Know Your Systems

sinus

Just wondering what everyone was running...either at home or work?

ME: (self build - generic)
Celeron 800mhz
512mb RAM
2 x 5400 20gb Segate Baracuda HDD
LG dvd
Philips x8 CD-RW
Zip100
Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum w/ Live Drive (firewire/IR etc) *sweet*
dualboot win2000/RedHat 7.2
software: Maya4, 3DStudioMax4, Blender2.5, Cubasis VST, Photoshop5.5, Dreamweaver4

my machine is mainly used for soundrecording/animation....but with the soundblaster, EAX on games is sweet!

*I Love My Machine*

Wishlist:
Athlon XP1700+


Whats everyone else running?

steve-hosting36

Me has:

Encom Tower ATX Case 230W PSU
Intel D815EFV with Audio, Video & LAN
Intel Pentium III 1.4GHz 256k Cache (L/A)
2 x 512Mb PC133 SDRAM
1 x Western Digital HDD 80Gb 7200 UATA 133
CD ROM 52 Speed LG
3.5" 1.44Mb Standard Floppy Drive
On Board 10/100
ATI 32Mb Xpert 2000 PRO
Iiyama 19" FST VM 1451 (LS902UT)
Logitech Deluxe Keyboard
Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer
Windows XP Professional Ed. OEM
Microsoft Office XP Small Bus.Ed.

at work, and a hand built, custom fashioned PII 400 at home on it's last legs

Steve

Cake Fiend

Work:

CPU: AthlonXP 1900+
RAM: 256MB DDR
HDD: 40GB ATA66 7200RPM
GFX: GeForce 2 GTS
VDU: NEC MultiSync LCD1830 18" TFT sweetness
OS: WinXP Pro

Kairo

AthlonXP 1700
Abit KR7A-Raid
512mb DDR RAM
7200rpm 40gb Maxtor HDD
Pioneer 16x DVD
Freecom External CD-RW 4x
Geforce 3 Ti200
Sound Blaster Audigy Player
Realtek 10/100 NIC
MsIntelli Explorer Optical v3
MS Windows XP Pro (For Stuff), MS Windows 98 SE (For Games) Redhat Looonix 7.1 (Dunno what exactly for! )

Gerry

This has already been done, but anyway.

Work:

Dual p4 xeon 2.2ghz 512k L2 cache
Intel i860 motherboard w/firewire
1 gb pc800 rambus.
Fujitsu 37gb 10k scsi hdd (quieter than a seagate barracuda IV)
Integrated 3com 10/100 nic
Geforce2 QuadroMX
19" Sony Trinitron
Class dell keyboard and ms mouse

Home:
p3 600e @ 933 on abit be6-2 raid
512mb pc133 @ 155fsb cas2
ibm 120gxp 80gb and 75gxp 45gb
intel 10/100 pci nic.
Geforce2 GTS
Eicon diva pro 2.0 isdn ta
sblive value
19" Gericom flat crt (samsung dynaflat tube).

JustHalf

Ah well, here we go again

Home:
AMD Athlon 1GHz AXIA Thunderbird @ 1400MHz (10x140MHz FSB)
256MB PC133 SDRAM @ 140MHz (fastest settings)
ABIT KT7A-RAID (v1.1)
ASUS v8200 Deluxe GeForce 3
Western Digital 80Gb "Special Edition" (w/8MB cache) (WD800JB)
40Gb Quantum Fireball AS
AOpen 16x DVD-ROM drive
Creative SoundBlaster Live! Player 1024
Realtek 10/100 NIC
Sony G420 19" Monitor (w/USB hub and dual video input)
Creative Soundworks Inspire 5300 speakers (w/subwoofer)
Microsoft Natural Keyboard
Microsoft Optical Wheelmouse
Microsoft Sidewinder Joystick
Windows 2000 SP2

I should be getting a new P4 in two months.

