WD problems with nForce2 chipset?

[Drzeto]

I've got an Abit NF7-S rev 2.0 motherboard. Now I'm going to buy a Western Digital Caviar XL 80Gb 7200rpm 8Mb cache UDMA100 IDE but the people in the computer store told me that the Western Digital harddrives doesn't work satisfactory with motherboards that has the nForce2 chipset. They told me that the problems occur on many different firmware versions, so it's impossible to say exactly which one to buy or not to buy. The best thing is not to buy a WD at all if you have a motherboard with the nForce2 chipset. Can this really be true??

 

[dhlucke]

No. It's not true. Screw the computer store and buy online.

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[pitsi]

no ... NO ... <b>NO</b> ... <b><font color=red>NO!</b></font color=red>

 

[Drzeto]

I've done some googling and the latest info I've got is that there apparently is a problem with WD drives not being detected on the nForce2 chipset but, their is a way around it.....check out this site for more info:

http://www.8rdafaq.com/Epox_nForce2/file.php?file=issues.html

 

[davemar14]

No, they are wrong. I got an N-Force 2 board with a Western Digital 80 GB w/8 MB Buffer. I have no problems with it at all.

 

[dhlucke]

I've put a Nforce2 board together with a 800JB with no problems.

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[pitsi]

I've got a Nforce 2 board with WD1200JB and no problems.

 

[dinoX]

I've got the asus A7N8X Deluxe Mobo with nForce 2 chipset and 2 80 GB Western Digital 7200 RPM 8 MB Buffer HDD's. No issues before, during or after install of the OS.

Tell whatever store you went to they are full of crap.

dinoX aka BlackDog<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by dinoX on 06/11/03 09:35 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[andlcs]

I also have a nForce2 MOBO (FIC AU13) and WD400JB HD and had no problems

 

[JimmyDean]

I have a K7N2D-ILSR with a WD 6.5 gb

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