clinton

PC:

P4 3.0GHZ HT
2GB RAM
9600XT 256 Video
2x DVD RW LG Drives
1x 250GB Sata2 Drive - 2x Paritions - C: o/s
1x 300GB Samsung IDE drive 1x Partition - Movies

Since the 2nd hdd has been put into my machine it slows down the whole system to basic grinding hault whenever I access anything on the 2nd hard drive. With having movies on it, the machine plays these movies very slowly, sometimes half the speed needed and seems to be worse with the bigger files that it plays (higher khz)

These problems are non existant when the 2nd HDD is removed.

Also takes my PC nearly three times longer to boot up from startup.

Can anyone help?

pt121984

Have you tried going into the Bios and where you set it to SATA, try setting it to SATA + PATA to see if it helps. You didn't say what board you have, but in my Asus P5DGC it has this option and might help, you can always go back and set it back to SATA only. Also, I had this exact problem when I installed more then 1 SATA drive on that same board I mentioned before and a Bios Flash completely cleared it up.

Patrick

clinton

Give me 2 mins and I'll have a quick look.

BRB

geek73

Howdy Clinton and Welcome to TSF,

Also what rating is your power supply? If it only does this when your second hard drive is put in may be over exerting it.

clinton

Power supply is a Atrix 650T which is 600watt

Motherboard is a Asus PSP800

Can't find where it wants me to change those above options in setup.

clinton

Sorry, this is my board here:

http://au.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1...66&modelmenu=1

pt121984

It's under IDE Configuration on the main page. Onboard IDE Operate mode. Under Enhanced Mode Support On. It is right there. It should be set to SATA, but you also have the option to set to SATA + Pata. I set mine to this but it made no difference, but the Bios Update did.

What Bios revision are you running?

Patrick

dai

check the drive is running in dma mode

clinton

Thanks for all your help gents.

Changed it to sata + pata mode and it changed nothing. Will try the DMA mode, how is this achieved?

dai

in the device manager go into properties for the drive and tick the box
enable dma when available
go deeper into the properties box and check what it is running as
dma or pio

pt121984

Which Bios revision are you running?

Patrick

clinton

There is no option in device manage that lets you select that :(

pt121984

Under IDE ATA/Atapi Controllers. Open that and then go to the IDE Channel your hard drive is on and you will find it.

Patrick

dai

you double click on the drives listing

clinton

They're all set to use dma when available.

If it helps...

It is first noticeably slow when it has finished checking the S.M.A.R.T on the bios.

No idea whatsoever what version of bios I'm running. Which is the easyest way to find out?

dai

it will be listed on the bottom of one of the post screens or use this
http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php

clinton

General Information :
Manufacturer : ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
Product : P5P800
Version : Rev 1.xx
Serial Number : MB-1234567890
Support MP : Yes, 1 CPU(s)
Version MPS : 1.1

Chassis Information :
Manufacturer : Chassis Manufacture
Type : Desktop
Version : Chassis Version
Serial Number : Chassis Serial Number
Asset : Asset-1234567890

Sensor Information :
Monitoring Chip : Winbond W83627EHF/EHG

On-Board Device Information :
Device : Marvell 88E8001 (Ethernet)

Slots Information :
Slot AGP 8X : In Use (32-bit) 3.3v
Slot PCI : Available (32-bit) 5.0v, 3.3v
Slot PCI : Available (32-bit) 5.0v, 3.3v
Slot PCI : Available (32-bit) 5.0v, 3.3v
Slot PCI : Available (32-bit) 5.0v, 3.3v
Slot PCI : Available (32-bit) 5.0v, 3.3v

External Connectors :
Mouse : PS/2
Keyboard : PS/2
USB : Access Bus (USB)
USB : Access Bus (USB)
USB : Access Bus (USB)
USB : Access Bus (USB)
USB : Access Bus (USB)
USB : Access Bus (USB)
USB : Access Bus (USB)
USB : Access Bus (USB)
Parallel ECP/EPP : DB25 male
Serial 16550A Compatible : DB-9 male
Serial 16550A Compatible : DB-9 male
MIDI : DB-15 female
Joystick : DB-15 female
Audio : Mini-jack (headphones)
Audio : Mini-jack (headphones)
Audio : Mini-jack (headphones)
Network : RJ-45

clinton

General Information :
SMART : Version 1.1
IDE Controller : Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) EIDE Controller
IDE Controller : Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller

