Vince Maskeeper
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I'm ready to give up on my mobo and get another but I'm not sure who to look to for a stable athlon based mobo. I have mine which is an Abit (along with the 2 others I just built)- and all of them are a bit sketchy physically.
I have an EPOX for my HTPC, but it took me 3 different OS changes before it would not lose the NIC (and I still have audio drop out problems).
So is anyone making a decent Athlon Mobo, but because of my audio card it must be AMD 760 (762), VIA KX-133 or VIA KT-133 chipsets (cannot be AMD 750)-- I think 266/266a chipsets are fine as well?
I also have need for extra IDE controllers- does anyone know of Mobos that offer 4 controllers (the Abit has 2 and then 2 highpoint raid controllers which support extra IDE drives)---
Does anyone know if if the Microstar K7T266 Pro2-RU or Pro2-R Promise RAID controller can be used as regular extra IDEs for drives (support for ATAPI??)... Can I hook a CD drive to them??
-Vince
I have an EPOX for my HTPC, but it took me 3 different OS changes before it would not lose the NIC (and I still have audio drop out problems).
So is anyone making a decent Athlon Mobo, but because of my audio card it must be AMD 760 (762), VIA KX-133 or VIA KT-133 chipsets (cannot be AMD 750)-- I think 266/266a chipsets are fine as well?
I also have need for extra IDE controllers- does anyone know of Mobos that offer 4 controllers (the Abit has 2 and then 2 highpoint raid controllers which support extra IDE drives)---
Does anyone know if if the Microstar K7T266 Pro2-RU or Pro2-R Promise RAID controller can be used as regular extra IDEs for drives (support for ATAPI??)... Can I hook a CD drive to them??
-Vince