BigDaddy85
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I am not sure where to begin with. Yesterday, I got new AMD 1090T, Asus Crosshair 4 Formula, and few other upgrades for my rig. Along with my new upgrade, I got WD Black Caviar 1 Tb 64 Mb cache Sata 3.0 HD.
I put all my new parts all together with my old HD from previous rig - WD Black Caviar 1 Tb 32 Mb cache Sata 2.0 HD and 500 Gb Samsung 16 Mb cache Sata 2.0. I booted up my computer, and reformatted 2 of my 1 Tb HD then installed OS on new Black Caviar HD. Everything was fine until my OS started to lock up (Clicking the file, and the cursor will turn into waiting ring for long time.) I rebooted again then it did the same thing after few minutes using Win 7 (Clicking start menu then the cursor turned into the same thing from previous one). I decided to reinstall Win 7 on my old Black Caviar HD instead. Thing is running so smooth without any problem for several of minutes.
I started to suspect that my new HD might be defective. I double check on what I did from previous installation. I recall that I installed all necessary driver for it. I decided to move all my file from 500 Gb HD to my new HD. I noticed that transfer rate is much slower than my old Black Caviar HD. I had to cancel it then try transfer again to my old HD this time. It is transferring at an average of 55 Mb/s compared to my new one at 25 Mb/s and dropping as the time goes by. I used cpuz to find out my mobo current verision, and it is the first release "5010". I went to Asus website to check on bios. There are couple of bios, and one of beta bios "7010" and "7070" were suppose to fix hard drive performance issue. Also, the latest offical bios is "8010". It is common knowledge is that any previous fixes should be included with latest bios. I downloaded it then flashed it on my mobo. I noticed one change on the bios under storage settings. It give you a choice to change the speed of sata - Auto, 3.0 Gbps, 6.0 Gbps. I left auto for this settings. I tested the file transfer again from 500 Gb to new 1 Tb. It is still reading at low speed 25 Mb/s, and dropping as the time goes by again. I rebooted and changed sata speed to 6.0 Mbps. Tested the file transfer again. Same thing.
Can anyone help me to figure out what is causing my new HD to act quirky on my new rig? Should I RMA it?
I put all my new parts all together with my old HD from previous rig - WD Black Caviar 1 Tb 32 Mb cache Sata 2.0 HD and 500 Gb Samsung 16 Mb cache Sata 2.0. I booted up my computer, and reformatted 2 of my 1 Tb HD then installed OS on new Black Caviar HD. Everything was fine until my OS started to lock up (Clicking the file, and the cursor will turn into waiting ring for long time.) I rebooted again then it did the same thing after few minutes using Win 7 (Clicking start menu then the cursor turned into the same thing from previous one). I decided to reinstall Win 7 on my old Black Caviar HD instead. Thing is running so smooth without any problem for several of minutes.
I started to suspect that my new HD might be defective. I double check on what I did from previous installation. I recall that I installed all necessary driver for it. I decided to move all my file from 500 Gb HD to my new HD. I noticed that transfer rate is much slower than my old Black Caviar HD. I had to cancel it then try transfer again to my old HD this time. It is transferring at an average of 55 Mb/s compared to my new one at 25 Mb/s and dropping as the time goes by. I used cpuz to find out my mobo current verision, and it is the first release "5010". I went to Asus website to check on bios. There are couple of bios, and one of beta bios "7010" and "7070" were suppose to fix hard drive performance issue. Also, the latest offical bios is "8010". It is common knowledge is that any previous fixes should be included with latest bios. I downloaded it then flashed it on my mobo. I noticed one change on the bios under storage settings. It give you a choice to change the speed of sata - Auto, 3.0 Gbps, 6.0 Gbps. I left auto for this settings. I tested the file transfer again from 500 Gb to new 1 Tb. It is still reading at low speed 25 Mb/s, and dropping as the time goes by again. I rebooted and changed sata speed to 6.0 Mbps. Tested the file transfer again. Same thing.
Can anyone help me to figure out what is causing my new HD to act quirky on my new rig? Should I RMA it?
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