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#381

Author: ABC
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 01:10

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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.

Any help  appreciated. You think the MOBO is fried only at the IDE
ports?




ABC
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Re: Figure this one?

#382

Author: Clob
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 01:17

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Reinstall your motherboard drivers. Otherwise, your IDE controller may be 
failing.

"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.
>
> Any help  appreciated. You think the MOBO is fried only at the IDE
> ports?
>
>
>
>
> ABC
> Do not reply by email. Replay to NG

Re: Figure this one?

#383

Author: Kawosa
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 01:45

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ABC <ABC@nospam.net> wrote in 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.
> 
> Any help  appreciated. You think the MOBO is fried only at the IDE
> ports?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ABC
> Do not reply by email. Replay to NG

Check the event viewer for problems. My first concern would be a virus or 
corrupted drivers.

Re: Figure this one?

#384

Author: Vanguard
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?

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