New Machine Problem(s)

Arclight · 10-15-09, 08:04 AM

Good, was just going to say that.

Though normally you need to reinstall OS after switching the control mode for the HD controller... at least on XP.

onelifecrisis · 10-15-09, 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Arclight

Good, was just going to say that.

Though normally you need to reinstall OS after switching the control mode for the HD controller... at least on XP.

Yeah, I was mistaken, I had actually changed the eSATAII (and IDE) operation mode from IDE to AHCI, which only altered my DVD-ROM/CR-RW drive (which is an old IDE drive, but seems to work now on ACHI mode, apparently).

When I realised my mistake and tried to set the SATAII mode to ACHI I got a BSOD.

However, when I changed the eSATAII/IDE mode I also changed the SATAII IDE mode from "compatible" to "enhanced" (whatever that means) which didn't require any software changes and did seem to boost my HDD speed. I ran tool called Tune HD (or something like that) and it said that my average read speed was 120Mb/s which I googled and it seems to be a pretty good speed. At any rate the main thing is that the disc is no longer chugging like it was when I first installed Vista+drivers.

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