DS3P

kanako

kanako

kanako

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Hi i have a gigabyte DS3P i brought it last may

recently i had a issue with my comp thought it could have been a virus XP pro was taking 30 blue bars to load i tried virus sweeps and everthing to no avail then i remember i had HDTACH installed and thought why not.

turned out that the sata port 1 that my hdd was plugged into was only goin at 4.3MB/s i didnt check my dvd drive which is also sata which was in sata port 2 (the yellow ones)

i moved both devices into the purple sata ports and the speed of the hdd went back to 221MB/s so i thought great its just the yellow ones that are messed up well atleast i thought that.

untill i came to burn a cd and noticed my pioneer 212 was showing as a scsi drive which it didnt do in the other port so i tried moving both the hdd and the dvd drive into the yellow ports again but 3 and 4 instead and the hdd speed was up at 221MB/s again and the dvd drive was showing correctly im not sure what settings to put in the bios TBH so if anyone could advise on that would be great. im running a single 500gb sataII hdd with a pioneer 212 which is also sata but i have my old 120gb drive on the ide port i dont want no raid.

i was just curious to everyone thoughts to weather it could just be a issue with the windows install to if the driver that is running sata 1 has become corrupt so to speak to make it slow or if the port itself has fried. if that makes any sence what so ever.

i hope this makes sence as im not that great at seeking help as i usually just jump in and troubleshoot myself and find the issue then google a fix and do it lol.

thanks for readin sorry its long winded :)
 
The yellow ports are all running off the same controller so if you have the correct drivers installed and assuming there's no fault then they should all run disks at the same speed. I have my 2 HDDs connected to port 0 and port 1 on my mobo with no probs.

Try running just the HD on port 0 with the DVD drive disconnected and see what happens.
 
i just tested all of the ports yellow and purple with just the hdd no dvd drive and they all come in at 220mb/s except 1 which is sataII3 acording to the book which is where both devices were fitted and workin fine untill the slowdown happened and i moved them to another set of yellow ports
 
I know that IDE disks can be slowed down by Windows if it detects a problem but not too sure about SATA to be honest, think you'll have to wait till somebody more knowledgeable posts :)
 
yeah i think your right lol

its just weird as the ports are all in blocks of 2 but its just the one port out of the lot that is slow
 
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