Computer Static & Lag Issue

[Chadder007]

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer

Originally posted by: Chadder007

Originally posted by: Coldkilla
Finished the first diagnostic. Took 7.5hrs for 60gbs of stuff.. Is it supposed to take that long?

7 hours....for 60 gigs?....no its not supposed to take nearly that long.

If it was the extended test then it would take a while, but not that long if it were the quick test it should have been done in 5 minutes. It sounds very much like a drive either being underpowered or going bad

Yeah that reminds me too....I had a Western Digital 100 gig drive one time that wouldn't report any errors with the drive utilities but it was WAY too slow. It finally just died after a few more months and I had to get a replacement. A few more months after, I had to replace the power supply..... Which may have attributed to the problem with the hard drive before.

 

[Coldkilla]

I'll switch the hard drives from C to D and D to C. How can this be done? The hard drives both came with 2 jumpers in each. I lost two of them when building the computer and now I am using the jumpers that came with the new hdd. I'll look into new power supplies. I need something stable, 110% reliable.. at what cost? As soon as I know how I will format the hard drives and somehow switch the drives so Windows is installed on my current D drive, soon to be my C Drive.

 

[Coldkilla]

So.. switching hard drives since they are both on the same jumper settings (since their western digital it don't matter I guess).. how do I switch the primary and secondary IDE's around?

 

[cjsm]

Well, I have a couple of suggestions.

Since the problems started after you installed a new hard drive, try unpluging it and see if it helps.

Have you got your jumper right? I bought a few Western Digitiial hard drives, and they have different jumper settings for single and master with slave. WTF. Most hard drives I've had have just on setting for both. Anyway, having a lot of drives in my computer, and frequently tinkering with it frequently, there have been times when I'd remove a slave from the Western Digital, or added a slave to a single, and it would boot real slow, act flakey, or not boot at all.

Most important and most likely, check your cables. Many computer problems are caused by loose cables, or less likely bad cables. A cable can seem to be in all the way but be out enough to not work right. I don't know how many time I've fixed my computer or one of my relatives computer simply by checking all the cables and pushing them in.

This reminds me of a test PC World (I think) ran some years ago. They took a computer and damaged the cable and took to repair shops to evaluate their computer service. Best Buy, compUSA, etc. Almost none of the techs identified the right problem. Almost all wanted to replace the hard drive, or maybe even the motherboard. I think 1 in 20 idenified the correct problem of a bad cable.

 

[CrispyFried]

Originally posted by: Coldkilla
I did the C and D drive diagnostics. Both Hard Drives PASSED.

How do I find that they are running in UDMA mode? I went into device manager under IDC controllers and I tried looking and the only thing related to any kinda 'mode' was:

C:/ Drive (Primary IDE Channel) --> Transfer Mode: Ultra DMA mode 5
D:/ Drive (Secondary IDE Channel) --> Transfer Mode: Not Applicable

Any other idea's guys?

Edit: This is what I see: Picture Link

It looks like your c drive is in pio mode (IE slow motion mode). go to the device manager and remove (delete) the primary ide channel and reboot. Windows will reinstall the primary ide channel and it should come up as UDMA 5