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| Thread ID: 30436 | 2003-02-19 05:47:00 | 20gb Seagate stuck in PIO mode... ugh! | crummy (2524) | Press F1 |
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| 122395 | 2003-02-19 05:47:00 | Alright, after I got my computer back from getting a new BIOS chip (I did a bad flash, don't ask) I found my computer was booting *really* slowly. I checked device manager, and found that my HDD was stuck in PIO mode. Previously it was in UDMA5. As a side effect of this, I also get disconnected from the internet whenever there's a decent amount of HDD access. I've tried swapping power cables, swapping IDE cables, swapping jumpers (master and slave), changing it to PIO, restarting, changing it back to "DMA if available, installing latest VIA 4-in-1's, uninstalling the IDE cable (in device manager), uninstalling the HDD (in device manager), unplugging all other devices, changing my BIOS settings around, and ... thats about it. Frankly, I'm all out of ideas. I know that Windows automatically chagnes to PIO mode after 6 disk reading errors or somethign similar, which is solved by uninstalling the IDE cable in device manager. Which I've done. What can I do!? 20GB Seagate 7200RPM, capable of UDMA6 Asus A7V133-VM, capable of UDMA5 BIOS version 1008, set to use UDMA if available Windows XP Professional, set to use UDMA if available in device manager AMD XP 1800+ @ default clock Budget CDROM (can't remember brand), running in UDMA2 |
crummy (2524) | ||
| 122396 | 2003-02-19 06:37:00 | I know it is a silly question but I have to ask. You DO have an 80 wire cable installed don't you????? |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 122397 | 2003-02-19 19:20:00 | can't be that silly Elephant, i was going to ask the same question!! | roofus (483) | ||
| 122398 | 2003-02-20 05:09:00 | Well.. I'm not exactly sure what an 80 pin cable is. But what leads me to beleive that I do is that it was running in UDMA5 previously, with no change of IDE cable. And at the moment I'm running it on an IDE cable with my CDROM as well, which is running UDMA2. | crummy (2524) | ||
| 122399 | 2003-02-20 19:18:00 | Well if it is saying its running in PIO mode just before windows starts (that screen that comes up and tells your config) then its your BIOS thats saying PIO not windows. If this is the case then maybe this flash of the bios has resulted in drives been limited to PIO. You say that your cd-rom is running at UDMA2. I'm pretty sure this translates to PIO4 have a look on google. |
roofus (483) | ||
| 122400 | 2003-02-20 21:20:00 | have a look at this page (www.rojakpot.com) it may help. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 122401 | 2003-02-21 20:48:00 | Hrm... If I set secondary slave to AUTO in BIOS, then when I boot, the BIOS detects it as UDMA2. If I set secondary slave to User Type HDD, and manually set UDMA to 5, then when I boot, the BIOS detects it as UDMA5. So it must be a problem with Windows... Should I reinstall? | crummy (2524) | ||
| 122402 | 2003-02-26 03:48:00 | Dammit. Reinstalling windows didn't work. Dammit. I'm running out of options. |
crummy (2524) | ||
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