Added new Seagate HD, and my comp seems 'sluggish'--HELP

[thatsright]

Hi All.

Right now I have a Western Digital Caviar SE 120GB w/ 8MB cache. It holds XP Pro, Games and data files. I had a Maxtor 80GB HD w/ 2MB Cache. But I just replaced it with a Seagate 200GB HD w/ 8MB Cache. All drives were 7,200RPM.

But now my PC seems a bit sluggish or something....?? Almost like I'm running out of RAM or something, even though I have a full gig of ram. Before I installed the Seagate drive, I had both my WD hard drive, and the Maxtor HD set to 'AUTO' mode in my IC7 Bios. Now I set both the WD & Seagate HD to 'LBA' Mode. Would this slow things down? In XP, in the device manager, for both drives they are set to DMA Mode 5.

Anyone have any ideas of why its a bit slower now? Thanks

 

[mechBgon]

Why did you change them to LBA mode?

 

[thatsright]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
Why did you change them to LBA mode?

Because the Seagate manual recommends setting up the HD to LBA Mode. And then I looked in the WD Manual and it recommends that as well. But before I just had the IC7 BIOS set both to 'AUTO.'

 

[MercenaryForHire]

AUTO. Always, always, ALWAYS (unless it doesn't work!) use AUTO for the addressing type.

- M4H

 

[jamesbond007]

Is the WD set for Master, Slave, or Cable Select? How about the Seagate? If they're on CS, manually set them to what they should be.

In my experience, WDs have been problematic with the MA, SL, and CS settings. They seem to be picky.

 

[thatsright]

Originally posted by: jamesbond007
Is the WD set for Master, Slave, or Cable Select? How about the Seagate? If they're on CS, manually set them to what they should be.

In my experience, WDs have been problematic with the MA, SL, and CS settings. They seem to be picky.

Well the WD is set to Master, and the Seagate to Slave. But I just re-set the IC7 BIOS back to 'AUTO' everything. Seems to of picked up a wee bit of speed...