Ok curious what kind of problem are yall having with the Abi

i have a Abit KT7A Raid Motherboard too but so far no problems but that doesnt mean anything i know. right now it has a old maxtor 8. 4 gig DMA 33 5400 rpm on it and i am in win2k pro. i know i need to upgrade my HD and i will But if i added a ibm 75 gxp series 30 gig would i have problems ? like using maybe the ra ...

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i have a Abit KT7A Raid Motherboard too but so far no problems but that doesnt mean anything i know.
right now it has a old maxtor 8.4 gig DMA 33 5400 rpm on it and i am in win2k pro.
i know i need to upgrade my HD and i will
 
But if i added a ibm 75 gxp series 30 gig would i have problems ? like using maybe the raid ide controllers like either ide 3 or 4 just for it to have its own channel or should i put it on ide 1 no matter what
cause i know you can use the raid like normal ide controllers and not like raid
 
please reply
thanks

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put it on the raid controller
i have all my drives on separate cables/channels and it makes things way faster

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but only Hds at ATA66/100 can go on those 2 raid controllers right
not CD-RWs , cdrom , etc
but i got a ATA 33 maxtor 8.4 gig HD so when i put it on there it was slower
like lagged
i got to get myself a ibm 30 gig 75 gxp series soon which is like $175 or less
but i had to spend $30.50 for cooling case fans to get a good temp so my HD wouldnt burn up hehe
well it wont burn it
 
btw right my old ATA 33 maxtor 8.4 HD is on ide 1 cause only ide 1 and 2 support ATA 33/66/100

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Where do I start with my problems with this board, win2k Pro, Geforce, and a vortex2.
 
First. NO Sound in games. Sometimes I might have some sound with windows, but only once in a game did I have sound. That was GPL. But it runs like crap and just stutters.
 
Second. My geforce card is useless too. Every game I run, the graphics stutter, I have these huge white tears flickering in the lower part of the screen.
 
Third, Sometime windows will not shut down. It just hangs. So I have to use the power button to get anywhere.
 
4th. My sisoft sandra scores are very low when compared to the same results of win98se. 3200 to 2700. I have an image rendering program that I use to benchmark the OS's. This image takes 53 seconds with win2k. 43 with 98se. WTF??
 
Never had any problems with my 440BX board. Not a one. But with this Kt133a, it is a whole new ball game. But what is really interesting is that everything is peachy with windows98SE. I dont wannt to resort to that POS OS, but I have to to get things to work right.
 
I am thinking somewhere there is an conflict with something. I am thinking this to be the vortex2 card maybe. Anyone??

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wow
i didnt have any of those problems yet on my win2k pro i dont think
but i do have a old maxtor 8.4 DMA 33 5400 rpm HD right now
and i got a voodoo 3 2000 pci video card
and even isa sound card but not forever soon getting a pci one
i will just have to see hehe
like when i get my ibm 75 gxp series 30 gig 7200 rpm ATA/100 HD
and pci sound card and nvidia video card i think cause 3dfx isnt going to be making anymore drivers but hey this video card is fine for now.
or maybe get a ATI video card with DDR ram
who knows
just depends on the money i got and stuff
 
i did notice one thing but i think its cause i shouldnt done it
when i put my slow old maxtor 8.4 gig ATA 33 on a ATA/100 ide cable by it self on ide 3 or 4 it like lagged or something cause i would get freezes in my system but once i put it on ide 1 it was fine
but i read and it said the ide 3 and ide 4 which is raid too is only for ATA 66/100 hehe
and ide 1 and ide 2 ATA 33/66/100
so now i know why i think
 
i love my motherboard so far
may try Asus if i ever build another maybe
but maybe not