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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148274
I got it a little over a year ago. I have done NOTHING to my BIOS. And when I recently checked it, it said the drive was the third master, and LBA and 32 bit access were enabled. The SATA controller is working fine. Have not overclocked anything, ever.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813135097
Thats my motherboard. Not exactly top of the line but its been great so far. Bought it along with the hard drive for a practically new system. Reinstalled Windows XP with SP2 fresh. Installed SP3 right away before any games or utilities. Installed the latest motherboard drivers right after that. For a whole year the drive has been running smoothly with no issues.
Havent done anything to my system in a long time. The only unusual activity is a lot of STEAM downloading since I got the THQ collectors pack. But I have only downloaded a couple of those games so far. Probably 5 gigs max. And it was over a period of 2 weeks. I dont think thats too much to ask of a 1TB hard drive that has been used exclusively for gaming for a year.
I do not manually mess with my swap file, and I have 2GB of RAM.
As of just last night, the hard drive is painfully slow. Booting up takes forever, games take a ridiculously long time to load, and the defrag ran all night and only got the the 17% mark. It has 580 GB free out of 930 GB.
What happened? Why did hard drive performance suddely drop? I only have one other drive, a DVD. They are both SATA.
I dont think it matters, but normally I dont shut down the machine, I just put it into hibernate. Also, the normal noise it makes has quieted to almost a whisper, which tells me the platters arent spinning as fast as they used to. Kinda nice, except for the performance problem.
Last time I checked the device manager, write caching is enabled. But it always has been and I never mess with that either.
I got it a little over a year ago. I have done NOTHING to my BIOS. And when I recently checked it, it said the drive was the third master, and LBA and 32 bit access were enabled. The SATA controller is working fine. Have not overclocked anything, ever.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813135097
Thats my motherboard. Not exactly top of the line but its been great so far. Bought it along with the hard drive for a practically new system. Reinstalled Windows XP with SP2 fresh. Installed SP3 right away before any games or utilities. Installed the latest motherboard drivers right after that. For a whole year the drive has been running smoothly with no issues.
Havent done anything to my system in a long time. The only unusual activity is a lot of STEAM downloading since I got the THQ collectors pack. But I have only downloaded a couple of those games so far. Probably 5 gigs max. And it was over a period of 2 weeks. I dont think thats too much to ask of a 1TB hard drive that has been used exclusively for gaming for a year.
I do not manually mess with my swap file, and I have 2GB of RAM.
As of just last night, the hard drive is painfully slow. Booting up takes forever, games take a ridiculously long time to load, and the defrag ran all night and only got the the 17% mark. It has 580 GB free out of 930 GB.
What happened? Why did hard drive performance suddely drop? I only have one other drive, a DVD. They are both SATA.
I dont think it matters, but normally I dont shut down the machine, I just put it into hibernate. Also, the normal noise it makes has quieted to almost a whisper, which tells me the platters arent spinning as fast as they used to. Kinda nice, except for the performance problem.
Last time I checked the device manager, write caching is enabled. But it always has been and I never mess with that either.
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