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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pae who wrote (9525)	12/6/1999 5:15:00 AM
From: Clarence Dodge	Respond to of 14778

Can anyone recommend an affordable SCSI diagnostic utility?

To: pae who wrote (9525)	12/7/1999 9:18:00 AM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

I was unable to get two NICs to work in my BX6-2 system. No matter how I configured it, I had IRQ conflicts which I just couldn't seem to get resolved, even though I had a free IRQ. The Abit boards have a bus-mastering problem also (which may in fact be the cause of the IRQ problem). I have never found a clear statement of which slots can be bus-master slots. Both my NICs are busmaster NICs, as well as my SCSI card and graphics card and I suppose the sound card (SB-Live). I seem to remember that 4 busmaster interfaces is the max (is that in the PCI spec somewhere?). An AGP busmaster card usurps slot 1 as a busmaster slot, I think. Anyhow my second NIC always ended up with the same IRQ as something else, no matter how I finagled it. Probably fighting for that last busmaster slot <G>. Come to think of it, at the time I had two free IRQs. The answers could probably be gotten from Aopen chat rooms, but I ended up using a different solution after suffering from BSOD-fatigue. My DSL modem can be configured to act like a router on the local lan and a bridge on the WAN. It's a Flowpoint, not a Webramp, but from what I gather it's essentially the same idea. This has worked like a charm, btw, and I sure like the idea of having the solution outside of the PC boxes. Spots