Iwill KA266 only 2 ide

[TechDude]

The iwill ka266 mobo that i ordered came yesterday. I was still missing the 2x 256mb ddr ram from crucial so i didnt open it yet. I was looking through iwills website and noticed that there are only 2 on board ide.

Heres what the website says anyways:
<i>Dual ATA 100/66/33 IDE Channels
Supports ATAPI IDE CD-ROM, ZIP-100 & LS-120</i>

This is my first time building a comp from scratch so i could be wrong.. but dont you need 3 ide?? 1 for the HDD, 1 for the CD-ROM (slave is a cd burner).. and 1 for the floppy drive?

I am so confused =(

[AzKidd69]

Well the FDD is not considered IDE to start with. So on your 2 IDE ports u can run up to 4 IDE devices.. Also the floppy runs off it's own cable and has it's own port that looks similar to an IDE port.

[TechDude]

Found the slot to conenct the fd at.. lets see if i can get this comp to work =)

[TechDude]

ok where do i plug in fans?? i got 2 80 case fans, a hsf on the cpu and a orb i wanna put on the north bridge.

[fshanda]

Your manual should show the location of the fan headers on your motherboard. Use one of those for your HSF. HSF's usualy come with a three pin connector that attaches to the boards fan header. Your case fans should have four pin connectors that will plug into your power supply. The orb depends on what connector it has. 3 pin could go on the boards second fan header or use a 3-4 pin adapter and connect it to the power supply.

Good luck,

Fshanda http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

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[TechDude]

Thanks http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif. I got it to work.. now i gotta install os..

System Specs
Processor: AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz @ 1590GHz
Motherboard: Iwill KA266
RAM: 512mb DDR-SDRAM
Sound: SB Live! X-Gamer
Hard Drive: 60GB IBM (7200rpm)
Video: VisionTek GeForce3 (Gainward was too 'spensive..)
CD-ROM: 20x cd-rom currently (waiting for 52x to arrive)
CD-Burner: 12x/4x/32x

All for aprox. $1100. Bet ya Dell or Gateway couldnt supply a 1.8ghz P4 along with all that other stuff for $1100. =D

[This message has been edited by TechDude (edited 08-25-2001).]

[tazman]

I'm about to build a system for someone and have been eyeballing the Iwill KK266Plus - is that what you have and if it is, how is the onboard sound?

ME

[TechDude]

No I have the KA266. Its working great for me.. win98se is stable. And right now im OC'ing it to 1590ghz with a 1.4k athlon .. its been stable so far.

3d benchmark with oc is at 7443

I dunno about onboatd sound.. i have it dissabled.