A few questions

[TnT]

Just installed an Athlon XP 1800+, ECS K7S6A and 256 MB of Crucial PC2100 RAM. One small step for man, one giant leap from my Celeron 466.

Anyway here are my questions:

1) I have a Promise Ultra100 TX2, and before I had all my HDs on the card, but now I moved 2 to the mobo. Is there any easy way for me to have the HD light go on for the mobo and the card?

2) My trusty Blackout Buster can't seem to handle my new parts. I'm using the same PS, but I can only boot when I have it plugged into a standard surge protector. Looks like I'll have to get another UPS for the computer and use the BB for the other devices. Anyways what UPS do you guys use? I'm gonna pick one up when I get a new PS (Antec 430 True Power).

3) I've always wondered this, but what are all the tmp files Visual Studio 6 creates in c:\windows upon windows loading? They are empty files (data in the actual file name I believe). 2 files are created everytime, and since I reboot a lot it builds up. No problem deleting them, just curious if anyone knows what they actually are for.

[TnT]

Oh, and another one that I forgot

4) Is there any difference between brand names of rounded cables? Is it just packaging that's costing $1 more for one brand over another?

[az]

4: There still are cheap cables around without proper shielding. 80-pin cables have 80 wires, because 40 of them are used as shielding, to prevent signals on one wire affecting the signals on adjacent ones. some cheap rounded cables are just 80-pin cables cut to pieces, so obviously there's nothing between the 40 data wires to shield them from one another. A properly done rounded cable uses better shielded wires, like coaxial wires, using the outer copper layer as shielding.

AZ

[az]

I hope I do make sense, I should really have gone to bed hours ago

AZ

[TnT]

Yeah that made sense. Thanks.

[GT98]

Any reason why you moved the HDD off the Promise controller onto the Motherboard IDE Controller?


Scott

[TnT]

I have 5 hard drives, 1 for vid capture, 1 for files (music, video, user, etc), 1 for windows, and 2 for Linux (soon to be installed). My old mobo was ATA33, but this new one is 100 like the Promise card, so it doesn't really matter which ones I put where. Although I'm thinking it may be better to put the vid capture one on the mobo to avoid PCI usage by other cards?

I guess it may come down to which ones I need to tell if the HD is going or not, eh?