Has anyone else had a problem with their raid setup after adding in one more pci card? I have a two drive raid 0 array setup with each drive as the master on IDE3 and IDE4 respectively. All is well until I add in another PCI card to the system. The working configuration includes an AGP Radeon A-I-W, Intel Pro 100+ NIC, and a SB Live X-Gamer. When I attempt to add in any other PCI card that I have, the system will boot fine but will lock up if scandisk or norton disk doctor is run on the raid array. (Again, this works just fine before adding the 3rd pci card in.) I have checked for IRQ conflicts, there are none. In fact, one of the cards that I have tried is a Voodoo2 card, which does not require an IRQ. I am at a loss to explain this one- as a workaround, connecting the raid as master/slave on IDE3 works fine, but I am not thrilled with the reduction in drive performance this causes. I would much rather have it work as master/master (which is how Abit and Highpoint both detail as the proper way to make the connections.) Aside
from this (somewhat nitpicky) problem the board is running quick and stable. I should also mention that this occurs with the bios defaults loaded, as well as when the bios is 'tweaked' for performance. Thanks for any info!
System specs:
Win 98 SE (ACPI enabled)
Via 4.25a drivers where necessary
Thunderbird 1100 (not overclocking)
Abit KT7 Raid (WW Bios, 1.03b1 HPT370 bios and drivers)
256MB Crucial PC133 CAS2
Antec PP403x power supply
ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder AGP
Intel Pro 100+ Management NIC (PCI #2)
3dfx Voodoo2 (PCI #3)
SB Live X-gamer (PCI #4)
Maxtor 51536U3 (15 GB UDMA 66, IDE 1)
2 Maxtor 5T040H4 (40 GB UDMA 100, IDE 3)
from this (somewhat nitpicky) problem the board is running quick and stable. I should also mention that this occurs with the bios defaults loaded, as well as when the bios is 'tweaked' for performance. Thanks for any info!
System specs:
Win 98 SE (ACPI enabled)
Via 4.25a drivers where necessary
Thunderbird 1100 (not overclocking)
Abit KT7 Raid (WW Bios, 1.03b1 HPT370 bios and drivers)
256MB Crucial PC133 CAS2
Antec PP403x power supply
ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder AGP
Intel Pro 100+ Management NIC (PCI #2)
3dfx Voodoo2 (PCI #3)
SB Live X-gamer (PCI #4)
Maxtor 51536U3 (15 GB UDMA 66, IDE 1)
2 Maxtor 5T040H4 (40 GB UDMA 100, IDE 3)