TechKnight
Platinum Member
I've just had an Iwill DBS100 Dual Pentium II/III slot 1 motherboard that died on me. Well, it didn't actually die, it's just that the slot for the 2nd processor stopped working. I've tried different CPUs already and I think it's time to get a new motherboard.
Anyways, with that being said, I need a recommendation on a good dual processor motherboard. This motherboard needs to have the following:
1. Onboard SCSI port to support a 9.1GB Seagate Cheetah HD (68-pin wide)
2. Phoenix PICOBios with X-Boot or something that addresses this issue: Multiple Promise Ultra 66 Adapters
3. Support for standard PC100 SDRAM with ECC error checking (I have 1GB of this stuff)
4. Pentium III, Duron, Athlon processor based. Please no P4s... they're too expensive. (I prefer slot 1 for P3 since I have a pair of P3 500Mhz)
5. AGP Slot
The reason why I have such specific request is that this sytem has 4 plextor burners. I plan to attach two of the burners to the onboard IDE ports (primary and secondary) and I plan to install two Promise Ultra66 cards and have each of the remaining burners attached into each of the Ultra66 cards (PCI slot have a limitation of ATA33 so one PCI slot is too slow to transfer data to two burners) The Ultra66 promise cards have an issue with having more than one "bootable" adapter in the system where it confuses the BIOS on which device to boot off of so that's why I need a BIOS that can detect all the devices that have their own BIOS and let me choose which one to boot from.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Anyways, with that being said, I need a recommendation on a good dual processor motherboard. This motherboard needs to have the following:
1. Onboard SCSI port to support a 9.1GB Seagate Cheetah HD (68-pin wide)
2. Phoenix PICOBios with X-Boot or something that addresses this issue: Multiple Promise Ultra 66 Adapters
3. Support for standard PC100 SDRAM with ECC error checking (I have 1GB of this stuff)
4. Pentium III, Duron, Athlon processor based. Please no P4s... they're too expensive. (I prefer slot 1 for P3 since I have a pair of P3 500Mhz)
5. AGP Slot
The reason why I have such specific request is that this sytem has 4 plextor burners. I plan to attach two of the burners to the onboard IDE ports (primary and secondary) and I plan to install two Promise Ultra66 cards and have each of the remaining burners attached into each of the Ultra66 cards (PCI slot have a limitation of ATA33 so one PCI slot is too slow to transfer data to two burners) The Ultra66 promise cards have an issue with having more than one "bootable" adapter in the system where it confuses the BIOS on which device to boot off of so that's why I need a BIOS that can detect all the devices that have their own BIOS and let me choose which one to boot from.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
