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slow Hard drive speed
Name: Kiel Date: February 9, 2002 at 19:03:01 Pacific
Comment:
I am having problems with my hard drive speed. It is only about 6 months old but its reading at about 2,300 kb/sec . . . which im fessing is bad. (I tried to write a CD with my 12x burner and it had to slow down to 4x becase it read too slow). Can anyone help me? I have an ASUSTeK Inc. A7V133 motherboard and im pretty sure the HD is a 40 gig at 5600 . . . I think. . . anyway, I know it has gone faster becasue I have burned with the samehardware before and had no problems but now i get this. Any help is much appreciated and thanks in advance. :)
Name: Alex Date: February 9, 2002 at 20:01:49 Pacific
Reply:
Did you check your HD setting from the BIOS. Email me back if you don't know how to do it
Thanks
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Response Number 2
Name: dale Date: February 9, 2002 at 20:25:21 Pacific
Reply:
Right click My Computer select Properties/Performance and look to see if any problems are indicated.
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Response Number 3
Name: IB Date: February 10, 2002 at 02:59:57 Pacific
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Setting the CD to DMA can help
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Response Number 4
Name: chappie Date: February 10, 2002 at 05:15:20 Pacific
Reply:
in device manager, set all hdd's and cd-roms to use dma
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Response Number 5
Name: Kiel Date: February 10, 2002 at 08:17:11 Pacific
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To chappie (and others for your help) THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!! chappie, that was the problem. I set it up in device manager to use dma and its blazing fast now. Thank you tons. :-)
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