KT6 Delta Fis2r and s-ata woes

Hello.
My current setup is a follows.
kt6 delta
xp3200+
1 gig ram
1 250gig quantum sata drive
nvidia agp gfx card
adaptec 2940 pci card
I boot xp off this sata drive, hanging on the via controller, and everything has been working just fine.
I then enable the onboard promise controller in bios, set it to raid mode (or else I can't find a single working driver) and attach a drive. I configure it in promise's bios, and boot xp to format and give it a drive letter.
Everything is working fine for a few minutes, then I lose ethernet. At first I thought my inet connection was down, but I had two other computers accessing it so it wasn't it. After a few retries the same thing happened again and again, I even got a bluescreen (irql_not_equal). The adaptec 2940 and the promise controller was sharing irq (19), and I found no way of overriding it.
Anyone with a reasonable solution or suggestion ?

try playing swap the pci slot with it

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    Quote
    Originally posted by MomHerrmann
    I am confused. The KT6 Delta FIS2R mobo just won ANOTHER award and MSI is pulling it out of the market. Does this make any kind of sense?
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    The CPU temp was around 60C in windows
    Which headsink? Mounted properly and in correct direction?
    Quote
    I reseted the BIOS
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    Quote
    is it possible to see the CPU frequency in the AMI Bios? I can only find FSB frequency
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