On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Trent Piepho <xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It's a sil3124 PCI-X SATA II card that is extemely fussy. I can only get > to work if I have every other PCI card in my computer in a few specific > configurations. If I add the bt848 card, it won't work. If I *remove* my > sound card it won't work. If I put the SATA card in another slot it won't > work. If I move my cx88 HD-5500 card to another slot it won't work. If I > install the cx88 HD-3000 card in place of the HD-5500 it won't work. > > Only problem with the cheap VIA PCI SATA I card I'm using is that it has > much lower performance than the sil card when it works. I just need a new > computer, keeping this dual athlon system from 2001 working is getting too > hard. Faster Athlon-MP CPUs are insanely expensive on ebay. No PCI-E > slots for modern SATA or graphics cards. Doesn't work with AGP 8x. Won't > boot unless I go through a magic sequence of turning it on and off in quick > sequence. And I'm sick of messing with the closed source nvidia driver > that keeps getting worse and worse with each revision. I have a friend who was in the same boat not too long ago but he wound up saying forget it and built a new system. Well, kept the old dvd burner, psu, case, mouse, keyboard, monitor. Basically just bought a new mainboard + cpu + ram. I can say he's very happy now and spent < $150. Maybe it's time to retire your old box to a file or email server. ;) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
