a7v266-e

[littlegreenmen13]

based off of the outstanding things i have read on this forum i decided to use the a7v266-e motherboard for my new pt computer. just one question...which is the best pci slot to plug the digi card ito so i dont get any irq conflicts? thank you.

[Allen Hallada]

Plug it into PC slot 3, (not including the AGP video slot). Hook your hard drives to the Promise ATA controller in parallel, each to their own port, with the system drive on port A. Print out IRQ settings when finished in Device Manager.
Good luck
Allen [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

[littlegreenmen13]

2 question:
1)won't hooking the hard drives to the promise controller put them in radi?
2)how do i print our my irq settings, and which one do i want the digi to be?
thanks as always

[Mark_Knecht]

Hi,
You won't be a RAID system until you load RAID software. That won't be a problem for you. Just hook each drive to a separate controller with indepedent cables and you'll be fine.

In Device Manager use the print button on the bottom right.

Mark

[littlegreenmen13]

one more question...i'm tring to enable the dma setting on my hard drives, but there is no option to adjust this setting. i looked on my old computer and found where it was, did the same thing on the new one, and nothing. is this that importnat? if so, how should i fix it? thank you as always.

[Allen Hallada]

If you are using the onboard Promise controller, I don't think that option is available or needed. I saw a report on the A7V266E against the rest of the KT266a chipset motherboards, and when they utilized the onboard Promise controller as an ATA100 it improved performance 10-20%. What is important is that you use two ATA100 ribbon cables on those two seperate drives. The old Asus boards only came with one. I would check to see that you have two with this new board.
That is worth it.
Good luck.
Allen [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]