SIIG Eide Ultra Ata-133 Pci Dualchannel Controller for Pc

Manufacturer:	SIIG
List price:	~~$39.99~~
Our price:	$36.09 that is 10% off!

SIIG Eide Ultra Ata-133 Pci Dualchannel Controller for Pc

Average rating: Stars

Use a new hard drive in an old PC

I used this so I could add 120GB hard drive to my old PC as a secondary drive. I'm using it to hold video files for when I'm assembling home videos to burn on a DVD. The old BIOS in my computer doesn't recognize a drive that big, and a controller like this allows Windows to see the drive when the BIOS can't.

It was a snap to install, just snap the card in a PCI slot, connect the drive cable to the card and start the computer. The card I got already had the most updated firmware, so I didn't need to update anything.

SIIG Eide Ultra Ata-133 Pci Dualchannel Controller for Pc - SIIG

Incompatible with Compaq Presario Desktop

I bought this card to add disk controller channels to my 5 year old Compaq Presario (500 MHz Athlon) desktop. Instructions were simple enough. As stated in the directions, the computer recognized the card and recognized the drives that were attached to the card (DVD ROM and CD burner) but then the computer would not boot. It just sat at the Compaq splash screen forever. If the card was installed, but the drives were not connected, it recognized the card, noted that there were no drives connected and still would not boot. I tried moving the card to every PCI slot in the computer (five of them) with the same results. There seems to be a compatibility issue with this card and the Compaq motherboard.

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Definitely 5-stars!

Easy to install and worked the first time. This is the ATA adapter to buy if you want to add more drives and/or break the 137GB barrier. As a bonus it supports ATA-133, the highest speed version of EIDE, but is compatible with 100/66/33 drives as well (most disk drives are 100 MHz, Maxtor being an exception at 133 MHz). This card allows you to use one channel for 133MHz and another channel for 100MHz drives (up to 2 drives per channel). Nice! Until Serial ATA disk drives drop further in price, this is the way to easily and cost effectively add more (and large) hard drives to your system.

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