I'm having a problem with my new SATA 250gb hard drive.
I put fresh copy of XP pro SP1 on it and benched it using HDTach looks great then few days later
I was playing a DOOM3 and noticed that it was lagging a bit.
I benched it again and now it's running alot slower like something
is interfering with the hard drive. it's been about 4 days ive had XP
on it. Heres a pic; the blue line looks great! now the red line is all up and down.
-I used process explorer and cant find anything that would cause a problem.
-Removed a few things from msconfig.
-Updated to the latest VIA Arena drivers.
-Checked that write-caching is on in device properties.
-Used speedfan to check SMART status, all good
The "safely remove hardware" icon is in my taskbar and tells me that i can remove my C:\ drive
I think XP thinks that it's a hot swap drive and has disabled write-caching even though device
manager says it's on. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it..
Other than that everything seems to work fine!
Ive posted a screen shot of my HDTach result on my wifes flikr heres the link
http://www.flickr.com/photos/94092182@N00/471001226/
I know you guys are the best !
Is there anything I can do? Is this normal?
Thanks!
ASROCK 4COREDUAL-VSTA
P4 3GHZ 1MBL2
1GB DUAL DDR
ATI x1950 PRO
SATA 250GB WD2500KS 7200/16MB
450w PSU
I put fresh copy of XP pro SP1 on it and benched it using HDTach looks great then few days later
I was playing a DOOM3 and noticed that it was lagging a bit.
I benched it again and now it's running alot slower like something
is interfering with the hard drive. it's been about 4 days ive had XP
on it. Heres a pic; the blue line looks great! now the red line is all up and down.
-I used process explorer and cant find anything that would cause a problem.
-Removed a few things from msconfig.
-Updated to the latest VIA Arena drivers.
-Checked that write-caching is on in device properties.
-Used speedfan to check SMART status, all good
The "safely remove hardware" icon is in my taskbar and tells me that i can remove my C:\ drive
I think XP thinks that it's a hot swap drive and has disabled write-caching even though device
manager says it's on. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it..
Other than that everything seems to work fine!
Ive posted a screen shot of my HDTach result on my wifes flikr heres the link
http://www.flickr.com/photos/94092182@N00/471001226/
I know you guys are the best !
Is there anything I can do? Is this normal?
Thanks!
ASROCK 4COREDUAL-VSTA
P4 3GHZ 1MBL2
1GB DUAL DDR
ATI x1950 PRO
SATA 250GB WD2500KS 7200/16MB
450w PSU