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Thread ID: 47858	2004-08-07 09:02:00	Hard disks on separate IDE controllers	Term_X (560)	Press F1

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259232	2004-08-07 16:34:00	> my board is brand new ga-7n400-l and my hard disks > are both seagate 7200 rpm barracuda around a year > old.. so should be fine? and also how do u know if a > drive is PIO mode? So how do you get into your BIOS. Normally the <DEL> key on boot depending once more on the hardware. Usually leave everything at auto. But to find why something may be on PIO the BIOS may be a place to go. If you don't have the right drivers for your motherboard and an older CDWriter and depending on your Operating system we may not be able to help. It just may be that the CDWriter you have runs in PIO mode. It's like getting blood out of a stone here. Remember that you are in front of your computer and I can't see from here what you can see on your monitor or screen as the case may be. So going further down the posts I note that you have a brand new motherboard. I note that you have two Seagate 7200 hard drives but nowhere do I see what Make and Model CDWriter do you have. I note that the Motherboard is new but the hard drives are about 1 year old. Would you like to tell us what make/model CDWriter you have connected? Was the brand new motherboard inserted by you or done by a technician? Either way were all motherboard driver loaded immediately after installing whatever your operating system is?	Elephant (599)
259233	2004-08-07 17:05:00	oh right a few more details system is amd xp3200 running win xp pro with 256 megs ddr ram.. cd writer is an asus 40 x 12 x 48 about a year old and installed by myself and yeps all mobo drivers were installed after install of OS.. i can get into the bios easily is that where u check if the hard drives and writer are in PIO mode?	Term_X (560)
259234	2004-08-07 22:50:00	Try Device Manager, IDE Channels, Properties, Advanced or something like that. Should show what mode each device is using. If the system is transfering between devices on different channels, that may be faster because it can access each drive simultaneously rather than sequentially.	PaulD (232)
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