glc,
Yeah, that's the way the Abit is too (must be the 440BX chipset), except there are only 5 PCI slots. Slot 3 shares its IRQ with the onboard Highpoint UDMA66 controller. I suspect this is the crux of my problem; if I put the SB Live on slot #2, it will be alone but the Delta card will always be sharing with either the UDMA66 controller, the USB controller, or the AGP video card.
A look at the IRQ usage from the previous incarnation of my system (when it was a Pentium MMX 200 MHz) shows me that the SB Live then shared an IRQ with both the USB controller and the Promise Ultra66 controller card I had in there... and I never observed any failure. So maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree. My next attempt will be to put the Delta card in slot #2 and the SB Live elsewhere, and see if it works OK then.
I've also read that there seems to be a fair bit of problems people are having with the built-in Highpoint controller on this Abit board, particularly associated with large Maxtor HDDs (mine is a 30-GB Maxtor...). So if the Delta in slot #2 still crashes on me, maybe I'll try disabling the on-board controller and stick my Promise card in there...
-AlChuck
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