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I had two drives (1 Maxtor and 1 Samsung) connected to a Promise
Ultra133 Tx2 card but when Windows XP would start it would crash after
a few seconds of loading applications. It seemed to crash quicker if I
tried starting other applications while it was loading. I moved the
drives to my motherboard's ata100 controller and Windows was stable
again. The computer is a Presario 8000T with a P4 2.8 GHz with
hyper-threading and both drives were in mode 6 with the Promise
controller and are now back to mode 5 on the motherboard's controller.
I am using Promise's latest drivers 2.0.0.43. I hate sacrificing speed
for stability, yet it seems the extra speed (33%) gained from the
Promise controller is not worth it if I have to suffer unusually long
delays.
I had two drives (1 Maxtor and 1 Samsung) connected to a Promise
Ultra133 Tx2 card but when Windows XP would start it would crash after
a few seconds of loading applications. It seemed to crash quicker if I
tried starting other applications while it was loading. I moved the
drives to my motherboard's ata100 controller and Windows was stable
again. The computer is a Presario 8000T with a P4 2.8 GHz with
hyper-threading and both drives were in mode 6 with the Promise
controller and are now back to mode 5 on the motherboard's controller.
I am using Promise's latest drivers 2.0.0.43. I hate sacrificing speed
for stability, yet it seems the extra speed (33%) gained from the
Promise controller is not worth it if I have to suffer unusually long
delays.