Pcchips M830L V3.1

  • Thread starter Thread starter RJK
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....belated thanx Glen, ...just the job, ...I'm having "fun" with this old
Pcchips board based PC and installing XP Home ed. SP2 OEM.

A word of warning to anyone reinstalling one of these, the "latest"
motherboard bus-master? IDE drivers for the SiS 735 chipset, from
http://www.sis.com/download/ are definately NOT advisable, MUCH BETTER to
leave the ones in from XP's driver library. The SiS ones guarantee (at
least on this particular hadware mix), that one cannot copy directories and
files from one IDE hd to another (hd's 0 and 1 master/slave on same ribbon,
on IDE port 1 ...or should that be port 0 ?!), and the same file copy errors
occur trying to copy directories from dvd+r to hard disk. That was
compounded by the "older" Panasonic slot loading dvd-rom drive not happy
reading my dvd r's - even the dark purple ones !

I could have sworn that I'd used IDE drivers from SiS on this machine during
the past couple of years and they were fine but, my guess is that they have
been revised and the portion in the download for the 735 chipset has been
upset !


regards, Richard
 
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