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 Posted: Sat, 30th Oct 2004 20:30 Post subject: The Computer is dead!!! |
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WTF! I have never seen such a gay behavior in my life!!!
I have a P4 2.66GHz, 1500MB DDR Dual Channel, Gigabyte mobo (GA-8IK1100), WD 120GB hard drive and a sapphire ATI Radeon 9800 Pro.
A few weeks ago I had to replace the hard driver since it made weird noises like a dead violin or whatever. I got a new WD 120GB hard drive and installed windows. Everything went smooth until 2 days ago when my computer suddenly began to die! It takes about 1-2 minutes for windows to load (XP pro sp2) and when it loads, the monitor shuts down then get back on and windows loads. When I right click or enter a folder it takes too much time until the computer reacts and still everything is laggy and heavy! Every process I start (an app or a game) takes long moments to start up and run very very heavily.
I updated drivers, firmware, did checkdisk, defragged and scanned for viruses, adware, spyware and cleaned the registery!
Nothing helps! Please if anyone has any idea wtf is going on let me know.
Thanks in advance.
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| Posted: Sat, 30th Oct 2004 20:41 Post subject: |
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Sounds like you are running the hdd in PIO mode instead of DMA.
PIO is extremely slow and shuld never be used unless you like to wait.
So check that out.
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| Posted: Sat, 30th Oct 2004 20:45 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sat, 30th Oct 2004 21:00 Post subject: |
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| pallebrun wrote: | Sounds like you are running the hdd in PIO mode instead of DMA.
PIO is extremely slow and shuld never be used unless you like to wait.
So check that out. |
I looked in my bios and didn't find anything about PIO or DMA modes.
I also checked whats written next to my hard drive's name during boot and it was only ATA100, LBA.
Where should this PIO to DMA option be?
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| Posted: Sat, 30th Oct 2004 21:08 Post subject: |
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You change PIO/DMA mode in your device manager in windows.
Control panel/system/hardware/device manager/IDE (or something with harddrive, it can vary from mobo to mobo) and then check for transfear mode or something like that.
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| Posted: Sat, 30th Oct 2004 21:35 Post subject: |
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Well the primary IDE Channel is set to PIO mode with no way to change to DMA. (It says Transfer Mode=DMA If available, but the current mode is PIO)
The secondary IDE Channel is set to Ultra DMA Mode 2.
What shall i do?
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| Posted: Sat, 30th Oct 2004 21:41 Post subject: |
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Ah then that is the problem.
You dont have an option that say something like "let the bios select transfear mode"? If so uncheck that.
If you dont have that, delete the drive. Dont worry windows will autoinstall it the next time you start windows. And now try changing it again.
Windows have a safe kind of thing that enables PIO when the hdd gets write errors. And this is problary what have happened with your faulty hdd and it will stay like this even though you have a new hdd. And you cant just change it back to DMA if the safe thing kicks in, you have to delete the drive and let windows reinstall it.
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| Posted: Sat, 30th Oct 2004 21:52 Post subject: |
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It is strange that the pc worked fine at first. maybe you have a faulty cable, try to change it if you have a spare one.
And you should take a closer look at your bios because you can set the transfermode (pio/dma 1,2,3,etc) in the bios. Usually it is set to auto. Turn that of and select dma and mode 5 if you have a 80 ribbon ide cable.
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