Hello Overclockers! I'm hoping someone here can help me with a problem I'm having with my home PC.
I've recently replaced my motherboard with an ASRock P4M800 - not great, but all I could really afford and get my hands on quickly at the moment, and it should be good enough for me. I also upgraded from a GeForce 6600GT to a 6800GS, as I could get one of these on a special offer.
The PC is working great - I've reformatted and done a clean XP Pro install, put on all the mobo, GFX, sound card drivers etc... Apart from one wee niggle - the hard drive access is painfully slow.
I have a Samsung SP2004C SATA HDD (not running in RAID or anything fancy, just one HDD plugged into the SATA1 controller). I have tried every possible fix I can find on google searches and Samsung's 'wonderful' website. Has anyone got any clever ideas? It's taking me > 5 minutes to load a level on F.E.A.R., which is more scary than the game. It takes an age to boot into Windows. The PC flies until it tries to read or write to the HDD.
This was not a problem prior to the reformat.
And with all the jargon flying about with ATA and IDE, SCSI and RAID, PIO and UDMA I don't know what is going on any more!!
Does DMA mode still apply to a SATA drive? If so, the drive should support DMA7, but the mobo only DMA6. Still, it shouldn't be this slow.
Should my SATA drive show up in Control Panel>System>Device Manager under the Primary IDE Manager? And should the access here be PIO mode even if 'DMA if possible' selected - I've identified both the CD and DVD burners amongst the other Primary/Secondary IDE manager possibilities... So could this other mysterious IDE Device be the HDD? PIO mode would certainly explain the slowdown; changing to PIO Mode Only doesn't make any difference. Uninstalling the IDE Manager bits in Device Manager and letting Windows reinstall on boot makes no difference. I've checked the BIOS settings many times.
Please Help!!
I've recently replaced my motherboard with an ASRock P4M800 - not great, but all I could really afford and get my hands on quickly at the moment, and it should be good enough for me. I also upgraded from a GeForce 6600GT to a 6800GS, as I could get one of these on a special offer.
The PC is working great - I've reformatted and done a clean XP Pro install, put on all the mobo, GFX, sound card drivers etc... Apart from one wee niggle - the hard drive access is painfully slow.
I have a Samsung SP2004C SATA HDD (not running in RAID or anything fancy, just one HDD plugged into the SATA1 controller). I have tried every possible fix I can find on google searches and Samsung's 'wonderful' website. Has anyone got any clever ideas? It's taking me > 5 minutes to load a level on F.E.A.R., which is more scary than the game. It takes an age to boot into Windows. The PC flies until it tries to read or write to the HDD.
This was not a problem prior to the reformat.
And with all the jargon flying about with ATA and IDE, SCSI and RAID, PIO and UDMA I don't know what is going on any more!!
Does DMA mode still apply to a SATA drive? If so, the drive should support DMA7, but the mobo only DMA6. Still, it shouldn't be this slow.
Should my SATA drive show up in Control Panel>System>Device Manager under the Primary IDE Manager? And should the access here be PIO mode even if 'DMA if possible' selected - I've identified both the CD and DVD burners amongst the other Primary/Secondary IDE manager possibilities... So could this other mysterious IDE Device be the HDD? PIO mode would certainly explain the slowdown; changing to PIO Mode Only doesn't make any difference. Uninstalling the IDE Manager bits in Device Manager and letting Windows reinstall on boot makes no difference. I've checked the BIOS settings many times.
Please Help!!
. Not so sure about what the problem with the speed is though :\.