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Has anyone heard if this drive is good on motherboard compatibility?

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDe ... 351&depa=1

I know plextor's site has a mobo compatibility page but my mobo isn't listed

http://www.plextor.com/english/support/media_712SA.htm

for gigabyte there is only 1 nforce chipsetted mobo and it says it works but its the old nforce 3 chipset

check the PLEXTOR FORUM at CDFREAKS.COM there is a thread on that subject.

thx

It doesn't matter, Hox. If it doesn't work, put it on Ebay.

you make a valid point cowboyslim

ive got something huge cooking right now, so i might be buying a 716sa for super cheap

It worked fine on my MSI K8N Neo4 Board Hox. The drive itself sucked ass but it did work with the board.

sucked ass huh

yeah, sounds like a weird cross between 'kicked ass' and 'sucked di**'

I have an ABIT Kv8-max3 This Main board has 2 sata controllers via and SI3114. the via controller doesn't handle atapi devices so I used the SI3114. According to the plextor compatibi;ty chart this si3114 on this Main board would work. I tried burning dvd's at 16x (taiyo Yuden 16x's also recommended media by plextor) and I would get a failure on 3 different programs. I tried all 4 ports on the SI3114 controller I turned off all unused resources NAV, spysweep, etc. I updated the bios to latest on Main board and used firmware 1.04a, 1.04b, & 1.05 on the plextor and I was still getting errors I even took a new harddrive off the shelf at my shop an installed WinXP fresh and tried to make sure I didn't have any corrupted aspi drivers. I was still getting burns that were failing half way thru the process. I bought an adaptec 1205sa sata controller and installed it and now I am getting flawless burns. And 2 days later they come out with firmware 1.06. I haven't tried this firmware without the adaptec card yet. This will probably piss me off after I spend money on an add-in card to get something to work then 2 days later they release firmware to patch it.
All I am saying is be careful about which mother board you have and the sata controller it has on it. I have a recommended board and it didn't work for me. My dad got the same plex drive I did and his board is an asus an78x-deluxe with a SI3112 and it worked flawless with his 250 gig Hitachi SATA drive. This drive once its worked is a very fast and smooth drive.

My Grandpappy always told me: "Slim", he says, "geeks that live by the VIA chip, die by the VIA chip."