Hard Drive Slow Down

[spookey]

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nakasuway pud ko ani pero wa man ko kabalo unsaon pagfix mao ako gipawarranty. then pagtaud nako sa replacement na ok ra man pud. anyway, ok pa man hangtud ron. basin sa HDD jud ako na prob.

[rcm0722]

very nice advices for this kind of problem

[EntrePinoy]

or sumtimes naa jud baya bad batch nga sata cables

[muzikfreakah]

Hmm, nibalik nasad ang problem. I returned my old hard drives back, duha ka 80 gig nga seagate. Sa Sata port 1 where I have my OS 80 gig, naka PIO mode gyud cya. Dili sad nako cya ma change to DMA mode under device manager. Kay the only option is AUTO or none under DMA. So sa BIOS, instead of AUTO akong gi set to DMA mode 5 pero wala gihapon. Pag balhin nako niya ug lain Sata port, ni work na cya, pas pas kaayo. And for some reason naa koy na discover sa luyo sa Seagate nga Sata hard drive, naay jumper to limit it to 1.5 or 3gb, I remove the jumper to set ot to 3gb and wow, to my amazement, ni pas pas pagyud ug samut, around 220mb na iyang access rate gikan sa 120mb (according to HDtach).

Im cleaning my Sata port one now to check if it will work like what my supplier said, if it doesnt, then Im guessing its the sata port. Ang cable dili man sad problema kay gi balhin nako ang cable sa Sata port1 did2 sa working nga Sata port, ok man gihapon.

Still, is this a windows thing? I want to refresh unta the detection of that HD on sata port one without reformatting na kay OS drive man gud ni.

[muzikfreakah]

Will update in awhile unsay results sa testing.

[muzikfreakah]

Well cleaning didnt solve the issue. but this did.
1.) I swap hard drives for sata1 and sata2 (then OS was back on its regular speed)
2.) Swapped them back, and now Sata 1 is running my OS at UDMA 5.

So It could be a board + seagate issue, or purely a windows Hard drive detection issue. The way I see it, Sata one had to connect to a different hard drive which would run Ultra DMA 5 correctly which was done my my wester digital 250gb. And when I put the Seagate back on it, it detected it now as Ultra DMA 5.

Hope this helps any1 out there.

[brown_dog]

Try updating your I/O drivers or SATA/IDE controlers. Some motherboards have a bundled all in one chipset drivers which includes the SATA drivers, PCI-E driver and chipset drivers.

[muzikfreakah]

Yup downloaded the latest nasad. Did that before everything else. Latest intel chipset drivers.