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lokern
12-09-2001, 06:15 PM
Hi! Could my old ATA-66 harddrive cause my computer to use 100% CPU when i write to it?! My mainboard supports ATA-100 and four of my other disks are ATA-100. I do not remeber having this proplem before. When I had my os on a ATA-100 disk everything worked fine. Now I got my os on this ATA-66 disk and it goes slow! When I open a program (which read and write to the disk) my mouse hang, CPU at 100%, sound gets jarring and the computer gets generally slow.

In advance, Thanks.

- Anders
NDD
12-09-2001, 07:30 PM
Check you have DMA enabled for this one.
Check you got no other monitoring utility running on the background (such an antivirus monitor).

Best Regards ...
arthur888
12-11-2001, 10:35 AM
Do you have all the (busmaster)drivers installed? If not this could be the cause of your problem. Without busmastering the PCI bus gets hogged with every read/write operation of your HD and other processes are slowed down as well. Good luck

Arthur
lokern
12-11-2001, 04:28 PM
Hmm... I really don't know what to say. All the drivers are installed. There is an clean OS install (WinXP). DMA is enabled.
And the problem still exists! Could this be because of my 3D card? I know this is the wrong place to ask but could my 3D card make my system slow?

- Anders
rangeral
12-11-2001, 07:02 PM
If your using XP why bother putting it on a older drive, you've created a problem for yourself this way you should go back to the drive that worked well.
arthur888
12-13-2001, 11:39 AM
What kind of solution is this? Someone asks for a solution to a problem and you just say it's his own fault and that he created the problem so he just has to tackle the symptoms by going back to the old configuration. The drive with problems is an UDMA66 one so it can't be that old. I think the age of the drive has no influence here.
rangeral
12-15-2001, 01:57 AM
Considering the problems he mentions whether its old or new I'd rather go with a drive that works fine since nothing else is working.

You could go to the hd manuf.'s site and d/l a diagnostic utility see what it reports but it doesn't sound like a healthy drive especially considering its XP a finicky OS as it is.