Guest Posted August 4, 2000 All my hard drives support it, and I am 98% sure my mobo does too. On the boot screen it says that SMART capability is disabled. Well, I've checked all the documentation on my mboard and have not found a way to enable it. Does anybody out there have this mobo, and better yet, does anybody know how to enable SMART capability? ----btw what exactly is it?---- ") ------------------ ********************************************** ---Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.--- ********************************************** Pentium II 450@504 4.5X112 128MB PC100 SDRAM Diamond Viper V770 Ultra Sound Blaster Live! Value Seagate 13.6 Gig 7200RPM ATA/66 Western Digital 13.4 Gig 7200RPM ATA/66 Quantum 8.3 Gig 36X Acer CD Rom Viewsonic PS790 19" Sweet as Heck Monitor 3Com NIC Lexmark 5700 Printer ********************************************** Share this post Link to post
DrSchmoe 0 Posted August 4, 2000 SMART is a technology that can detect defects in your hard drive, long before they become a problem. Basically, it is a diagnostic protocol for your drives to talk to your motherboard. In order for SMART to work, your drives would need to support it, which I am sure your ATA/66 drives support (don't know about that Quantum, depends how old it is). The control to enable SMART would be in your BIOS. I am not exactly sure where. They may also call it something slightly different like "Hard drive diagnostic reporting." or the like. I had an Amprton board for my old Pentium, but I only use Asus now. That company has way too many defects and problems. Share this post Link to post
