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Hello.
As the title says, I'm pretty sure I'm experiencing hard drive lag. When I load up a program, or a file off this particular drive things slow down, a lot. I've had the drive just over one year and six months, so hopefully this rules it out being faulty. It's one of three internal drives I currently have installed. Below are some fixes which I've tried but haven't had any luck with. These have been very challenging for me, as I'm quite the illiterate technophobe.
- reinstalled & updated chipset drivers
- updated BIOS
- reinstalled & updated IDE drivers
- reinstalled & updated graphics card drivers
- physically removed RAM from machine, placed back in
- checked all internal connections
- checked, unchecked DMA & PIO settings through Device Manager
- checked suitable power options via Control Panel ('never' on hard drives going asleep)
- Thought it might be a power issue. Unplugged the machine adapter from 4-way extension cable, to its own direct socket thinking it might get more juice. Have experienced 'disk write error' before because of a related power incident...
I've been trying to work through these alternatives before hashing out on a format (assuming that would even solve the problem?), as backing up off this disk before deletion will be a real pain. Below is my current specification:
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AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ 2.50 Ghz
3.25 GB of RAM
Microsoft Windows XP Professional, SP 2
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
ASUSTeK Computer INC. M2A-VM HDMI 1.XX Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
Hitachi 160 GB
ST320410A 20.40 GB
ST3500418AS 500.11 GB <--- This drive
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Finally, would some sort of log be useful?
Thanks for your help.
As the title says, I'm pretty sure I'm experiencing hard drive lag. When I load up a program, or a file off this particular drive things slow down, a lot. I've had the drive just over one year and six months, so hopefully this rules it out being faulty. It's one of three internal drives I currently have installed. Below are some fixes which I've tried but haven't had any luck with. These have been very challenging for me, as I'm quite the illiterate technophobe.
- reinstalled & updated chipset drivers
- updated BIOS
- reinstalled & updated IDE drivers
- reinstalled & updated graphics card drivers
- physically removed RAM from machine, placed back in
- checked all internal connections
- checked, unchecked DMA & PIO settings through Device Manager
- checked suitable power options via Control Panel ('never' on hard drives going asleep)
- Thought it might be a power issue. Unplugged the machine adapter from 4-way extension cable, to its own direct socket thinking it might get more juice. Have experienced 'disk write error' before because of a related power incident...
I've been trying to work through these alternatives before hashing out on a format (assuming that would even solve the problem?), as backing up off this disk before deletion will be a real pain. Below is my current specification:
-------------------------------------------------------------
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ 2.50 Ghz
3.25 GB of RAM
Microsoft Windows XP Professional, SP 2
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
ASUSTeK Computer INC. M2A-VM HDMI 1.XX Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
Hitachi 160 GB
ST320410A 20.40 GB
ST3500418AS 500.11 GB <--- This drive
--------------------------------------------
Finally, would some sort of log be useful?
Thanks for your help.