Albatron PX845PE and temp monitor?

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GraveLayer

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Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
I have this mobo too. MBM works when you get it setup and does what it needs to do.

I love this mobo...2.26Ghz P4 running on a 158Mhz FSB at DDR421 with Corsair XMS3200


I just downloaded MBM and need to know how to setup this mobo for temp. monitoring!! There is NO software with this board. It has the HW monitoring in the BIOS but no way to read it. I've used MBM before but this mobo isn't listed as a supported one....

HELP!!

 

hbkh

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As long as the Winbond W83627HF chip is supported then it should be ok... even it its not listed on the MBM site.
 

HWF

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GraveLayer

I've had dificulty deciding which of the winbonds listed in mbm to use. If its not to much troble post what you decided to use.
 

BlessidThug

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GraveLayer That's very strange that you can't have two drives connected to the IDE RAID port. I have never used RAID before but wouldn't the right cable (with connectors) allow you to connect the two drives to the port? What would be the point of having the RAID port if you can only connect one drive? Maybe an email to Albatron support is in order.

Originally posted by: GraveLayer
Well i'm not happy.

I bought 2 WD 80G 8M cache hard drives and CAN NOT USE THEM IN RAID on this motherboard.

The ONE IDE Raid port ONLY supports 1 parallel HD!! The Promise fasttrak 376 manual says it supports from 1-3 drives, 2 SATA and 1 Parellel ATA!!
 

hbkh

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In order for RAID to be effective you have to have the drives on different channels (0 +1). An IDE channel can only be doing one thing at a time, but if you have two drives and two channels then they can both be working at the same time.

What would be the point of having the RAID port if you can only connect one drive? Maybe an email to Albatron support is in order.
None, i think thats why he bought the RAID card.

everyone agree?
 

GraveLayer

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I'm now only using 1 hard drive.
I get about a 50M benchmark

Using the IDE Raid port with 1 IDE drive I got a score around 25M (You can NOT use 2 parallel IDE drives!! Period!! )

I bought an Adaptec 1200a dual channel raid card and the score was only 2M ! Thats NOT a typo!! .inf , AA, newest drivers didn't matter. The card has been returned!

All this on XP Pro.....

This board is only going to be in my system until GB is out, which should be in less than 2 weeks. Dual Channel DDR !! I've seen some early Sandra Memory scores breaking 4000 on these boards!

 

Ketchup

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This is strange indeed and the Asus P4PE has the same Promise RAID controller, but HardOCP says you can run two drives on the Parallel IDE port. What does it do when you put drives in a master/slave setup on this Parallel controller on the Albatron? Does it not detect the slave?
 

GraveLayer

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Believe me you CAN NOT USE THIS MOBO in a RAID arry with 2 Parallel drives!!

Show me the link on hardOCP!


ALSO THERE IS A NEW BIOS OUT JUST TODAY and it states right in the fixes ENHANCED Overclocking features!! My Corsair PC3500Cas2 is due in tomorrow! Running my 2.4 C1 stepping at 152fsb with 434 turbo max. all but the ram doesn't do any more (PC2700). Hopeing for 167fsb @ Cas2 !!

 

Ketchup

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A quick trip to Albatron's site proved HarOCP dead wrong. Here is what HardOCP had to say:

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MzY3LDI=

"Two Serial ATA headers are present in addition to the regular ATA133 IDE headers thanks to the Promise PDC20376 chip. Something to keep in mind is the fact that each serial ATA header supports only a single drive on each port. There is also a third IDE channel available that supports two parallel hard drives that can be used instead of the serial ATA connections. Remember, either the IDE or SATA can be used on the P4PE but not both at the same time."

This is another reason why I am losing faith in this website. (in addition to the Hyper-threading snafu). They are dead wrong on two counts. The Parallel ATA channel only supports one drive, and you CAN use Parallel and Serial ATA together (although I can't imagine why anyone would do this). I find quite alarming how easily they can pass off two false facts as truthful, when the answer was probably right there in the manual!

Here is what Albatron says about the Promise Controller:

Promise Disk Management
Specialized Disk Management system providing RAID (level 0,1) functionality.
Promise HDD Connectors
One Parallel ATA 133 connector supporting one hard drive. Two Serial ATA 150 connectors each supporting one hard drive.
Promise RAID Options
RAID 0 - striped array using one to three Promise drives (one Parallel, two Serial).
RAID 1 - mirrored array using any two Promise drives (Serial/Parallel or Serial/Serial).

GraveLayer, this new bios revision sounds promising. I was reading in another forum that Watch-Dog timer was really screwing up everbody's overclocks over default voltage.

I really want to try a PE board with the 3:4 memory ratio, but I don't think it's worth sacrificing RAID to get it!
 

GraveLayer

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Ketchup79,
Thats for the clairifications!!

I gave up a U160 SCSI Raid setup in my last system for just a SINGLE WD800JB and can say I'm just as happy if not even MORE happy with the Single 8M/chache drive! Boot up is WAY WAY WAY faster and I just don't see any speed differences at ALL. I mostly game so maybe if I did video editing or something! I believe RAID is a over used FAD for most everyone!

I have my Corsair Xtreme PC3500Cas2 512Meg stick in my hand and will see if my 2.4B C1 can do 167fsb tonight!! My old ram booted at 166fsb cas 2.5 but there were sparatic reboots with the nice voice command saying "They may be a problem with your memory!"

We'll see!!

 

GraveLayer

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3000Ghz !
167fsb at Cas2-3-3-7 Turbo settings (3:4) runs windows just FINE!!

I am having problems with 1942 now though Even with the AGP/PCI set to 66/33 I get a sound "problem" at 167fsb.... I haven't tried any other games yet and it IS NOT a problem even at 162fsb.
Sandra runs fine as does 3DMark2001 SE

THIS IS WITH THE NEW BIOS THAT JUST CAME OUT on 12/2/2002

 
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