PCI slot shared with AGP. Put Firewire or network card there?

[Eug]

UPDATED:

Iwill works. Should I leave the NIC in the slot next to the AGP card? Or should I put the Iwill there? I don't want to move the Promise controller, and the sound card can't be moved (big@ss heatsink on it).



Bought a supposedly OHCI 1.0 compliant ST Lab Firewire card with a Lucent 1394A chipset. Plugged it in and... nothing. It was plugged in PCI slot 1 next to the AGP.

So I moved it to PCI 3 and... nothing. I tried the card both powered and unpowered. No dice. Reseated. Nothing.

I bought the card because it was inexpensive and came with a free cable, and I thought a Lucent chipset would be good. Stupid me.

Asus P2B with Celly 533A@880
Win 2000

AGP: Radeon LE--> DDR
PCI 1: Now has the Ethernet card. D-Link 538TX
PCI 2: Promise Ultra 66, with two drives. System boots off the Promise
PCI 3: Firewire card that is useless. (Ethernet card works fine here.)
PCI 4: Sound Blaster Live! Platinum.

I can do a direct exchange for an Iwill SIDE-eLink1394II card card which comes with no cable but which includes an OEM copy of Ulead Video Studio 5 which I probably won't use. (I'll stick with my Mac.) The Iwill has is OHCP 1.0 , 1394A, and PCI 2.2 compliant.

Or I can just bite the bullet and spend twice as much and get something like an Adaptec Fireconnect 4300 or D-Link or Pinnacle, etc. ST Lab is crap? Iwill? Others better? Aren't these all based on the same few chipsets anyway?

What do you suggest?

 

[Eug]

P.S. Nothing is plugged into the card, but I'd imagine that's irrelevant, since the OS should still see the controller regardless.

 

[John]

I use a 50.00 iogear PCI firewire (TI chipset, OHCI compliant) card and XP Pro loves it.

 

[Eug]

<< I use a 50.00 iogear PCI firewire (TI chipset, OHCI compliant) card and XP Pro loves it. >>


People have told me the TI chipsets are the most common.

What cards use what chipsets?

OEM: Lucent and VIA I've seen so far.
Apollo: VIA
Iwill: VIA
ATI: Lucent?

Pinnacle: ?
Adaptec: ?
D-Link: ?

That store carries ATI and Pinnacle too.

 

[Eug]

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[StormRider]

That's weird. I have a couple of firewire cards that use a Lucent chipset and all of my computers (ECS K7S5A, Gigabyte GA-5AX) had no trouble seeing it.

 

[Eug]

<< That's weird. I have a couple of firewire cards that use a Lucent chipset and all of my computers (ECS K7S5A, Gigabyte GA-5AX) had no trouble seeing it. >>



My new Iwill VIA chipset Firewire card seemed to install fine with no drivers. Now I just need the drive and card reader to see if it works. Has 2 ports in the back and one internal one, I guess for an internal IDE drive with bridge board or something. I do wonder if the other was a defective card though. I RMA'd it and they tested it there. It was recognized but then hung their computer.

Came with Ulead VideoStudio 5. Dunno if it's any good, and the current version is 6.

 

[Eug]

Hmmm... Come to think of it. I wonder if it's because I'm overclocking a bit.

I am running a Celly 533A at 880, which means the PCI bus is at 36.7 MHz.

 

[Eug]

Should I leave the NIC in the slot next to the AGP card? Or should I put the Iwill there? I don't want to move the Promise controller, and the sound card can't be moved (big@ss heatsink on it).