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Yes, I tried two slots with same results. I did notice after installing the new Maxtor card that the IRQs had changed, with the NIC and the ATA card now sharing IRQ11. The bios is set for Plug and Play OS.

Swapped the SIIG card for a Maxtor and got the same results. The card installs fine, the warning comes up about the device not having "digitally signed drivers". After the HD is installed, XP sees it just fine. But as soon as you do a large file transfer from HD#2 to new HD (#3), it's "crash...

The manufacturer of the card is SIIG (www.siig.com) and their part number is SC-PE4B12 . Link to their webpage is : http://www.siig.com/products/ide/features/Ultra_ATA133PCI.html Version 2.0, Silcon Image Sil0680 Chipset Assuming that it is a bad card, the options are to buy the Maxtor card...

In at nutshell: I am burning DVDs and don't want to wait 90 minutes for a burn of a 10 gb avi file that will be 3.8 gb DVD. System: Athlon XP 1700; 512 mb DDR RAM; IDE 1: 20 gb HD/DVD-ROM; IDE 2: 80 gb HD/DVR-RW; XP Pro. Both drives have DMA turned on. Transfer rates: 20 gb 30-40,000 KBs...