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TheNerd
Posts: 1025
Location: Israel
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i dont get it...why the free version (the one that you all are flamming..) is a crap???
and when does the Pro should be released?? and will it have any diffrences?
My System:
CPU : AMD "Barton" 2500+.
Memory : 768MB DDR PC2100.
GFX : Nvidia 6600GT DDR3 128MB , AGPx8
M\B: Gigabyte GA-7VT600P-RZ MotherBoard
Sound: AC97 Realteck 5.1 ALC655 - Audio.
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Nov 2005 20:52 Post subject: |
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Ermmmm, what is a PCI controller?
wonder if can make a switch on ur power cable that u can just flip to switch off power to ur drives... like chop power cables to ur cd/dvd drives and attach a switch
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Nov 2005 20:59 Post subject: |
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okies.... well, what is an ATA controller ? is it a device for switching off drives?
Intel Core2 Quad Q8300
Asus P5N-E SLI
Asus ENGTX 480
4GB 6400
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Nov 2005 21:03 Post subject: |
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| BloodAngel wrote: |
wonder if can make a switch on ur power cable that u can just flip to switch off power to ur drives... like chop power cables to ur cd/dvd drives and attach a switch |
No, you can't , IDE standard is not hot-swapable. If you'd go and do that, you'd expirience lockups, maybe even crashes, do that too many times and say bye-bye to your roms. The only standards that support hot-swap are Firewire, USB and SATA.
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Nov 2005 21:07 Post subject: |
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whats hot-swap? is this where u can just unplug ur power withotu having to shut down?
i have a SATA converter plug... may try plugging that into my IDE DVD RW drive and then try
Intel Core2 Quad Q8300
Asus P5N-E SLI
Asus ENGTX 480
4GB 6400
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| Posted: Thu, 17th Nov 2005 05:22 Post subject: |
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Hey, what about if you make all your IDE Optical drives into SCSI with IDE-to-SCSI adapter AEC7722, (http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20030130/scsi_adapters-02.html#aec7722_the_bridge_between_ide_and_scsi)
and SCSI card
Would this work?
Also about power switch for IDE drives, it'll work no problem but you can't do it while your PC is still running. Still easiest way to go, and how often do you people use your burners anyway.
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| Posted: Thu, 17th Nov 2005 06:54 Post subject: |
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| HeyDude wrote: | Hey, what about if you make all your IDE Optical drives into SCSI with IDE-to-SCSI adapter AEC7722, (http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20030130/scsi_adapters-02.html#aec7722_the_bridge_between_ide_and_scsi)
and SCSI card
Would this work?
Also about power switch for IDE drives, it'll work no problem but you can't do it while your PC is still running. Still easiest way to go, and how often do you people use your burners anyway. |
Well, that's like scratching your left year with your right hand through the back of your head: using a bridge and then an addon card. Why don't you go and read the forum properly before you post, the proposed method was to simply use a PCI IDE controller (if you're wondering, this appears in the device manager as a SCSI controller, you don't need to have SCSI written all over the controller's box), which costs about 20$ tops. Someone even managed to get it to work.Now go and read this
http://www.nfohump.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13157&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=484
http://www.nfohump.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13157&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=565
As for the switches, this might not work for everybody, as I said before, my system needed to have the IDE cable removed, removing only the power cable made it freeze at the "detecting IDE drives" screen.
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TheNerd
Posts: 1025
Location: Israel
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| Posted: Thu, 17th Nov 2005 11:55 Post subject: |
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Frant
King's Bounty
Posts: 24636
Location: Your Mom
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| Posted: Tue, 22nd Nov 2005 01:34 Post subject: |
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Okay, this has to be solved somehow...
I can run starforce, securom & safedisc games without disconnecting or hiding anything. (x3, ufo, nfs:mw etc.)
The only factor I have found so far is that I've got a board with the nforce3 chipset, and the drivers I use with my dvd-burner is called nvatabus.sys, the ones coming with nforce 5.10 drivers.
Can people post which chipset their board is using and whether they need to unplug drives, hide units or can mount and run with dt4?
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
"The sky was the color of a TV tuned to a dead station" - Neuromancer
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| Posted: Mon, 28th Nov 2005 03:39 Post subject: |
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| Scyphe wrote: | Okay, this has to be solved somehow...
I can run starforce, securom & safedisc games without disconnecting or hiding anything. (x3, ufo, nfs:mw etc.)
The only factor I have found so far is that I've got a board with the nforce3 chipset, and the drivers I use with my dvd-burner is called nvatabus.sys, the ones coming with nforce 5.10 drivers.
Can people post which chipset their board is using and whether they need to unplug drives, hide units or can mount and run with dt4? |
Here using dual sata 2 socket 939 chipset norhbridge : ULi/ALi M1689 Northbridge: AMD Hammer IMC, Southbridge : Uli/ALi M1563. Only with scct lower number of sf ) i've to disconnect my IDE 2 manualy in my bios works fine here, and some other games, thus this works always here disabling ide in bios, but the weirdest thing is the with most of the games i don't have to shut down my channel 2 in my bios, but can play the game just only mounting in daemon tools 4 without any tools or whatever, even with the highist sf numbers 
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si110
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Location: Hobart,Australia.
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| Posted: Mon, 28th Nov 2005 11:02 Post subject: |
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Unplugging prob solved,got external enclosure for optical drive of ebay, cost less then a pack of smokes.
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