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    WHAT is wrong with my hard drive??!?!?!

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by radialman, Feb 12, 2007.

  1. radialman

    radialman Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok. I know these drive are in my desktop, but I am totally confused about why my WD 80gb drive is sooooo low on the read burst test on the HD tach program?!?!? I run the same test on a 5yr old Maxtor 60gb and it runs very well. What is the issue? Software? I checked the hardware settings for the drive via windows and it is set on PIO mode, and I have the DMA selected. Is there a way to force ATA100 on this drive? Thanks,
    Rob

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    WOOOOHOOOOO!!!
    That did the trick. Don't you just LOVE XP and it's less than stellar methods of managing the IDE channels??

    Thanks for the link, it worked well.
    Rob
     
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    Ok, I did the fix, and it worked well. BUT, it seems that everytime I restart the computer XP revert's back to PIO mode for both IDE channels. How can I stop XP from doing this? I know the HD's work well at full speed, but I'm per-plexed as why they go back to the slowest mode apon restarts.

    Rob
     
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    Check in the BIOS when you start the computer up Rob, there should be a setting in there.
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Feb 16, 2007
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    Ok, I'll check the Bios. Ever since I had new harddrives on this mobo , it has been weird. It will not start when powered up, you have to push the reset button to start it. Now the IDE channels are messing up. I will be replacing it soon anyhow.

    Rob
     
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    Found the problem. The IDE controller for the primary channel went bad. I formatted a different HD and still had problems to the point of it not going past the post screen. Hence I have a new mobo and processor on the way.
    Rob
     
    radialman, Feb 18, 2007
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