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| Thread ID: 66123 | 2006-02-12 01:37:00 | hdd working very slowly | dirtbag (6060) | Press F1 |
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| 429366 | 2006-02-12 01:37:00 | I currently have a 80gb WD hardrive on my primary IDE (nforce 4 sli mobo) and its running insanely slow, about 16MB/s on benchmarks, tried the obvious, switching it to secondary, making sure its not on the wretched PIO mode. The computer becomes unusable if i try put anything large on it as everything seems to start caching in the ram (the free physical mem in task manager goes rock bottom) I have a GB of ram, but only about 20megs free when Im transferring larger files. Both my 250gb WD and 80GB WD (both satas) work fine, and also no problems with my dvd writer Any way to get the hdd to work properly? Any help would be much appreciated! |
dirtbag (6060) | ||
| 429367 | 2006-02-12 01:44:00 | have you checked what the bios is set to? checked the drive with WD drive tools? checked the IDE lead (80 wire and not damaged)? tried slaving it to the DVD ? what size swap file are you running? |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 429368 | 2006-02-12 02:06:00 | argh, been trying to fix this problem all day, and the second I post guess what? It starts working again!! I restarted and the bios didnt pick it up, so I turned the computer off, turned it back on about ten seconds later, HDD gets picked up by bios fine, and now its running full speed again! I had tried restarting about 10 times beforehand to change where it sat with jumpers/cables/power molexes. So typical of computers haha |
dirtbag (6060) | ||
| 429369 | 2006-02-12 02:09:00 | check the pins of the power molex, i've had the odd problem where the pin is a bit loose causeing low power to the drive resulting in random problems. | tweak'e (69) | ||
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