Rew

Home:
AMD Athlon 1.2ghz (clocked to 1.4)
Abit KT7A-RAID mbo
768mb PC133 SDRAM
GeForce 256 32meg
21" Eizo monitor
some crap harddisk that i have to replace
SB Live
3Com 10/100 nic
Win2k (for games) and SuSE Linux 8.0

Work:
(technically we are still building this but anyway)
Dual AMD Athlon MP2000+
Tyan Tiger MPX Mbo
Matrox G550 dual head gfx card (AGP)
Matrox G450 dual head gfx card (PCI)
3 Com 10/100 nic (possibly an Intel gigabit card)
1 GB 2100 DDR RAM (ECC/Reg)
32x/24x/40x SCSI CD-RW (Yamaha)
9 gig Seagate SCSI disk (extra storage is network based)
DVD
Zip 250
SB Live
Main monitor: 21"
the other 3 will be 19" Dells
will run SuSE Linux 8.0

elexes

as well to the sig spec i have
1.2 gig athlon
256 mb pc 133 ram
40 gig hdd
all my nics are the same
win2k
gf2 ultra

ive another that i still gota build . it will be a duel 1900 xp but need to get the mobo first .

and my 1 gig lappie not going to give all the specs but total'd between all my computers i have

2 gigs of ram
300 gigs of hdd

each pc has sb live
each pc has a dvd drive
24x10x40 plextor
no pc has a floppy the laptop has that networked
my isdn comes into the main computer which acts as a proxy
dont think im forgetting anything

also running outa hd space so getting more .

at work i have a
os[Windows XP Professional (5.1 - 2600)] uptime[1d 4h 36m 57s] cpu[1-AMD , 1194MHz, 256KB] mem[Usage: 164/192MB (85.42%) [|||||||||-]]
piece of crap

phoenix2181

dell 8100
pentium 1.7 Ghz
intel 850 mobo
640 rd ram
60 Gb HD
Geforce 3
santa cruz sound card
16x dvd rom
12 cd writer
10/100 3com nic
ultra wide scsi card
altec lansing ada 885 dolby digital / THX
1Gb Jaz Drive
winxp
ms force feedback sidewinder 2
trust wireless optical scroll mouse


not a bad spec if I say so myself!

Quigs Snr

At home:

Primary Games Machine:

Athlon XP1700, 512MB DDR Ram, 20 + 40 GB WD Caviar 7200 rpm drives, Geforce 4 Ti 4600, SB Live Platinum, 3com N/W card, blah, blah, Pioneer 16x DVD
(XP, 98SE and RedHat)


My brothers machine is always available also for a LAN game - of which there are many in my house as all my PC's are networkable. My brothers machine is a replica of the above - except it uses the ECS boards built in sound and has a CDRW instead of the DVD.


Others:

AMD Duron 800, 128MB RAM(PC100), 4.3GB HardDrive, Geforce 2 Ti, 52X LG CDROM, Modem, Network Card etc..... Onboard Sound (ECS K7VZA board)
(Windows 98SE)


Celeron 500, 192MB SDRAM, Voodoo 3 PCI, Built in AMR Modem, 4GB, 6GB Hard Drives, Teac 8x CD Burner, nw card, modem etc...
(Windows 98SE)

Intel Pentium3 800, 192MB SDRAM, Voodoo 3 AGP, SBLive, 10gb hd, 52X Samsung CDROM, NW CARD/ MODEM etc......
(Windows 2000 Pro)

AMD K6-2 400, 128MB SDRAM, TNT2 Riva Ultra, ESS ISA soundcard, 4.3GB Conner HD, Again, NW card and Modem. 24x Philips CDROM & 16x Traxdata CD Burner.
(Windows 98 SE)

Then a selection of Pentium Machines, 1 Pentium 100, 2 Pentium 75's (DELL), One Pentium 166mmx. (the 166 has 32MB SDRAM, the rest 16-32MB EDO ram, and all have 1GB HD's & network cards)
(All Windows 95 OSR2)

At the bottom end of the scale 1 486dx66, 2 486 DX33's, All with 4 or 8MB ram and 540MB HD's plus one 386 machine with 4MB RAM (20mhz Processor), 200MB HD, (as well as an Amstrad 386SX laptop which looks like an old wordprocessor and weighs about 2 stone, - 1mb ram and 16mhx speed. Its hooked up to my Rowperfect Rowing machine and works great with it)
(All Windows 3.11)


Finally a mighty Olivetti 286 12mhz, 1MB RAM, and a gigantic 20MB hardrive (Which cost 5k back in 85)
(Dos 6.2 and I kid you not Windows 1.0)


Almost all of them are networked or networkable, I have a 5 port mini-hub and one 8 port hub, A Visioneer Scanner, Espon 660 and 440 Printers - plus an old Star Dot Matrix, cam's, palmtops, Steering Wheels, Gamepads, Joysticks etc.......



