Has anybody else experienced this sort of thing with a PCI add on Firewire card? Thanks.

Martin

 

[TomG]

have you tried different slots for the firewire card?