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Hard drive seems a little slower in new E6600 system

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Soul Colossus

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Just got my E6600 + Asus P5B vanilla + 2gb Corsair DDR2-800, but ever since I installed Windows, the HDD access has seemed a bit slow.

It's as though the drive has to go through a lot of work to get data whereas it took less time when the same drive was in my 3.0 Northwood. It might just be me, but one thing I noticed is the grey loading bar at the bottom of the screen right before the XP boot screen (the same bar you always see with Win2k). I've never noticed this except on slow computers--on my Northwood it zipped passed this and flew through the loading screen, as well. The whole time the HDD is just thrashing, and this is on a fresh Windows partition.

I don't think there's anything wrong with my BIOS settings, everything that has to do with SATA is defaulted and the drive is in SATA1, the first port. Anyone with the same board have any comments?
 
I've seen people with the P5B complaining about slow IDE throughput, and IIRC, slower hard drive speed (or maybe it was access). I don't know enough to tell you anything else, though. Are you using the newest BIOS?
 
By IDE, you mean SATA? My HDD is SATA and my DVD drive is IDE (which I haven't noticed anything wrong with). I just updated to the latest BIOS a few minutes ago, I'll post if I see a difference.

If it's not just me and there really is an issue, I'll see about getting a controller card.
 
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