Just Added two new Hard drives....facing slow downs.

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imported_Zeke

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Running an old athlon 2100 xp on an asus a7n8x. I have a gig of patriot ram in dual channel. Graphics is a 9800 pro. I recently decided to add two new drives, and the machine seems to slow down to a stand still when attempting to transfer any files between hard drives. Using a rather cheap raptor psu....http://www.soyo.com.tw/products/proddesc.php?id=270 which I am afraid may be causing my slowdowns. I admit I purchased it soley for the novelty factor. I am now running an 80 gig maxtor, a 200 gig seagate, and two 300 gig maxtors. Am I on the right track here? will getting a nice power suplly fix my problem? (I apologize if my typing is unreadable, I am too lazy to go back and edit it right now)
 
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raell

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It could be the PSU. If the PC is fine without the 2 new HDDs then it either the PSU running out of juice or possibly 1 or both HDDs are faulty. Try running the drive manufacturer's diagnostic utility and or windows check-disk. Try running the PC with just one new HDD at a time, to see if it is problem with either of the new drives. Also make sure the cables are good. You could also stick the new HDDs in another computer to see if the problem occurs in another machine as well.
If the drives check out then I would say it likely would be the PSU.

 
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imported_Zeke

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The cpu usage seems to be hovering up at 98 for explorer.exe.....I end up having to kill the process and bring it back up...at which point it works fine until I start transfering again
 
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Bobthelost

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PIO, sounds like instead of using UDMA transfer methods it's running the transfer through the CPU.

Go to device manager and go down to IDE channels, make sure you don't see PIO.
 
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Bobthelost

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Ok, go to device manager, then to "IDE ATA/ATPI controllers"

Now select "Primary IDE Channel"

Right click and select properties.

Go to "Advanced settings"

The transfer mode should say "DMA if availible"
The current transfer mode should say "UDMA mode x"

If it says PIO then there's your problem.

Check the secondary channel as well.
 
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imported_Zeke

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instead of primary ide I have "nvidia nfoce 2 ata contoller" when i go into the proporties for that and then the primary channel tab...there is nothign for advanced. However as i stated above it is set for udma5
 
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mariush

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Make sure your drives are set properly, one master and one slave. Some fall back to pio mode if they're not set ok.
 
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