board to replace INTEL Bad Axe 2

[conuk]

ok didnt want SLI at the time but ... hey things change

ive got 8800 GTX now....

2 gb ram

ive got a number of hard drives of which the Intel board only will work with 5 hard drives... although it has 8 sata ports - strange.

Anybody care to recommend a board to replace this ?

Must be Qx6700 friendly.... going to put 4 gb ram in there and swapping over to vista.... 2 8800 gtx`s - not to bothered about overclocking ....

Recommendations .... if your selling one also - drop me a line.

 

[Tute]

Well, if you want SLI, it's 780i if you want to use DDR2, or 790i if you want to use DDR3.

I don't think there's a lot of difference between the makes of board, they all generally follow the same reference design.

 

[conuk]

yeah got 4 gb of ddr 2 now ... the main problem is the board not running all the sata drives which I find really weird.

have 2 x raptor 150gb in raid.
2 x 320gb drive

and 2 new 500gb drives to replace the above..... if I add both of the 500 drives it refuses to boot.... any combination disconnect or reconnect and doesnt boot.

weird ?

 

[rpstewart]

and 2 new 500gb drives to replace the above..... if I add both of the 500 drives it refuses to boot.... any combination disconnect or reconnect and doesnt boot.

Which drives are connected to which controller? Are you checking that the boot priority isn't changing when you connect more drives?

 

[conuk]

yeah checked the boot priority....

it works out that 1 drive has to connect to the Marvell controller ... it seems this is the problem somewhere....

if I disconnect one of the satas from the intel controller .... and put it on the marvell it works ok.... its just not happy with 5 drives.... I dont want to keep 5 drives but want to copy data across them which is easiest to do ... then I will probably remove the 2 smaller ones.

 

[conuk]

so 4 drives are on the intel controller...

1 ends up on the marvell controller which there are 4 ...

4 intel
4 marvell