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installed ide hardrive on system with sata hard drive now getting mutli second freeze

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Arsinek

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Ive been running a single 80gb sata hard drive for some time but needed more space so I dug an old 80gb ide drive out of the closet and put that in, now my pc gets freezes that last a few seconds. The ide gets recognized by windows and I can use it but now I have these freezes.

Any idea what could be wrong?

The mobo is a GIGABYTE GA-EX38-DS4.
 
Run a SMART scan and a surface scan on the IDE drive. Also, is it jumpered correctly? Are you using an 80-wire cable? (ATA-66 or above?)
 
VirtualLarry said:
Run a SMART scan and a surface scan on the IDE drive. Also, is it jumpered correctly? Are you using an 80-wire cable? (ATA-66 or above?)
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Not familiar with SMART scan or surface scan. Ill look into, assuming I can look it up on teh interwebz.

Number of wires in cable I dont know. I believe its an ultra ata though? The kind you can use cable select for master and slave.
 
VirtualLarry said:
Run a SMART scan and a surface scan on the IDE drive. Also, is it jumpered correctly? Are you using an 80-wire cable? (ATA-66 or above?)
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As far as jumpers. I actually removed the jumpers off both. On my sata drive the diagram on the drive said the jumper effected data transfer speed? Does that sound right? The way the jumper was on there it set it at like 1.5gb and taking it off put it at 3gb. So I assumed take it off, 3gb is better then 1.5g.

And the IDE was on cable select. Taking the jumper off I think put it in slave. So i took the jumper off and plugged the drive into the slave connection on the cable aswell.
 
Arsinek said:
And the IDE was on cable select. Taking the jumper off I think put it in slave. So i took the jumper off and plugged the drive into the slave connection on the cable aswell.
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Unless you have another device set as Master, then you probably don't want it set as Slave. Put the jumper back on, and set it to Cable Select. Then plug it into the end connector of the IDE cable.
 
SATA drives do not do Master/Slave. They do a number. PATA drives, if alone, should be set at MASTER. Then you control the boot sequence in BIOS. DMA mode should be OK.
 
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