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From: AdenOne on 23 Jan 2008 18:38
On Jan 23, 11:52 pm, "GT" <ContactGT_remo...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> "AdenOne" <pacific-...(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:23c77bc3-03e7-4319-be22-262f1bb4bda7(a)t1g2000pra.googlegroups.com...
>
> >> The drive might well say that, but double click on the primary (or
> >> secondary) controller and check the information on one of the tabs
> >> there -
> >> it lists the master and slave devices in a table and the mode is listed
> >> for
> >> each.
>
> > Sorry, thats what I meant, the tab for each drive does not list
> > speeds, its the Primary IDE controller tab I looked at. There is only
> > 1 controller on this board and so it has both drives on it as master-
> > slave with the HDD being master.
>
> You might get a slight speed improvement if you split the drives over the
> two channels, but we're not talking much difference - maybe a few percent.
> This is something to address once you have sorted out the real problem!

There is no second channel - the board is a budget Asus P5SMX-SE with
2 or 3 SATA ports but only one IDE port. So unless I get a SATA HDD, I
have to have them both on the same channel.
From: ~misfit~ on 23 Jan 2008 19:44
Somewhere on teh intarweb "AdenOne" typed:
> I recently revamped at computer for a friend by replacing all but the
> hard drive and DVD-RW drive. It was a basic system as she does not use
> much more than the internet and Word, so I chose a Celeron 420 1.6GHz
> with 512MB DDR2-667 RAM and XP-Pro. Everything seemed fine until after
> a week or so of using it, she told me it was very slow and laggy.
>
> So I had a look, and the CPU was at barely 15% use during idle at the

I have a Celeron 420 and XP Pro. During idle it uses between 0 and 2% of
CPU. A Celeron 420 is more powerful than the old Athlon XP3200+, it
shouldn't be using 15% of CPU idling.

It sounds to me like she's got picked up an infection or two.
--
Shaun.


From: ~misfit~ on 23 Jan 2008 19:47
Somewhere on teh intarweb "AdenOne" typed:
> On Jan 23, 11:52 pm, "GT" <ContactGT_remo...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>> "AdenOne" <pacific-...(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:23c77bc3-03e7-4319-be22-262f1bb4bda7(a)t1g2000pra.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>>> The drive might well say that, but double click on the primary (or
>>>> secondary) controller and check the information on one of the tabs
>>>> there -
>>>> it lists the master and slave devices in a table and the mode is
>>>> listed for
>>>> each.
>>
>>> Sorry, thats what I meant, the tab for each drive does not list
>>> speeds, its the Primary IDE controller tab I looked at. There is
>>> only 1 controller on this board and so it has both drives on it as
>>> master- slave with the HDD being master.
>>
>> You might get a slight speed improvement if you split the drives
>> over the two channels, but we're not talking much difference - maybe
>> a few percent. This is something to address once you have sorted out
>> the real problem!
>
> There is no second channel - the board is a budget Asus P5SMX-SE with
> 2 or 3 SATA ports but only one IDE port. So unless I get a SATA HDD, I
> have to have them both on the same channel.

You'll have to excuse GT, he doesn't read well, you mentioned in your
original post that there was only one P-ATA controller.

As I said, the system shouldn't be using 15% CPU at idle. Something hinkey
is going on and I don't think it's confined to the HDD.
--
Shaun.


From: AdenOne on 24 Jan 2008 01:15
> Did you try the things I'm mentioned in my last post?
> Did you check the link Paul posted?

I haven't had a chance yet, the PC was a favor to her and work has
kept me busy. I have HDD Tach downloaded on my flash drive so next
time I am there I will check it over again. It could very well be
defaulting to PIO but not showing this in the device manager. I will
look when I am there next, and take a spare IDE drive just to test the
controller to make sure its not an issue on the board.
From: GT on 24 Jan 2008 09:03

"~misfit~" <misfit61nz(a)yahoot.com.au> wrote in message
news:4797e01a$1(a)news2.actrix.gen.nz...
> Somewhere on teh intarweb "AdenOne" typed:
>> On Jan 23, 11:52 pm, "GT" <ContactGT_remo...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> "AdenOne" <pacific-...(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>
>>> news:23c77bc3-03e7-4319-be22-262f1bb4bda7(a)t1g2000pra.googlegroups.com...
>>>
>>>>> The drive might well say that, but double click on the primary (or
>>>>> secondary) controller and check the information on one of the tabs
>>>>> there -
>>>>> it lists the master and slave devices in a table and the mode is
>>>>> listed for
>>>>> each.
>>>
>>>> Sorry, thats what I meant, the tab for each drive does not list
>>>> speeds, its the Primary IDE controller tab I looked at. There is
>>>> only 1 controller on this board and so it has both drives on it as
>>>> master- slave with the HDD being master.
>>>
>>> You might get a slight speed improvement if you split the drives
>>> over the two channels, but we're not talking much difference - maybe
>>> a few percent. This is something to address once you have sorted out
>>> the real problem!
>>
>> There is no second channel - the board is a budget Asus P5SMX-SE with
>> 2 or 3 SATA ports but only one IDE port. So unless I get a SATA HDD, I
>> have to have them both on the same channel.
>
> You'll have to excuse GT, he doesn't read well, you mentioned in your
> original post that there was only one P-ATA controller.
>
> As I said, the system shouldn't be using 15% CPU at idle. Something hinkey
> is going on and I don't think it's confined to the HDD.

I can read just fine, but forget pretty much everything older than 5
minutes! And, what the hell is a 'hinkey'?


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