I posted in the general hardware forum about my problem. Below is my system configuration which has been running flawlessly for almost a year up until a few days ago
Soyo-6BA+100 Mobo
Pentium III-600MHz (coppermine)
256MB PC133
IBM 34GXP 20.5GB 7200RPM ATA66 attached to
Primary IDE port of Highpoint 370.
3COM EtherLink XL 3C900B-TPO
Aureal II soundcard
Windows 2000
I have this problem where certain access to the harddive would cause my computer to stutter. It occurs frequently and is very very annoying. This stutter causes my mouse to jerk around the screen when i'm moving it. It causes sounds/music to skip tremendously and causes cd burns to fail when it happens. This problem started a few days ago when my brother accidentally turned off the computer in the middle of downloading and uploading files without going into shutdown. At first I figured it was just Windows. I did a low level format using ibm's utility and proceeded to reinstall win2k. But it didn't fix the problem.. Mostly throughout the setup, the mouse was jerking around while I was moving it. It still happens. My next thought is that the harddrive was malfunctioning. Even though a ran advance tests using ibm's diagnostic utility which gave no errors, I decided to buy a 30GB Maxtor DiamondMAX plus 60. It came with a free 128MB of pc133 ram. I unplugged my ibm drive and plugged in the maxtor (with its own ata66/100 cable) into the secondary ide port of the highpoint. Formatted..went through setup.. and again! Same stuttering problem! I even tried setting up windows without any pci devices and with only the new ram I got. STILL! So i ruled out the harddrives, ide cables, and memory as being the culprit. The only two variables left are the P3-600 Chip and the motherboard. I really don't think it is the P3 because it always runs cool. I would also like to add three key factors. My HP-9300i started having problem reading cd's when the "enable digital audio for this device" was checked. I believe it started right when the stuttering problem began. I've always had "enable digital audio for this device" checked before with NO problems. I also went out a bought a SIIG ATA100 I/O card and tried that. I still had the stupid stuttering problem. Lastly, when I connected either the newly purchased Maxtor HD or IBM HD to the standard ata33 ide ports, the stuttering was FIXED. However, the system runs too slowly for my tastes. Let me note that I did use the ibm feature tool to change the drive from udma 33 to udma 66 when neccessary. Any thoughts or suggestiions would be appreciated. I figure I would go out and buy the Abit be6-II rev2.0, but i'm scared the problem will still occur.
Soyo-6BA+100 Mobo
Pentium III-600MHz (coppermine)
256MB PC133
IBM 34GXP 20.5GB 7200RPM ATA66 attached to
Primary IDE port of Highpoint 370.
3COM EtherLink XL 3C900B-TPO
Aureal II soundcard
Windows 2000
I have this problem where certain access to the harddive would cause my computer to stutter. It occurs frequently and is very very annoying. This stutter causes my mouse to jerk around the screen when i'm moving it. It causes sounds/music to skip tremendously and causes cd burns to fail when it happens. This problem started a few days ago when my brother accidentally turned off the computer in the middle of downloading and uploading files without going into shutdown. At first I figured it was just Windows. I did a low level format using ibm's utility and proceeded to reinstall win2k. But it didn't fix the problem.. Mostly throughout the setup, the mouse was jerking around while I was moving it. It still happens. My next thought is that the harddrive was malfunctioning. Even though a ran advance tests using ibm's diagnostic utility which gave no errors, I decided to buy a 30GB Maxtor DiamondMAX plus 60. It came with a free 128MB of pc133 ram. I unplugged my ibm drive and plugged in the maxtor (with its own ata66/100 cable) into the secondary ide port of the highpoint. Formatted..went through setup.. and again! Same stuttering problem! I even tried setting up windows without any pci devices and with only the new ram I got. STILL! So i ruled out the harddrives, ide cables, and memory as being the culprit. The only two variables left are the P3-600 Chip and the motherboard. I really don't think it is the P3 because it always runs cool. I would also like to add three key factors. My HP-9300i started having problem reading cd's when the "enable digital audio for this device" was checked. I believe it started right when the stuttering problem began. I've always had "enable digital audio for this device" checked before with NO problems. I also went out a bought a SIIG ATA100 I/O card and tried that. I still had the stupid stuttering problem. Lastly, when I connected either the newly purchased Maxtor HD or IBM HD to the standard ata33 ide ports, the stuttering was FIXED. However, the system runs too slowly for my tastes. Let me note that I did use the ibm feature tool to change the drive from udma 33 to udma 66 when neccessary. Any thoughts or suggestiions would be appreciated. I figure I would go out and buy the Abit be6-II rev2.0, but i'm scared the problem will still occur.
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