Taxing your PVR - HT/Multicore question

[Pioneer4x4]

I’m also playing with my old DXR3 DVD card but I can’t find the vga loop-back cable that came with it so even though it may play mpeg2 video with 5% cpu usage outside of GBPVR, I have to use two separate cables to watch on TV..

I think I have one of those laying around. Are they usefull for anything?

[nitrogen_widget]

Not sure yet.
I've got the latest driver's from creative.
Thier old, but they claim to work with XP.

Give me a week & i'll let you know

[nitrogen_widget]

You can boot on a promise card, you just have to install the dos scsi drivers first then you can boot.

There is apparantly an issue with booting off a promise ultra 100 card on a FIC SD11. I have a silicon image based card I may try if I get a chance, but it works & I have a rule about not touching a system once it does what I want it to do.

I can get P4 1.8 refurbished Dell GX-240's fairly cheap so I'm just going to deal with it until after the holidays.

[nitrogen_widget]

The maxtor ultra 100 card is just a relabled promise card. But I understand what you saying. It's just this MB in particular that just won't boot the OS off the card.
It recognizes the card, And attempts to boot it as a SCSI device, but it just won't go any further.
It is a bios issue from what i've read online that will never be rectified due to it's age.

Besides, i'm pretty sure the slowness of GBPVR is more likely the cpu & not the HD.