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by mgb022660 1 view

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I asked this question a while back but din't get a good answer so I'm asking it again. I recently went to PcPitStop.com and ran a test for my hard drive and it came back that the Cached Speed is running at about 53% slower than other related systemsand I don't know why. I have DMA checked and I regularly defrag my system. It was noted that Cached speed has to do with memory and processor but my memory was running at 97% so it's not that ( I don't think ). Any ideas?? This system works pretty slow. It is a AMD 800 with over 400mb of ram. The hard drive is 27 Gigs broken up into 6 volumes running ata 66. Thank you for your help!!

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by csmith

Sounds like the hard drive and the CD-ROM are plugged into the same IDE cable.
The hard drive should be plugged into the end connector on the primary IDE cable. The CD-ROM should be plugged into the secondary IDE cable. (The end connector also.)
Iassume that UDMA66/100 cables are installed. (it has finer ridges than the normal IDE cable.)
Regards, Chris

by csmith

Since you have checked the IDE cable, made sure that you have an UDMA66/100 cable, and swapped the cable to make sure it is not the cable, the next thing to check is the BIOS settings. Most of these Athlon motherboards have auto speed detection for the Hard Drive.
(It would have been a lot easier to assist if the model of the motherboard had been mentioned.)
Unfortunately, with BIOS auto detection you can not force the HD controller into UDMA100 to see if it starts screwing up due to excessive electrical noise.
The settings are usually under Intergrated Peripherals. You should have already done this, but you did not mention it in your question.
To shorten this: What have you checked besides running the test program?
You did run the test program with the test program alone in memory? (Nothing else loaded.)
Regards, Chris

by estebandelatorre

The problem is the IDE cable. It should be an ATA66 or ATA100 cable (the one with the wires more compressed.
Also leave the disk alone in the ide channel. If you have a cd rom, install it as onto the secondary ide channel as master.
The speed allways default to the lowest device found in a chain.

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