Help choosing socket a board w/ atapi SATA support

DBJordan

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Mar 30, 2005
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I have a Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 sata and Plextor 716SA drive. When I got them, I got a Promise PCI card (for the NCQ) that has caused nothing but problems -- my computer now blue screens everytime I disconnect a firewire or usb external drive, my Plextor drive only works in the half-speed PIO mode. So I'm going to ditch the PCI card and just get a new motherboard with onboard sata.

I'd love get a 939 board w/ a new CPU and PCIe graphics card-- but that's way too much to spend right now, so I really need a Socket A board that will support my sata hard disk and plextor drive, but I'm not sure which Socket A boards have atapi sata. Any suggestions?

Other things that would be great:
- firewire (I have a PCI card for that at the moment)
- spdif coax digital 5.1 output (I already have all the cables in place for this)

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
 

DBJordan

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Mar 30, 2005
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Does anyone have the AN7 board and the Plextor 716SA drive? I just went out and picked up an Abit NF7-S board and it has the same problem as my PCI card did. So I've got to return this board (have about a week) and this time I'd like to get a board that others have gotten to work with my particular drive model so I can be sure it will work.

I'm sure the drive itself is good -- I tried another drive like it and it had the same problem, so I don't think it's my particular drive that's bad.

Thanks for any help.