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Could this have been caused by damaged hardware by any chance? The hard disks seem to be fine, and the cables also seem to be fine; so it comes down to the motherboard! I hope this isn't the case... I only had this mobo for a month. 🙁
 
xeon - if your mobo uses an intel chipset, some of their older boards have a problem with usb!!!

i was working on a board with the same prob- everything else worked fine. After many hours, found a patch, didn't work.
Even the intel qx3 microscope [usb] wouldn't work, which made me giggle
 
lol....my external usb gives me 1MB/sec avg!!!!!........any idea why? its an 810mbd....with celeron1.1G
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That sounds right for a USB 1.1 port.

Delitus, I am still confused at how your BIOS can say the drive is UDMA5, but also show it as PIO mode 4 in the options. Since the HD options in the BIOS appear to only give you the PIO mode choices, and show mode 4 as the choice, and HDtach indicates a transfer rate right in line with PIO mode 4, I have to conclude that it's the BIOS that is actually setting the drive to PIO mode 4. I have to conclude that this is either a BIOS or mobo problem.

Or a user problem in that you are unable to figure out how to set the option properly in the BIOS. 😀
 
1. have you got any hardware installed that could be causing a resource conflict - IRQ15, I/O port 170, DMA channel

2. If you go into device manager with a hard disc attached to the secondary ide controller, do you see any indication that Xp has detected a problem?

Otherwise, basic troubleshooting applies - reduce to essential components (motherboard/cpu/ram/video card) try your current boot disc only, first on the primary channel - then swap it onto the secondary channel using the same cable and see if anything changes. If it does, then it would indicate a hardware fault but I'd be suprised if this was the case.

Otherwise, you keep making small changes back to your original config, one step at a time until the problem reoccurs.

Let us know how you get on

hth





 
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