In work:

Machine I use mainly is a Dell P3 733, 128MB RAM, 17" Monitor, 4GB HD, Built in ATI Rage graphics and onboard sound. But thats incidental, I use it for development. These days I have been doing a lot of SQL/DB2 DBA work in addition to development, so essentially I have about 10 servers under my care, mostly these are DELL Poweredge machines, All Pentium 3's Dual or Quad processor boards, 2-4GB RAM and mostly about 136GB Harddrives (Setup in RAID 5 Conifgurations).

(All NT4)

So lots of hardware for me to play with then !!!!

Like a pig in s**t.:D

PPC

CPU: XP1900+ @ 1.73 (143*12) w/Alpha PAL 8045
Ram: 1024MB Xerox DDR Ram
Board: SY-K7V DRAGON Plus!
Graphics: Creative GeForce 3
NIC: Trust 10/100 Realtek hub
Case: Codegen New Server Case
Monitor: Iilyama Visionmaster 510 Pro (21")
DVD: Samsung DVD
CD-W: Memorex 12x
Headphones: Plantronics HS-01
Speakers: Videologic Digitheatre
Hard Drive: 2x 40Gb Seagate
1x 20Gb Maxtor
Joypad: MS Sidewinder
Joystick: MS Sidewinder FFB
Mouse: Razer Boomslang 2000
Keyboard: Keytronics custom keyboard
PSU: Codegen 350W PSU
Misc: Simcard reader
Fans: 3x Delta 80mm Screamers
1x YStech 120mm


Custom rounded ide and power cables.
Window and blowhold

zAbbo

Home

CPU: Pentium 4 1.4ghz
MOBO: Abit TH7 RAID intel i850
RAM: 512 Samsung RDRAM 800
GFX: GeForce 2mx
OS: Win2k Sp2
SOUND: Creative Standard Sound Card
HDD: 2x 15gb(WD Cav`s) Mirrored
CDRW: Iomega Zip CD 8write 4 rewrite 32 read
DVD: Samsung DVD Drive
ZIP: Iomega Internal Zip 100 drive
NIC: Realtek 10/100
Speakers: 800w Sub Woofer plus 2 Cambridge Creative Speakers + 2 Standard ones
Monitor: 15" Sony Trintron CRT
Mouse: MS IntelliMouse Optical
Key: MS Internet KB

rymus

Home:

Intel P4 2Ghz
512 ram at present
1 120GB Maxtor and 1 80GB Maxtor
Onboard 10/100Mbit LAN
ATI Rage Pro 128 Graphics - I dont play a lotta games
Sony DVD-RAM drive & Hitatchi CD/RW drive
Soundblaster Live card
Win XP Pro
Crappy old keyboard & mouse
Gateway 19" monitor thats currently being fixed

Intel P3 1Ghz
512 ram
2 80GB Maxtors
Onboard 10/100Mbit LAN
ATI Rage Pro 128 Graphics - yes I have a few of these
Sony DVD ROM drive & HP CD/RW drive
Soundblaster live card
Win XP Pro
Extreemely crappy keyboard & mouse
Dodgy Gateway 17" monitor

Intel P3 750Mhz
384 ram
1 80GB Maxtor
Realtek 10Mbit NIC
Some nvidia graphics card
Win XP Pro
VERY dodgy 15" monitor that needs throwing out
Crappier keyboard & mouse

Intel P2 200Mhz
256 ram
2 20GB Seagates
Realtek 10Mbit NIC
some misc graphics card
Win 98 SE
Prehistoric 14" monitor
keyboard only - mouse was sold to eircom for new ad campaign

(Laptop)
Intel P3 500Mhz
256 ram
1 15GB Maxtor
Xircom 10/100Mbit NIC & 56k modem combo card
ATI Rage Mobility graphics
Win XP Pro
Standard Dell Latitude hardware...

