Hi, all.
I recently changed my motherboard from Asus CUBX (P3 BX chipset) to Albatron PX845PE Pro II with P4 2.4GHz (533FSB). I'm pretty happy with it. Everything seems so fast compared to my old P3 box. Also, Albatron's MB has an exceptional quality.
By the way, one thing I miss was, it seems there's no "Advanced Setting" tab (which shows the ATA mode of each device) available for both Primary and Secondary IDE Channel in Device Manager (I'm using Windows XP Professional). The IDE Controller is listed as "Intel 82801DB Ultra ATA Controller" and I installed the newest Intel Chipset Software from Albatron's site (which has the same version number as Intel's newest version).
My old motherboard used CMD chipset for IDE Controller and it always listed "Advanced Setting" so that I can check/modify ATA mode settings (UDMA/PIO stuff). My other computer has SiS chipset (for P3) and it also has the setting.
Am I missing something or it's just Intel's driver? I tried benchmark using HDTech and it seems drivers are running in correct mode though (sustaining ~40MB/s all the time, the drives are Seagate Barracuda IV and V).
Since it is my first 845PE chipset machine, I don't have any experience on this. Could you somebody tell me?
Thanks!
I recently changed my motherboard from Asus CUBX (P3 BX chipset) to Albatron PX845PE Pro II with P4 2.4GHz (533FSB). I'm pretty happy with it. Everything seems so fast compared to my old P3 box. Also, Albatron's MB has an exceptional quality.
By the way, one thing I miss was, it seems there's no "Advanced Setting" tab (which shows the ATA mode of each device) available for both Primary and Secondary IDE Channel in Device Manager (I'm using Windows XP Professional). The IDE Controller is listed as "Intel 82801DB Ultra ATA Controller" and I installed the newest Intel Chipset Software from Albatron's site (which has the same version number as Intel's newest version).
My old motherboard used CMD chipset for IDE Controller and it always listed "Advanced Setting" so that I can check/modify ATA mode settings (UDMA/PIO stuff). My other computer has SiS chipset (for P3) and it also has the setting.
Am I missing something or it's just Intel's driver? I tried benchmark using HDTech and it seems drivers are running in correct mode though (sustaining ~40MB/s all the time, the drives are Seagate Barracuda IV and V).
Since it is my first 845PE chipset machine, I don't have any experience on this. Could you somebody tell me?
Thanks!
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