WD HDD Troubles.

[Dallows]

I just ran PCMark2002 and my cpu scored like 4400 and my memory scored like 3100 but my HDD which by my sig is a Western Digital 40gb 7200rpm 8mb cache only got like 110. What gives?

[amd_man2005]

Are you using an 80conductor cable?

[Dallows]

Yeah, it came with the mobo I bought when I was building my pc. It should be at least, I could check it again, but I remember running the same test when I first built the system remember the score being much higher. I will run the test on my other computer, as the hdd is the same, if not very similar.

[amd_man2005]

Try to Defrag

[Dallows]

I reformatted the whole drive not a week ago. I think there's just something wrong, but I don't know how to find out what. I even did the diagnostic test available from the WD site, and it found no errors.

[amd_man2005]

Make sure your IDE cable is plugged in good.

Also, check to be sure your drive is running in UDMA5 By going to Control>Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager, Then IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, Right click Primary IDE channel, properties, Advanced.

[Dallows]

Just checked it, Device 0, which should be the hdd is "DMA if available," and set at PlO, which isn't right I assume. I remember when I was using the WD Diagnostic tool there was a way I could turn the Ultra DMA on/off. I think maybe in trying to make sure if was in Ultra DMA I might've turned it off.

[amd_man2005]

set it to DMA if availabe.....being in PIO mode is killing you

[Dallows]

According to the diagnostic I just ran, again, it's running in Ultra DMA 100, but the OS isn't recognizing it as that. It is set for "DMA if available though" so I don't know why it's reading it that way.

[amd_man2005]

Try removing the Primary IDe controller from Device manager and rebooting,

[Dallows]

All right, that did it guys, thanks a lot. :thumb:

[amd_man2005]

Glad that worked for ya m8! :thumb:

[midnexus]

I could not have searched for a more perfect thread.

Mirrored all my problems, and prescribed the same fix that cured them.

Right on!

This happened to my WD after I dropped a slave from the config. I wonder if it was the same impetus in this case?

[zeradul]

You should stick around, most of our threads are like this !