Skippy mouse when booting off WD 160gb ** fixed

[Kelvrick]

Hey.

I recently bought a WD Special edition 160bg 8mb cache. Windows doesn't natively support drives that large, so the drive comes with an ata100 controller pci card. Right now, I'm booting off a Windows XP installation of a 35gb partition. Everything is fine except that whenever the CPU is working hard, or the drive is accessing, my mouse starts getting skippy.

You can see my specs below combined with a Microsoft Intellimouse 3.0 plugged directly into the computer, and a Microsoft Natural Pro keyboard plugged into the computer. Both plugged in with their usb plugs.

This didn't happen when I was bootting off of my Seagate 80gb drive, so I'm thinking that its because the pci controller isn't as fast an integrated ide controllers. Does anyone have any other ideas?

<== troubleshooting monkey dance

EDIT: Instead of using the ata 100 card that came with the drive, Adul told me that VIA chipsets 333 and higher supported larger drives and so I just moved the drive over to my integrated IDE controller. Everything works fine now.

 

[OSUBeaver]

I had the same porblem with my WD80SE, the way I fixed it was using the other connector on the ide cable, I have the drive set as master, but even then on one of the connectors it was behaving like that. Give it a try, I thought my HD was bad but after I switched the from the first to teh second (end) connector on the cable everything was jon blazing again. Hope this helps

Alex

 

[Spac3d]

Since you figured it out, why not post the solution in case someone else has the problem.

Spac3d

 

[Gondo]

My system was doing that too for awhile. Everytime I saved a file or whatever, my mouse pointer
really lost interest in following the mouse around, it drove me nuts.

Now that you mention it....

Later I noticed that my HD was plugged into the middle connector on the IDE cable, I put it back
on the end one, and my problem went away, and until I read this message, I didn't know the
reason why.

Guess I learned IDE basics the hard way. I have not dealt with cable select, as that takes a special
cable. But IDE drives need to be hooked up the right way, ie.. The Master should be on the end
connector, and the Slave in the middle, if you don't connect them that way, weird things can happen.

 

[SXMP]

I know you have this fixed, but another common reason this might occur is due to having the drives running in PIO mode, rather than DMA.

When I first installed my Kenwood 72x cd-rom and ripped a cd, my mouse started skipping and basically the system slowed drastically. When I realized that Win2k hadn't automatically set the IDE Channel and Device to UDMA, I corrected it, restarted it, and then retried with obviously better results.

just a little info in case anyone is searching for this problem later, and this is their problem.

 

[Kelvrick]

Solution fixed.

<== monkey dance