: > Yes, but that's the same as with my Abit, Award Bios but
: > of course the two are different. The ECS uses a Phoenix.
:
: Did you actually install XP on a drive on the Promise in the Abit ?
Yup...no problems at all, no hickups or anything. I didnt even have to
press F6 to identify the drivers. Everything was fantastic.
: > And autostreamer will convert an ISO to a readible CD along with the
SP?
:
: Yes, it effectively installs the SP onto the install CD and
: produces a new CD that has the SP installed on the CD.
Ok, good to know...I saw no mention of ISO in the pics and the online
instructions
:
: >>>> I'd run a diagnostic on the drive with it attached to the Promise
card to
: >>>>> check if the drive is working fine on the Promise card and if it
: >>>>> isnt, according to the diagnostic, fix that problem before going
: >>>>> any further.
:
: >>> I dont recall seeing this option anywhere...
:
: >> Yeah, its not an option, you need to download the diag
: >> for the hard drive from the hard drive manufacturer's web
: >> site or run it online with some hard drive manufacturers.
:
: > Done that...the Powermax floppy didnt recognize my
: > controller or the drive while my maxtor was attached to it.
:
: Try one of the other decent diags like Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test
: or Seagate's. Some do a better job of finding the drive on a card
: instead of on the motherboard ports
You mean DFT? Yup, tried that that too. I used this before to quiet
down my Maxtor cuz it was annoying accessing info. Works well, but didnt
help me this time.
: > I dont like that a 2.2 CPU costing as much as P4 3.4
w/hyperthreading.
: > I'll really notice the diffence in speed when doing video rendering.
:
: No you wont
Really? Convince me and I may just take the plunge, after I buy a new
tv set for Xmas, probably Plasma.
: > Maybe I should look at Gigabyte. I read where others have
: > regretted getting the Asus P5W DH Deluxe (Intel 975x chipset).
:
: I dont like Gigabytes much myself, the ship too early and you
: end up with lots of revisions of the motherboard and bios.
Ok good, narrowing down the choices. Which ones do you like? Asus,
Abit, MSI?
:
: I've got a sufficiently warped sense of humor that I might even piss
myself laughing |-)
:
: I did when the Roman Catholic Church spent weeks deciding on a new
Pope,
: all that silly stuff about black and white smoke etc, and then once
they had
: finally decided on one silly senile old fart, the bugger went and died
on them
: within days, and they had to thru the entire rigmarole all over again.
Fortunately
: the catholic who told me about it at work one evening could see the
joke too |-)
That's too funny...I remember that Pope thing way back when. Of course,
I was young then and into Sci-Fi and conspiracy theories. I wish I
could laugh that hard to piss myself or come close to it . But, with my
kind of luck, it's pretty hard to laugh sometimes.