Yet Another Component I'm Lusting After

Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » Tue May 21, 2002 1:55 pm

Dammit! I missed an entire conversation again. This having to sleep thing is really getting annoying

@Mr Sleep, thanks for the info on th KT133 problem. Do you know if it's OS specific?

I'm currenty running on a Gigabyte GA7-DXR+ with onboard RAID1 and the AMD 761 northbridge. I've had this board for nearly a year now so it's just about time for another upgrade.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Tue May 21, 2002 2:43 pm

Originally posted by Mr Flibble
@Mr Sleep, thanks for the info on th KT133 problem. Do you know if it's OS specific?

I am not sure, i think it is 95/98 specific, however i am not sure of this

I'm currenty running on a Gigabyte GA7-DXR+ with onboard RAID1 and the AMD 761 northbridge. I've had this board for nearly a year now so it's just about time for another upgrade.

LOL

Yeah that is such a poor system

Is the Gigabyte board any good, i have considered getting something of theirs

Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » Tue May 21, 2002 4:24 pm

It was one of the first DDR Athlon boards to come out. It has served me well though, no problems at all.

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Wed May 22, 2002 7:36 am

I've got a Gigabyte GA-7DXR, pretty much the same as Flibs' but without a + (what does that mean???

) and I've had absolutely no problems with it. Thumbs up from me...

Oh and Mr. Flibble, do you know how I can turm off the check that the board does during startup for RAID & UDMA100 devices, 'cos it adds a whole heap of time to my startup and I'm still in the dark ages of the ATA33 single-drive setup

Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » Wed May 22, 2002 2:17 pm

@Kameleon, I think the closest you can get to disabling the RAID controller is to set it to ATA100 mode. There's a jumper (JP54) next to IDE ports 3 and 4 that should set this. By default it's set to off though.

thantor3 · Post by **thantor3** » Wed May 22, 2002 6:20 pm

Originally posted by Mr Flibble
I've had this board for nearly a year now so it's just about time for another upgrade.

Just out of curiousity, what are you thinking of upgrading to?

Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » Wed May 22, 2002 6:37 pm

Originally posted by thantor3

Just out of curiousity, what are you thinking of upgrading to?

I haven't really decided yet. I'm currently loking at an Asus A7V333, 512MB PC2700 DDR memory and an Athlon XP 2000+. I'm defnintely staying with AMD, but there haven't been any major improvements to the Athlons for a little while now, so I'm kinda waiting to see what AMD come up with next. The big issue for me is an ATA RAID controller, and not many (or probably no) Intel platforms include this.

It's amazing how much I spend on this machine. Definitely an addiction.

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Thu May 23, 2002 6:59 am

Originally posted by Mr Flibble
@Kameleon, I think the closest you can get to disabling the RAID controller is to set it to ATA100 mode. There's a jumper (JP54) next to IDE ports 3 and 4 that should set this. By default it's set to off though.

OK, thanks. I just realised I haven't opened my computer up for months - that situation must be rectified immediately

And do you know what the + is that is the difference between your mobo and mine? Just curious...

Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » Thu May 23, 2002 11:18 am

Originally posted by Kameleon
And do you know what the + is that is the difference between your mobo and mine? Just curious...

The GA7-DXR has an ATA100 RAID controller whereas the + model has an ATA133 controller. Other than that they're identical.

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Thu May 23, 2002 11:20 am

Originally posted by Mr Flibble
The GA7-DXR has an ATA100 RAID controller whereas the + model has an ATA133 controller.

Oh no! I feel so inferior...*sniff*

Thanks