Recent content by dimbo

Thanks, I just checked and SMART is already enabled in the BIOS :(

BlueFireIce, thank you I think you might have solved it :D I just made an big empty 175MB tiff file in photoshop and transfered it from the desktop to the second partition in less than 1 second :cool: Infact it was so fast there was no dialog box to let me see what the speed was! I'll keep...

Hi, I've just installed both of these but neither of them seem to be working :( DiskCheckup says 'there were errors trying to gather the SMART info' and Speedfan doesn't list the drive in the drop-down box :eek:

I posted yesterday on the Motherboard forum because I suspected I might be having a problem with the chipset on my P5NE-SLI but now I'm thinking it might be the HDD that's playing up. I'm experiencing intermittent slow file transfer between two partitions on my SATA II drive. Speeds are...

Thanks guys. I've tried all the other SATA ports but it made no difference. I don't have a have a spare drive I can test with. The link you gave is interesting but it is a different problem to mine.

I'm experiencing very slow file transfer between two partitions on my SATA II drive. Speeds are typically down as low as 500kb/second (YES KB!). Programmes seem to be a bit slow starting and boot times feel a bit longer than usual. During boot-up the bios also feels like it is taking slightly...