Re: What is wrong with my SATA drive?

On 13 Sep 2006 13:56:30 -0700, bab53c@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hello all,

I recently replaced my system's IDE hard drive with a new Western
Digital SATA 3.0 g/b drive from newegg. I then did a clean install of
XP Pro.

Everything is working fine, however this SATA drive is MUCH slower then
my previous IDE (7200 rpm) drive which makes me think something is
either wrong with it or my motherboard's SATA controller.

The Windows loading screen used to take about 10 seconds with my IDE
drive - with the SATA drive it takes around 40. Large games that used
to take five minutes or so to install are now taking 20 - 30 minutes.

I've also checked using the Windows Task Manager that whenever one of
these heavy hard disk usage things is going on the CPU usage goes to
100%. No abormal processes running, Windows says it is System Idle that
is using it.

Any ideas what would cause this? Is it most likely the drive or the
controller? Other then the crappy speeds my system is working great.

I also should point out that my motherboard does not support SATA 3.0
g/b drives and I had to put a jumper on the drive to bump it down to
1.5 g/bs so the BIOS would recognize it.

My system:

-Windows XP Professional w/ SP2 & all updates
-AMD 64 3400+
-1.5 GB DDR-3200 RAM (1.0 GB & 512MB)
-Radeon X800 Pro 256MB AGP Video
-MSI MS-6741 (K8MV Series) Motherboard w/ latest BIOS

thanks,
Ed


Did you install your mainboard's chipset drivers?
.

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