Work:

(Laptop)
Intel P3 600Mhz
256 ram
1 20gb something or other
built in modem & 10/100 NIC
Win 98 SE

Intel P4 1.4Ghz
384 ram
1 60GB something or other again
built in sound and 10/100Mbit NIC
Dont ask me about graphics
nice 17" monitor
Funky black IBM stylings

*phew, now time for some tea*

po0k

PC#1 (Jessica):
P3 800 Cu Slot1 100FSB @ 800 (:()
1x 128 CAS2 PC100
2x 256 Apacer Cas3 PC133
AOpen AX6BC
Creative GeForce2 Pro 64Meg DDR (non- o/cd)
SBLive Player 1024 - partially fried
NIC: Atm - Realtek 8029 Combo 10Mbit
By weekend hopefully: 3Com 905c-TX-M 100Mbit Managed.
Acer 77e 17" monitor (missed out on 19" Flatscreen from aldi due to lack of cash )
Adaptec 2309 SCSi2 interface with Epson perfection 1200S scanner (1200x2400dpi@ 32-bit afaik)
Plextor 1640 16/10/40 Burner on DMA-2 mode
80GB Maxtor 5400rpm UDMA33 - Mandrake 8.2, Win2kPRO SP2
30GB Maxtor 5400rpm UDMA33 - Wn98SE - badly needs reinstall.
Lucent 1646 56k DSP hybrid modem. (HCF as opposed to HSF - better then the cheap piece o' shít ones in OEM PCs)
Aopen Midi Tower Case - 230W PSU - nearly finished paint job
{edit}Logitech Dual Optical mouse, Mitsumi Keybaord{edit}
PC#2 (Box):
P200 @ 225
48Megs EDO ram @ 75Mhz
Creative VooDoo2 12Meg
1xQuantum 1gig PIO4
1x Maxtor 1gig PIO4
Win98SE
Realtek 8029AS Combo - soon to be replaced by 3COm 595 100Mbit
S3 Trio 64V1Mb
SB16 retail board
Matsusti<?> 8x CDROM PIO2
28k Rockwell hardware ISA modem which I can't find drivers for.
Some Adaptec 1509S or something ISA SCSI adapter, just internale 50-pin array, not even a back plane on it.
Chaintech M203 thingummy Mobo.
Case painted black with nice white Apple stickers robbed from an iBook package on the sides, glossed over with clear coat.
http://frink.nuigalway.ie/~syxpak/pix for more. The ones with 'box_*' at eh beginning.
{edit}Bog standard 101-key Apricto keybaord - might paint it yet, standard MS 2.0 mouse{edit}

sutty

Home main PC
(Name: sutty)
Case: ATX full tower case 300w PSU
CPU: Athlon 850@1Gz
Heatsink/fan: FOP38 with delta fan
MotherBoard: Abit KR7A-Raid with HPT 372
Ram: 256megs DDR cas 2.5
G/FX: Creative Ge-force 3 Ti500
Sound: Sblive 5.1 player
HDD: 60Gig Maxtor 7,200rpm, 30Gig IBM 75gxp
CDrom/DVD/Buner: Creative 6x(with moded frameware for reagion free playback), LG 12x 8x 32x CD burner
Network/internet: Intel 10/100 pro nic, Asus link 128 ISDN ta
TV: WinTV Go card

Home Server
(Name: Leftovers/Farscape1)
Case: ATX full tower case 300w PSU
CPU: Athlon Classic 550@700
Heatsink/fan: Termiltake slot cooler
MotherBoard: Giga-byte 7IX
Ram: 256megs SDram cas 2
G/FX: Rage 128 pro (AGP)
Sound: none
SCSI: Adaptec AHA-2940U2W
HDD: SeaGate Cheata 8Gig SCSI 10,500rpm, Maxtor 8Gig IDE, 30Gig IBM 75gxp
CDrom/DVD/Buner: Creative 36x Cdrom
Network/internet: Trust 10/100 nic

leeroybrown

Full Tower Case (5 x 5" bays 5 x 3.5" bays (2 external))

Athlon XP1600 (Still running at factory 1.4Ghz spec)
Coolermaster AC001 Aluminium cooler w. 60 mm fan (would upgrade if o/c'ing)
Abit KG7 Raid
768 Mb PC2100 DDR (3 x 256Mb)

IBM 60GXP 41.2Gb IDE (UDMA 100)
Western Digital Caviar Special Edition (8Mb Cache) 120Gb (arriving monday)

Teac CD-W540E 40x/12x/48x CD-RW Drive (just gotten - havn't had a chance to run it at full tilt yet)
LiteOn LTR 16x10x40 Burner (About to be sold to a friend)
Generic 12x DVD ROM Drive (cheap at the time)

