New IDE hard drive lags

tiam · 11-06-2007, 03:14 PM

Hello! I have brought a new IDE hard drive about a week ago with 320 gb capacity. I copied most fomy media files there. Now i am having problems with it. For example my music and video lag a lot, if i dl a torrent on the new drive the sustem starts lagging showing me that hardware interrupts take up 90% of my CPU. Same thing if i run Diskeeper. Any ideas what this might be?

**Deleted090308** · 11-07-2007, 02:02 AM

Hi, welcome to TSF

Make sure DMA mode is enabled for the drive (in Device Manager).

tiam · 11-07-2007, 09:45 AM

Checked on that, DMA mode was enabled already

**Deleted090308** · 11-07-2007, 10:00 AM

What drives do you have installed (IDE/SATA)?
How are they hooked up (master/slave)?
If you're not using an 80-wire ribbon cable - replace it.
What motherboard?

**linderman** · 11-07-2007, 02:23 PM

have you tried a full system scan with an anti virus program

just for the heck of it / I would try the trial version of AVast its one of the few that can scan in safe mode (sweeeeeeeet)

also / try downloading and running memtest86.com (free) run that for at least two hours

11-06-2007, 03:14 PM	#1 (permalink)
tiam Registered User Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 3 OS: Windows XP SP1	New IDE hard drive lags Hello! I have brought a new IDE hard drive about a week ago with 320 gb capacity. I copied most fomy media files there. Now i am having problems with it. For example my music and video lag a lot, if i dl a torrent on the new drive the sustem starts lagging showing me that hardware interrupts take up 90% of my CPU. Same thing if i run Diskeeper. Any ideas what this might be?

11-07-2007, 02:02 AM	#2 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: New IDE hard drive lags Hi, welcome to TSF Make sure DMA mode is enabled for the drive (in Device Manager).

11-07-2007, 09:45 AM	#3 (permalink)
tiam Registered User Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 3 OS: Windows XP SP1	Re: New IDE hard drive lags Checked on that, DMA mode was enabled already

11-07-2007, 10:00 AM	#4 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: New IDE hard drive lags What drives do you have installed (IDE/SATA)? How are they hooked up (master/slave)? If you're not using an 80-wire ribbon cable - replace it. What motherboard?

11-07-2007, 02:23 PM	#5 (permalink)
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