GenerationYscorpio
Senior member
I have recently purchased the maxtor D740x drive the first ever drive that was created by Maxtor and Quantum.
Anyway, here is the major problem I am encountering.
Spec
Asus a7v133 based on kt133a
WinXP pro
512ram
AMD Thunderbird 900mhz
I have done FDISK and advance longer formating that was provided by WinXP cd and when I install the window it went extremely slow and at many occassions the drive just stop spinning not completely stop responding it just idle and do nothing, but eventually like 2hr and half passed it finally done installing, and goes into the first time loading windows. However, it spend forever time loading and most of the time the drive is idle and eventually turns into blank black screen and only seek the drive 2 sec occassionally and brings it to nowhere. One thing is odd that when it is installing windowxp and actually spinning it does things at the respected speed but just that endless time of idleing pisses me off and never able to go into windows.
Here is all the problemshoot I have tried
1. used maxtor powermax diagnostic utility it passed all the test....
2. have formated several times still the same thing
3. Have tried with my other drives it worked flawlessly
4. I have placed the drive in both ata100 mode and ordinary ata66 mode both does the same thing
5. I have even changed the cable and have the utility that was provided by maxtor to check all connection everything is fine
Thanks for your time reading this, the problem is too wired and beyond my ability to do any further action on it.
Any suggestions or comments is welcome.
Anyway, here is the major problem I am encountering.
Spec
Asus a7v133 based on kt133a
WinXP pro
512ram
AMD Thunderbird 900mhz
I have done FDISK and advance longer formating that was provided by WinXP cd and when I install the window it went extremely slow and at many occassions the drive just stop spinning not completely stop responding it just idle and do nothing, but eventually like 2hr and half passed it finally done installing, and goes into the first time loading windows. However, it spend forever time loading and most of the time the drive is idle and eventually turns into blank black screen and only seek the drive 2 sec occassionally and brings it to nowhere. One thing is odd that when it is installing windowxp and actually spinning it does things at the respected speed but just that endless time of idleing pisses me off and never able to go into windows.
Here is all the problemshoot I have tried
1. used maxtor powermax diagnostic utility it passed all the test....
2. have formated several times still the same thing
3. Have tried with my other drives it worked flawlessly
4. I have placed the drive in both ata100 mode and ordinary ata66 mode both does the same thing
5. I have even changed the cable and have the utility that was provided by maxtor to check all connection everything is fine
Thanks for your time reading this, the problem is too wired and beyond my ability to do any further action on it.
Any suggestions or comments is welcome.
