
02-25-01, 10:00 PM
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Dancing Hero
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Over there
Posts: 1,163
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'twould be best...
What motherboard do you have?
As far as PCI sharing, by the way, it refers to the PCI channels that the mobo assigns to each PCI slot (Referred to as A, B, C, and D). Basically, PCI was originally only designed to accomodate four devices, but when mobo makers started adding more slots, they'd just tie in the slots with other resources. On my Abit BP-6, for instance, the PCI-1 and AGP share a host mapping, PCI-2 is isolated, PCI-3 shares with the onboard IDE controller, and PCI-4 and PCI-5 share the same control signal. That means that if I want to use PCI-3, it'll have to work around the onboard IDE controller (Okay since I have it disabled and I'm using a Promise controller there). Also, PCI-4 and PCI-5 will cause problems if I put two cards there that both use the bus-mastering host control signal. Some cards, like the Voodoo2, do not use the host control signal, but instead arbitrate down, so they can be used in tandem with another card in those two slots, but generally speaking, on my motherboard, if I use AGP, I can only use PCI-2, PCI-3, and either PCI-4 or PCI-5.
Sucks, huh? 
More information than you wanted, but hey. Some people like to know how things work.
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