Absolutely you can use one sata drive as a regular drive. I do it here with 2 without using raid. You have to set them up in a raid configuration only if you want that, otherwise they act just like 2 seperate drives. On another note I noticed you have the same Optorite dvd burner as I and I am...

Just Wondering......will I still be able to use both cd-roms,on ide port 2 , 2 ide hard drives on port 1. Manual says something about after enabling the sata bridge,only one device can be used ??? Anyone have any input on this matter

One option is what I did with mine. I kept the board and got a Celeron II 566 which I have OCed to 850(with the adaptor). - you could of course get a faster chip. My wife still uses it and it has really been stable, and works good for what she does - surfing and word processing. "Paul"...

Hey guys, I just bought an NF7-S board and am in the process of building it. I ran into one problem, and that is with my harddrives. The motherboard would freeze at the part that says "Detecting IDE Devices." Well, I did my research and sure enough, it's my older Western Digital harddrives...

Hello i have a western digital 160 gb installed on a abit kt7a raid, with the latest bios, but windows 2000 only see 130 gb of space. Any idea? any special method to format the disk? thansk in advance. Cesar

Hi everyone I have : NF7 V2.0 mainboard with bios NF7d18 AMD Athlon 2600+ Sapphire Radeon 9200-SE I set the high limit alarm for the CPU at 75°C in the bios I invariably get a shutdown when my CPU reaches 57°C sharp. I monitor the temperature from Windows XP with Hardware Doctor Ver 2.70. Strange...

Sorry if this has been covered before, I'm new to this group... I've just built up a system using an IC7-G with a P4 3.06 (533fsb) and standard Intel cooler, carefully applied using good fresh compound, fan spinning at about 4000rpm... On boot-up from cold the bios shows the CPU temp at about 65...

I have a SATA Raptor and a SATA Maxtor installed but during the POST screen it only shows them as ata100 but both drives are ata150. How do I fix this? TIA, Rick

I'm having trouble w/ my AGP video card dropping to blank screens and test patterns. If I run a PCI card, everything is OK. My AGP video card has been replaced by ATI under warranty. Assuming that my new replacement AGP card is ok, should I suspect my motherborad? Is there a history of AGP...

I have just purchased an ABIT IC7-MAX3 and have a question, I have a new hard drive with a serial converter attached and it is attached to sata 1 via the supplied cable. The only problem is that the bios does not detect the hard drive, at the minute all I have done in the bios is selected...

OK, I have an Abit KD7-RAID with the latest BIOS from ABIT including the Highpoint 2.34 BIOS and 2.34 drivers for XP also have version 5.1.2535.0 of the HPT37x RAID 0 Array SCSI Device Driver. I have 2 x 200GB disks (Western Digital WD2000JB). I have connected them on to a single ribbon to IDE3...

Just finished setting it up. It took me a while to figure out which water cooling gear to go with. I finnally decided to go with the stuff made at Danger Den, a Maze 4 kit. I have a 2.4C running at 3.22, not a super OC, but it's stable as hell. I posted a page for anyone wanting to see a water...

hi guys, i just got myself a new system: abit nf7-s v2.0 amd xp 2500+ barton corsair twinx pc3700 2x256 my question regards the multiplier, in bios i can adjust this but nothing really changes do i have to unlock cpu or am i doing something

Anyone else experienced this?

Any thoughts on a cure other than getting rid of the ide drivers? TIA tHatDudeUK

I just got this board set up and the guy who set the board up put the HD and DVD drive on IDE port 2 and the Writer on IDE port 1, i just tried to change the boot order and the system wouldn't boot at all. It works (only works) if i have it configured the way the guy set the board up. Does anyone...

Hello, I have: Abit TH7II with P4 1,6 L2 256kb Kingston 2 x 128 PC800 RDRAM. I would like to upgrade the processor. But the only available P4 processors have a fsb of 533 (4 x 133). In de bios i can select e.g. for 133 mHz and a multiplyer to 20, so i get 2,66.

I'm considering an ABIT NF7 V2.0, maybe a Barton 2500 or a bit higher. Mostly I want good performance on disk i/o since I do a lot of work with large wav files and compression (SHN, FLAC). So I'm thinking of raid with SATA. But I've heard some bad things about SATA on the NF7. Not too much here on...

test only

The MB recognizes them fine on the secondary channel. As a matter of fact I copied the drives from 80GB drives on primary to 120gb on secondary, but when I install these 2- 120gb drives in the primary position the bios fails to see them. What gives?