Informations Hard Disk WDC WD2500JS-22NCB1 :
Model : WDC WD2500JS-22NCB1
Serial Number : WD-WCANK2704041
Revision : 10.02E02
Serial ATA : Yes
Serial ATA version : 2.0
Support : ATA/ATAPI-7
Size : 250 GB
Cache : 8 192 KB
ECC Size : 50
Multiple Sector : 16
IORDY : Yes
LBA Mode : Yes
DMA Mode : Yes
TCQ Mode : No
NCQ Mode : Yes
Multiword DMA Mode : 2
PIO Mode : PIO 4
UDMA Mode max. : 6 (ATA-133)
UDMA Mode Enabled : 5 (ATA-100)
SMART : Yes - Enabled
Power Management : Yes
Acoustic Management : Yes
Security Mode : Yes
Trusted Computing : No
Write Cache : Yes
48-bit Address : Yes
Cylinders : 484521
Heads : 16
Sectors per Track : 63

SMART Information Disk pcwraid :
Health : 100% (estimated)
Performance : 96% (estimated)

Raw Read Error Rate (01) : 00000 (Threshold : 051 - Worst : 100 - Max : 253)
Spin Up Time (03) : 01F40 (Threshold : 015 - Worst : 100 - Max : 100)
Start/Stop Count (04) : 001BB (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 100 - Max : 100)
Reallocated Sector Count (05) : 00000 (Threshold : 010 - Worst : 253 - Max : 253)
Seek Error Rate (07) : 00000 (Threshold : 051 - Worst : 253 - Max : 253)
Seek Time Performance (08) : 00000 (Threshold : 015 - Worst : 253 - Max : 253)
Power On Hours Count (09) : 00427 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 100 - Max : 100)
Spin Retry Count (0A) : 00000 (Threshold : 051 - Worst : 253 - Max : 253)
Calibration Retry Count (0B) : 00000 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 253 - Max : 253)
Power Cycle Count (0C) : 00116 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 100 - Max : 100)
(BE) : 00014 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 069 - Max : 080)
Temperature (C2) : 00014 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 145 - Max : 178)
Hardware ECC Recovered (C3) : 01BA2 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 100 - Max : 100)
Reallocation Event Count (C4) : 00000 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 253 - Max : 253)
Current Pending Sector Count (C5) : 00000 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 253 - Max : 253)
Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Cou... 00000 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 253 - Max : 253)
Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate (C7) : 00028 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 200 - Max : 200)
Write Error Rate (C8) : 00000 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 100 - Max : 253)
(C9) : 00000 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 100 - Max : 253)

SMART Information Disk WDC WD2500JS-22NCB1 :
Health : 99% (estimated)
Performance : 90% (estimated)

Raw Read Error Rate (01) : 00000 (Threshold : 051 - Worst : 200 - Max : 200)
Spin Up Time (03) : 00F8F (Threshold : 021 - Worst : 193 - Max : 220)
Start/Stop Count (04) : 0028C (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 100 - Max : 100)
Reallocated Sector Count (05) : 00000 (Threshold : 140 - Worst : 200 - Max : 200)
Seek Error Rate (07) : 00000 (Threshold : 051 - Worst : 200 - Max : 200)
Power On Hours Count (09) : 00C20 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 096 - Max : 096)
Spin Retry Count (0A) : 00000 (Threshold : 051 - Worst : 100 - Max : 100)
Calibration Retry Count (0B) : 00000 (Threshold : 051 - Worst : 100 - Max : 100)
Power Cycle Count (0C) : 00284 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 100 - Max : 100)
(BE) : 00030 (Threshold : 045 - Worst : 025 - Max : 052)
Temperature (C2) : 00030 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 075 - Max : 102)
Reallocation Event Count (C4) : 00000 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 200 - Max : 200)
Current Pending Sector Count (C5) : 00000 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 200 - Max : 200)
Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Cou... 00000 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 200 - Max : 200)
Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate (C7) : 00000 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 200 - Max : 200)
Write Error Rate (C8) : 00000 (Threshold : 051 - Worst : 200 - Max : 200)

Partitions :
Hard Disk #1 : Partition #1 (279 GB)
Hard

geek73

JUst a suggestion but turn smart off.. Dont need it and is usally never curate..

dai

when you added the second h/d did you reset the jumper on the first drive to master with slave