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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Don Karnage on March 09, 2005, 10:50:27 pm
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recently i change my motherboard because the original one was fried, my old one can have a max of 1 gig of ram and the new one a max of 2 gig of ram, my question is how do i know the max in size and number of hd i can put on my com, i read the tech manual but there no info about that.
my mother board is a: A7N8X-VM
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Providing you don't put in an Optical drive, The MB will hold 4 HD's. Of course you'll want at least one cd rom. also you can buy PCI cards that will allow you to go beyond that number. Just make sure your Powersupply can power them.
I know I have two 160 gig hd's and a DVD burner and a CDBurner/ Dvd Player on mine. My power supply also glows in the Dark though at around 600 watts.
I hope this helps you bro.
Stephen
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Stephens right. That board has two IDE slots and you can place two hard drives on each slot but CD/DVD roms dirves use IDE too and you can't have a hard drive and a CD/DVD rom sharing the same IDE port. This means that if you are using a CD/DVD rom, (and I can't imagine you're not), you're limited to 2 hard drives.
I haven't heard of a PCI card for hard drives, as Stephen suggested, but I guess it could be a solution if you want more drives. Wouldn't the drives be a bit slow going through a PCI port?
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BTW, I don't think there is any physical limit to the size of hard drive you can use. If you drive is formatted to NTFS, (which I think is compulsory if you're using Windows 2000 or XP), I don't think there is a limit.
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ok, anyway i will go to the computer shop when i upgrade it with the ram, and i will ask for the power supply, i already have 2 hd 1x80 and 1x20 and 2 external data storage outside, i know that 1 of them can hold a 200 gig hd max, anyway i will also see to build another com with my old mother board so i can play my game so the internet antivirus and windows that just decide to popup and do a task when you play your game.