I know it's too much to expect 6 IDE channels to work in harmony. So I'm back to one IDE card and setting up master/slave for all drives. Still, with a refresh install, WinXP only recognize 2 ATA133 drives on the primary IDE channel as UDMA5. It recognized the drive correctly if I only connected...
I'm 2/3 through the 15 pages of the 8RDA+ thread but had to ask the questions below as I've been battling boot and CDRW performance issues. Sorry about the long post but I want provide as much info. Below is my setup:
Athlon XP2100+, optimal default in BIOS, not OC'd
Crucial PC2700 DDR 512MB...
I'm 2/3 through the 15 pages of the 8RDA+ thread but had to ask the questions below as I've been battling boot and CDRW performance issues. Sorry about the long post but I want provide as much info. Below is my setup:
Athlon XP2100+, optimal default in BIOS, not OC'd
Crucial PC2700 DDR 512MB...
Jeff7,
Thanks for pointing me to AIDA32 below is what I captured. Sorry I didn't get to this earlier, I had a bad AGP card and it took me a while to isolate that.
My usual recommendation: AIDA32
Download and install it; under its Storage section is an icon for SMART. Right click on the drive...
Are you suggesting that I disable SMART in bios? BTW, the board was repaired once due to no POST at all and I'm not looking forward to the 1+ month turnaround.
Jayhawk
I got bad SAMRT status during boot a few days after upgrading to the new drive. The drive was on the primary master and my mobo is EPox 8RDA+. I have 3 more HDs (2 120GB, 1 80GB), 1 dvd-rom and 1 cd-rw. The PS is Antec 350W smartpower and there are 2 120mm case fans.
I ran PowerMax diag with...
I got an IOGear 2 port KVM switch from buy.com a month ago for $29.99 with free shipping. No problem what so ever. I also use 1280x1024 at 85Hz. I didn't even shot down my desktop and laptop when installing it. I was a little concerned about higher refresh rate as I'm very sensitive to...
I got an IOGear 2 port KVM switch from buy.com a month ago for $29.99 with free shipping. No problem what so ever. I also use 1280x1024 at 85Hz. I didn't even shot down my desktop and laptop when installing it. I was a little concerned about higher refresh rate as I'm very sensitive to...
To avoid contention on the same IDE channel, I connect 2 HD (both UDMA-5) to the on-board IDE channels and 2 optical drives (both UDMA-2) on the PCI IDE controller card (Promise Ultra 100 TX2). I have noticed that it takes longer for the Promise card to detect the optical drives than the hard...
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