i am not sure why, but when i moved the primary hard drive to a 5.25 inch bay mounted in what use to be a coverter for a zip drive to sit in a 5.25 bay, witth the CD burner hooked to its IDE bus as a slave, i moved my 2nd hard drive directly below the floppy bay, it is on the same IDE bus as my DVD burner. i did this so i could have a dvd and cd burner, but i did not want both hard drives on hte same IDE bus. i heard having two drives on one bus can cause lagg if there is reading and or writing of data on both drives at the same time. i did get lagg when they where on the same bus, but they where also right next to each other. so, after moving them and installing the new front USB\audio ports, i boot, and theres no lagg on my music if i try to do alot at once (being downloading and and listening to music).
now my question is this: is the lagg gone because they are on a differant bus? or is it gone because there was interference caused by the drives being too close to each other? i just want to know for future referance. oh, a few other minor questions about my board... my manual says there are pins for a firewire port to be installed, but, the pins arnt there, just holes with solder in them, and it in no way says this was optional, from what the book said, those pins where stock, is this just a manufacturing fluke?. also, there is a second power light connection that is next to the speaker connection pins (the speaker for the beeps and boops made by the computer). i have no idea WHY you would want two power lights... but it is there, none the less, if you know why, please enlighten me on this, the power light on this, and pretty much all cases should be enough to get the point across. and my final question is if my power supply fan is ready to die, or the whole power supply at once... the fan on my powersupply is barly spinning, i cant feel any air being sucked in or out of either side of the PSU... should i replace this fan? i mean, it does get REALLY warm at times... or is my Xpower PSU ready to just kick it? god i hope not... my only other PSU is that okia 420w PSU, that i wouldnt use to run a blender... if needed, i can gut the fan outta the okia, it is a good lil fan, i tested it.
for referance, this is my mobo: [link]http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=661FM2-LSR&class=mb[/link]