I'm retiring my P2B motherboard after many years of good service and
upgrading to a P4C800-E. I currently have a Adaptec 2940U SCSI Card,
Hauppauge WinTV card & a SB Live 5.1 Platinum plugged in to the old
motherboard. Will all these old card behave with the new motherboard,
the SCSI & WinTV card are about 6 years old.
Thanks
In terms of software drivers, be aware that some vendor (not Microsoft)
drivers for IDE (PCI PATA or Southbridge SATA) hardware show up as
"SCSI" devices. This can cause problems if you want to select a
SCSI disk as the startup disk, in that you may end up booting from
the SATA, rather than a 2940U disk. The 2940U disk should still be
OK as a data disk. If your new motherboard has SATA or SATA RAID,
that might be a slight issue. A simple workaround is to boot from
an IDE disk connected to the Southbridge.
The Hauppauge cards have historically had issues with PCI timing.
They also move a lot of data, moving many megabytes per second while
you watch TV or record TV to disk. There is no way of guaranteeing
what kind of experience you will have when you move it. I have one
machine my WinTV works in, and one where it crashes after a while.
SoundBlaster cards should be put in a slot with an unshared physical
interrupt line. Looking in the IRQ table page of the P4C800-E
manual, slot 1 shared the same interrupt signal as slot 5. If you
put the SoundBlaster in slot 1, next to the AGP card, AND leave
slot 5 blank, you should be OK. If you want to use a blank slot 1
for cooling enhancement for the AGP slot, then put the SoundBlaster
in slot 5.
Good luck,
Paul
