I have been having a nightmare with my HTPC lately, and was wondering if it had something to do with my SATA settings in the BIOS?
The system is based around a Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H motherboard running the latest BIOS and catalyst 8.12 and has 3 SATA drives of varying sizes. Im convinced it is something to do with the HDD's as with a fresh install of XP, any activity that uses the disks brings the machine to a halt. Transferring files between drives takes far too long and it took me 17 mins to transfer a 17Mb file from a USB stick to the system drive. Unpacking SP3 to install it took over an hour
Other symptoms include not being able to use timeshifting with liveTV etc etc
I hope you can see where I am coming from.
Al the drives were fine on my old asus mobo, running in SATA raid 1 mode
When I go into the BIOS, I have 3 options for SATA
Native IDE mode - nope, dont want to use it
SATA RAID - didn't select this as I was not intending to RAID the drives
AHCI - chose this option and XP is running like a dog
Can I use SATA RAID mode without actually having to raid the drives?
Im thinking perhaps I have the wrong mode set and that is causing me problems?
The system is based around a Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H motherboard running the latest BIOS and catalyst 8.12 and has 3 SATA drives of varying sizes. Im convinced it is something to do with the HDD's as with a fresh install of XP, any activity that uses the disks brings the machine to a halt. Transferring files between drives takes far too long and it took me 17 mins to transfer a 17Mb file from a USB stick to the system drive. Unpacking SP3 to install it took over an hour
Other symptoms include not being able to use timeshifting with liveTV etc etc
I hope you can see where I am coming from.
Al the drives were fine on my old asus mobo, running in SATA raid 1 mode
When I go into the BIOS, I have 3 options for SATA
Native IDE mode - nope, dont want to use it
SATA RAID - didn't select this as I was not intending to RAID the drives
AHCI - chose this option and XP is running like a dog
Can I use SATA RAID mode without actually having to raid the drives?
Im thinking perhaps I have the wrong mode set and that is causing me problems?