Hansol 920D 19" Flat CRT Monitor (Samsung Dynaflat Screen)
Leadek Winfast Geforce2 Ti
Abit AU10 Soundcard (packaged very cheap in deal I was getting)
Creative Inspire 5300 5.1 surround Speakers
Realtek 100Mbps NIC
Hewlett Packard Deskjet 890Cxi (Reasonably old but still nice - Gotten for free a few months ago)
Logitech keyboard
Logitech force feedback optical mouse (makes playing MOH:AA even cooler)
Standard fiver floopy drive

azezil

Duel booting 98se and XP Home
7200rpm 40Gb IBM hdd
Athlon 1500xp
Epox8khal motherboard
512mb ddr 2100 ram
GeForce 4 MX440
SB live player 5.1
12x DVD
8x CDW
ATX midi tower, 300w psu
17" AOC monitor
mouse, kbd, speakers etc.

nocter

Athlon 1700xp -1.5Ghz
768BM SDRAM
20 + 40 Gb hard disk (Seagate)
DVD 14x
CDRW 16x
GeForce 2
some trust sound card
Onboard 10Mbit LAN
Iomega Zip 100MB
19" Monitor
Mouse + Kbd +

BKtje

Self Built.

CPU: Athlon XP 1700 1.48ghz.
Mem: 512 ddr ram
M'bord: Epox 8kha+
HDD: 40 gig Maxtor.
DvD: Ancient. no idea of speed.
cd-rw: 8x4x32 iomega zip cd.
GFX: Geforce 256 ( soon to be ati r300 when released )
SC: Creative Audigy Player
Backup: Seagate ST2000 tape drive.
TA: Eicon Diva 2.01 pci
OS: Windows 2000 Pro. Service Pack 2.
Speakers: Creative Playworks DTT3500 Digital.

300W psu
19 or 21" monitor from dell.
Opticol MS Explorer mouse.
some sort of floppy drive.

and so many fans i cant sleep at night for the noise

Defenistrator

Eventhorizon:
Asus A7m266-D
Dual MP 1900+
512Mb DDR
2 * IBM 120GXP
Asus V8200 Ti500
Soundblaster Audigy OEM
9432TX 10/100
Eicon Diva 2.01
Coolermaster 201ATCS
Enermax 550W PSU
Viewsonic 15" TFT
Logitech Wireless kb & optical mouse
Win2k pro

Speedfreak:
Epox EP D3VA
Dual Intell PIII 700
2* 40Gb Maxtor 7200 (raid 0)
768Mb SDRAM
Geforce 2Mx
Eicon Diva 2.01
SMC 9432TX 10/100 nic


Voyager:
Dell Dimension XPS 300Mhz
Redhat 5.1
3-com vortex

Sulaco:
Dell Dimension XPS 350Mhz
win98
3-com vortex

Nostromo:
Dell Optiplex GM5100
3com vortex
NT Server 4.0

daveJAM

Self Build

Black Chieftec Dragon
340w PSU
XP1600+
Titan D5TB HSF
ECS k7s5a with onbord NIC
512md sdram
Geforce DDR with BlOrb and ram sinks
Creative SB Live 5.1
Hollywood Plus DVD decoder
Pioneer AO6s slot loading DVD
Maxtor 40 Gig
Extra 2 USB ports swiped from an asus mobo
Lite-on keyboard
Trust AMI dual scroll mouse
USB external modem
Win XP Professional

Synkronite

Dell Dimension L (XPS-Z)

Pentium-III ~733Mhz
384MB SDRAM
20GB HDD
DVD Drive (No idea what make)
CD-RW 8x4x32
Creative Sound Blaster PCI
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64 32MB
Dell E770p 17" CRT Display
V.92 56k External Modem
And usual Dell Accessories

Out of general curiosity- how much would such a computer sell for? Im thinking of going Apple!

flamegrill

Name: homer - primary pc
Proc: Amd Athlon 750 mhz
Memmory: 512mb of SDRam
MotherBoard: Generic Jabil built kadoka Gateway motherboard - AMD 750 chipset
hard disks: 1 x 7200 Western Digital 15gb, 1 x 5400 maxtor 20gb
Gateway Mini tower Case
Gateway and Dell 17" monitors.
Graphics: nVidia Geforce 2 GTS 32mb DDR
Sound: Sound Blaster Live Value!
Speaker System: Boston Acustics 735 with digital input.
DVD: Toshiba 12x Region Free
CD-RW: philips 8x4x32x cd-rw
Keyboard: Gateway Keyboard
Mouse: Ms Intelimouse Explorer V3
NIC: 3 Com 905c-TX 10/100
Modem: Multi Tech external V.90 modem (hardware modem :P)
Joystick/Wheel: MS Sidewider pro 2 with force feed back 2 joystick. Ms sidewinder steering whell with force feed back 1.
ISDN: Cisco 803 ISDN router - 4 port hub

