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Well you can get P-III/667 Slot-1 CPUs for $20 at Justdeals.com

As long as performance is close, I stick with Nvidia for their drivers.
One too many driver nightmares over the years with ATI!!

You can get Slot-1 666Mhz P-IIIs for $20 each at:

www.justdeals.com

Based on my other Dual P-III boards with Promise ATA100 RAID Lite onboard, here is the deal: 1) they do not support "JBOD" mode (just-a-bunch-of drives) 2) they require a matching pair of drives jumpered to "single/master" 3) only one drive per channel & regular cables Note that a "drive select" cab...

I just got a Geforce 5700 Ultra card from NewEgg for $149US. Knowing that this mod is available for it makes me so glad. I'll be burning it in for a few months first though on my: ACORP 6A815EBD Dual P-III with VIA chipset, 2x512CL2-Mushkin DDR RAM, (2) 1.266/512K Tualatin @110MHz with Lin-Lin adapt...

the ones I've got so far were Maxtor 80GB/7200/8MB.
I believe they will be either Maxtor, WD, or Seagate 90%+ of the time.
If they were no-name drives, the manufacturer would not care about having a "white label". Top tier brands don't want it to be known that they can be had at these low prices.

I just checked the prices today & WOW big drop here:
http://store.yahoo.com/justdeals/harddrives.html

Many other excellent price products avalable - new & reconditioned.

You should only let this board go to someone who will try and get DUAL TUALATIN CPUs running with it on stacked PowerLeap/Lin-Lin adapters.
Anyone up to this challenge?? I've got the adapters, but the CPU not cheap enough yet for me.

What were the BIOS settings when you installed XP Pro??

I saw in another post that you had acheived dual P-III/1100MHz@110FSB. Yours must be the most powerful BP6 running on the planet!! Have you lost one of the these CPUs? If so -SAD! I have (4) of these CPUs at this time - two in a Dual ACORP MB, one in a BP6, and one in a 2nd ACORP waiting to go dual ...

The external case+USB2 interface electronics device you use to mount your IDE drive will determine what the size limit if the drive must be. The kits may have a firmware upgraade or S/W driver to install that lets you go with the newest high GB drives.

Loading the Adaptec "USB Control Utility" that came with the card tells me my computer has two USB hubs, and that the "HubA" is the ABIT BP6 Root Hub Manufacturer: Intel and the "HubB" is the Adaptec USB2Connect 3100B_LP Mfg.: Adaptec, Inc. I think that newer versions of USB2 cards are now circulati...

rrledford -- you've had no problems with your usb v2.0 drive + card? i'm almost concerned the bottleneck wouldnt be on the card or the drive, but on the bp6... any limitations on speed and/or size? thanks for the input so far guys :) Well I have only connected WLAN adapters, mouse, KB, wireles KB-m...

External Hdisk storage means USB 2.0 (or firewire) & you may want to think twice about what card you get for adding USB 2.0 to the BP6. After giving up on two generic brand USB 2.0 cards because of devices disappearing and not initializing, I finally got an Adaptec card. Far and away the best USB2.0...

I assume it ran some time after the initial XP install. How Long before blue screen started? What changed? To what controller is the Hdisk connected? Will it boot in safe mode? Can you boot from the WinXP CDROM? Can you read the blue screen error code? Is it disk related? Try using a different Hdisk...

The newest variant of this virus does not even need an attachment!!
Merely reading the E-mail will infect your PC, but only if it has not been patched & glued to the latest rickety level of what MS stinks is secure - ha ha ha !

use a Promise Ultra IDE 133 TX2 controller.
your life will improve when the HPT366 IS NO LONGER PART OF IT.
so will the speed + useable capacity of your 160GB drive

Add Adaptec USB 2.0 card & remove (PCI?) modem - Switch to USB modem.
Buy $24 CoolMax CD-509-U2 external USB2.0 drive enclosure(s) 5.25'/3.5" & run the HPT366 device(s) on USB2.0
available at => Directron.com

If time=money the HPT366 will soon make you very poor.

The only worthwhile thihg to do with this HPT366 is to disable it totally. add another PCI card if you need to connect so mant devices.

CatDaddy! wrote:Actually I use a Promise Card and Drivers for my 250gb drive.

I'm overclocked to a 87mhz fsb, about 467mhz. 2.1volts

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Have you tried the Promise card in different PCI slots?
You might have an issue with IRQ sharing.

Will this board handle the 2.0GHz/400Hz FSB Xenons that are ~$120 each. Much mor attractive at <$450 for MB+2CPUs. Where in the Xenon line of CPUs does the Hyperthreading kick in?

I bought a 160 gig Samsung drive instead. It works on both on-board IDE and HPT366. But I am having major problems installing Win2k pro on it. I tried that RV-bios but it won't work... Your data and your labor investment in the 160G of high performance storage deserve something better than the HPT3...

Heh, you are correct, but award bioses are so braindead that they won't continue to the next controller in search for the bootable devices. And even if it did, the promise controller is a Raid 5 serial ata model so nothing to change there. Well, the Promise driver with MS WHQL certification arrived...

yutani, Hey, I just got the Promise S150-SX4 controller with (3) maxtor SATA 160GB drives too! I'm trying to get it to work in a Dell 600SC server. I will be running Win2K3 Sm. Business server on it, but I decided to first test the H/W with a Win-XP/Pro install. So far, my disk performance results a...

What happens if the Hdisk(s) on the Promise card are set with FDSIK to be not bootable & the SCSI disk to be bootable? I've forgotten to make a drive bootable & then the error comes up "No boot device.." Doesn't the the BP6 continue to look further & find the SCSI boot drive? Or, is the SCSi card BI...