Has anyone tried putting a RAID Card or a LAN Card in the PCI Express slot?
If so, does it share an IRQ with anything else or cause any problems?
I'm asking because I'm thinking about getting either one of these:
a)
3ware 9650SE-8LPML (PCI Express 4x) SATA II Controller Card
b)
Rosewill RC-401 10/100/1000Mbps PCI-Express Gigabit LAN Adapter
Ideally, I'd like to get a PCI Express combo card that has both SATA RAID and Gigabit LAN, but I haven't been able to find such a card...
I'm using this motherboard with XP Home SP2, WMP 10, Beyond TV 4.4,
1GB DDR 333 (2x 512 MB), Core 2 Duo E6400 Conroe.
I have (Four) 320GB IDE Hard Drives.
I have two 320GB SATA Hard Drives.
Here's what I have in the slots:
[AGP] GeForce 6600.
[PCI Express] Nothing.
[PCI] Hauppauge PVR-500 (Rev E492).
[PCI] Hauppauge PVR-500 (Rev E492).
[PCI] Hauppauge PVR-500 (Rev E492).
[PCI] Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS.
By the way, this Motherboard likes to reboot all on it's own when running Beyond TV 4.6, but so far, Beyond TV 4.4 seems stable.
I think it's been mentioned here before, but It appears as though I can't do RAID Striping with this board on the SATA Ports.
There isn't an option for it in the RAID Setup BIOS Thing.
Also, one core is running at 2.13 GHz, but the other core is running at 2.05GHz.
I dunno why...
A point of intrest is that there is a capacitor on the motherboard near the bottom PCI Slot that prevents insertion of the Hauppauge PVR-500 Card.
There's a way to get around it with Rev E
392 of the card
Ya just have to remove the metal plate and twist the Red RCA Audio Jack off, essentially breaking that port off.
However, you can't do that with the recent revision of this card, E
492, because they changed the plastic part that holds the RCA Audio and Composite Video Ports to the board, it's now one solid piece with no give.
Edited To Add:
I Forgot to mention some of the details of my setup.
I'm using a
Cooler Master CM Stacker STC-T01-UW Case,
(I had to buy two extra 4-in-3 Drive Modules seprately from a diffrent online store)
and an Antec TRUEPOWERII TPII-550 ATX12V 550W Power Supply.
My BIOS Version is 2.40.
Should I roll it back to 2.10 even though I don't want to do any over-clocking?