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Article #384Re: Figure this one?
From: Vanguard
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:14
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:14
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"ABC" <ABC@nospam.net> wrote in message news:r1r131l6nfledgn7d5u0n0cma99nh5ldja@4ax.com... > 2themax (Epox in the US) 8KTA3 with 512m SDRAM, AMD TB at 933mhz. > > Suddenly one day the boot up of XP took about 2 minutes ( before was > 20 secs) and there was a general slow down of everything--even the > mouse. Everthing still WORKS--- at the pace of a snail. > > HD Tune shows my HD speed is only 2mb/s ! Normal is about 30mb/s. Same > result with other hard disks. > > tried to reset cmos, pulled out all add on cards, changed video > card--- but no improvement. Did you check the IDE controller device's properties in Device Manager to make sure you didn't revert to the older and slower PIO transfer mode and are no longer using the faster DMA mode? I don't know HD Tune. Does this run from a DOS bootable floppy? Or are you running it under Windows XP? -- ____________________________________________________________ Post your replies to the newsgroup. Share with others. E-mail reply: Remove "NIXTHIS" and add "#VS811" to Subject. ____________________________________________________________
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