PC Problem

S1ght said:
He has one of those EIDE slots? I read its meant to be like IDE2 or something? Should there be any problems if I plugged a normal HDD into there?
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huh?

sounds like a SATA drive

in that case he might be talking about RAID ports? newer mobo's (last 18months only come with 1 ide port)

doubt that raid ports in JBOD mode would do anything wrong in terms of performance...

again - i say check the transfer mode of the bord....i suspect PIO - needs to be udma5
 
That EIDE isnt sata but I got him to check transfer mode and Current Transfer Mode is PIO but transfer mode is set on DMA if available. Any way to force it to go onto udma5? Or ideas why it is set on PIO? Would changing IDE cable or trying a different IDE slot help?
 
Open RegEdit

Find the following KEY:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\000x

The last four digits will be 0000, 0001, 0002, 0003, and so on.

Under each key, delete all occurences of the following values: MasterIdDataChecksum
SlaveIdDataChecksum

Reboot the computer. Windows will now redetect DMA settings.

obviously just make a backup of the registry before u begin - have done this procedure about 6 times in my life - works 100% each time to get PIO back to UDMA+
 
Hi again :D

Turns out another one of my friends has the exact same problem with his SATA Hard drive, picks it up in that PIO Mode so I did the same thing we did with my other friends pc but it stayed in PIO mode, I tried the HDD in my PC and its fine, I tried my HDD in his PC and it put that to PIO Mode aswell, am trying to reinstall windows at the moment and its going mighty slow... maybe bios update?

*Edit
Good ol' Bios update Fixed it :D
 
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