I'm having two errors with my new system and was hoping some of you might have some suggestions. I'm running Win 2k on a Microstar K7T Pro 2A, the IDE channels are populated as follows:
Channel 0 Master - IBM 75GXP 45 Gig
Channel 0 Slave - IBM 75GXP 45 Gig
Channel 1 Master - Pioneer DVD-115
Channel 1 Slave - Plextor 12/10/32A
Ok, the first problem is that the harddrives are stuck in PIO mode. They can be accessed just fine, but are slow as hell. The second problem which is actually quite similar. The Plextor seems to accept being switched from PIO only to DMA mode, but the machine gets stuck in a loop upon reboot. It gets past the two loading bars to the dialog box that states "Windows is loading up", but then promptly reboots. It appears to be an infinite loop, but I only let it run 3 times in sequence the first time.
Now, the problem as I see it can be faulted to either a bad IDE controller, or to the devices themselves. I've heard that the 75GXP's can be finicky when used with Win2k, so if anyone knows how to fix that particular problem please go ahead and post it. Any help is appreciated.
Channel 0 Master - IBM 75GXP 45 Gig
Channel 0 Slave - IBM 75GXP 45 Gig
Channel 1 Master - Pioneer DVD-115
Channel 1 Slave - Plextor 12/10/32A
Ok, the first problem is that the harddrives are stuck in PIO mode. They can be accessed just fine, but are slow as hell. The second problem which is actually quite similar. The Plextor seems to accept being switched from PIO only to DMA mode, but the machine gets stuck in a loop upon reboot. It gets past the two loading bars to the dialog box that states "Windows is loading up", but then promptly reboots. It appears to be an infinite loop, but I only let it run 3 times in sequence the first time.
Now, the problem as I see it can be faulted to either a bad IDE controller, or to the devices themselves. I've heard that the 75GXP's can be finicky when used with Win2k, so if anyone knows how to fix that particular problem please go ahead and post it. Any help is appreciated.
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