Name: Trinity - FreeBSD home server - internet gaeway for LAN
Proc: Intel Pentium 200 mmx
Memmory: 64mb EDO
Hard disks: Seagate 2gb and 4.5gb IBM SCSI
Mother Board: Generic intel board
Graphics: Matrox Mystique II (or milenium cant remember - hardly conequentil in a server anyways :P)
No keyboard or mouse.
Same modem as above.
Monitor: Tangtung 14" (very dodgy on its last legs - rarely used)
NIC: Realtek NE2000 clone - 10mb with 4 port hub built in.

TinCool

Name: Desktop - Primary PC
Proc: Celeron 566 o/c to 700
Memmory: 512mb SDRam
MotherBoard: Some terrible Jetway M/B
hard disks: 1 x 40gig; 1 x 80gig
Case: PC Peripherals Desktop case
Monitor: 19" Philips 107E
Graphics: nVidia Geforce 2 DDR
Sound: Sound Blaster Live Value
Speakers: Creative labs incl. sub woofer etc.
DVD: Creative 6x
CD-RW: iomega 4x4x12x cd-rw
Keyboard: Trust Power Keyboard
Mouse: Logitech cordless
NIC: Realtek
Modem: Pace 56K Internal
OS: triple boot Win98; Win2k; WinXP (Home Ed)


Name: Bobafett - Server PC
Proc: Duron 1 gig
Memmory: 256mb DDR (I think. The good stuff anyway)
MotherBoard: Some Elite M/B
hard disks: 1 x 40gig
Case: Brandless Minitower.
Monitor: 14" (used when I had 486DX4 100 so it's old)
Graphics: 32mb Card w TV out
Sound: Built in
Speakers: None
DVD: OEM 32x
CD-RW: None
Keyboard: Cheap Ass Mitsumi keyboard
Mouse: MS Cordless Infra Red
NIC: Unsure of make
Modem: OEM 56k Internal (hardware modem)
OS: Win2K Advanced Server

bubbles

Just ordered my new system, thought i'd brag about it here :P

Chieftech Scorpio TX-10BLD
p4 2 ghz running at about 2.6ghz (hopefully)
Samsung 512MB RDRAM
Abit TH7-II RAID
Coolermaster Fujiyama Silent Heat Pipe
Sound Blaster Audigy
ASUS V8460 Ultra GeForce 4 Ti4600
Creative Modem Blaster V.92
120 gig IBM UDMA100
120 gig Maxtor 5200 drive
80 gig IBM 76GXP UDMA100
40 gig 7200
20 gig 7200
Teac 3.5" Black Floppy Disk
Pioneer DVD-106S Region Free!
Pioneer DVD-1O4 DVD-RW - must start renting dvds
Phillips cd writer
21" Trinitron Monitor

Not a bad little system me thinks - for a couple of months anyway

zAbbo

Abits onboard RAID isn`t the greatest, nice system tho. Would have been better if you went with SCSI maybe.

Nice system, prices?

bubbles

The whole lot excluding monitor is 3k
Had to get rounded ide cables and fans etc as well which i didn't bother listing

Gerry

Bleh, abit use the highpoint 370 controller, which is also used by iwill, epox etc. It is much more reliable than the highpoint 366, and it will not be used in a raid configuration, it is there just to boost the number of ide channels.

bubbles

What Gerry said.

zAbbo

It has issues regarding CD drives, i have a th7 RAID and for some reason buring or copying cd`s never turns out right. Also has the highpoint 370. Burns grand from IDE0 to IDE3 (Burner)

Maybe its just my config.

JustHalf

I have the Abit Kt7A-RAID, and in the manual it specifically says not to use ATAPI (ie, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, etc) drives with the HPT370.

Perhaps it's having problems because you're doing something with it you're not supposed to?

Apparently my PSU has problems acting as an off-board motor.