Ok everyone, here's the deal with what's going on:
I'm running the 40gb IBM 60gxp Deskstar on my MSI K7T Pro-2a (no overclocking or anything like that) w/ 512mb of pc133 RAM. Basically, whenever the harddrive does anything intensive (opening a large program/game, installing said large program/game, etc.) the system slows down, and the install/open goes much slower than it should. I say than it should because this only started happening about a month back after a recent format. I just formatted again today, and the same thing is happening. Have the latest VIA 4in1's installed, and I'm going to go get the newest BIOS (in case they've updated again) in just a sec to see if that helps, though the system has worked just fine in the past under this version. I also downloaded VIA's IDE improvement program thing, and it says that the drive is running is ATA100 as it should be. So what I'm wondering is what exactly the problem is...IBM's disk troubleshooting program says that the disk doesn't have any problems, but I'm not sure how trustworthy that is. My guess is that it's either the disk or the mobo/southbridge that's crapping out on me, but I'm wondering if there isn't some strange software setting or glitch that's going on now, and that didn't start occuring until recently. Any ideas to improve performance/stop the slowdown when the harddrive is going to work?
Symptoms of slowdown include:
Mouse (USB Optical) cursor slows waaaaaay down/jumps around the screen
Decompression (MP3's) and installations can take waaaaay too long
I end up very, very po'd
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
I'm running the 40gb IBM 60gxp Deskstar on my MSI K7T Pro-2a (no overclocking or anything like that) w/ 512mb of pc133 RAM. Basically, whenever the harddrive does anything intensive (opening a large program/game, installing said large program/game, etc.) the system slows down, and the install/open goes much slower than it should. I say than it should because this only started happening about a month back after a recent format. I just formatted again today, and the same thing is happening. Have the latest VIA 4in1's installed, and I'm going to go get the newest BIOS (in case they've updated again) in just a sec to see if that helps, though the system has worked just fine in the past under this version. I also downloaded VIA's IDE improvement program thing, and it says that the drive is running is ATA100 as it should be. So what I'm wondering is what exactly the problem is...IBM's disk troubleshooting program says that the disk doesn't have any problems, but I'm not sure how trustworthy that is. My guess is that it's either the disk or the mobo/southbridge that's crapping out on me, but I'm wondering if there isn't some strange software setting or glitch that's going on now, and that didn't start occuring until recently. Any ideas to improve performance/stop the slowdown when the harddrive is going to work?
Symptoms of slowdown include:
Mouse (USB Optical) cursor slows waaaaaay down/jumps around the screen
Decompression (MP3's) and installations can take waaaaay too long
I end up very, very po'd
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
