First post, by DataPro
I have a Pentium 166Mhz based HP Vectra 500 model 562 (D3742A) (Intel Triton 430FX chipset - BIOS Phoenix v.GJ.07.18)
PC Mag review here
I put a IDEtoCF adapter with two slot with a 4Gb CF card in each.
It works great with DOS and nice with Win98SE. Nevertheless, speed is not great (7.5Mo/s max 5Mo/s average)
I would like to boost the machine under Win98SE.
I tryed to install the PCI to SATA card (Ali M5283 chip). But I got a ressource conflict in BIOS even with all other PCI Cards (USB, Matrox Graphics) removed and integrated IDE controller disabled.
Now, I am waiting a Abit Hotrod 100, I bought last Friday.
I hope using PATA with DMA wil boost disk transfer compared to the intel 82371FB (PIIX) controller.
Do you think I can expect speed improvements ?
HP Vectra 562 P166Mhz/256Ko L2 cache/Triton 430FX - 112Mo RAM - 2x 32Go+64Go CF Card - Matrox G2 8Mo - SB AWE64 ISA (PnP) + Roland MT-32 & M-GS64 (SC-88) & JV-1010 - Nec USB 2.0 PCI - Promise Ultra100 TX2 - Hama multicard reader