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HDD running in PIO (problem already solved)

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Benny Blanco

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I solved the problem already, but wanted to see if anyone has ever run into this:

Specs: HP Pavilion 743c
Windows XP Home
P4 2.4ghz - 533fsb
845 chipset, 82801 (ICH4) ATA controller.
1 * 512mb PC2100
Integrated Intel Extreme Graphics
CD-RW (in DMA)
DVD (in DMA)
Seagate 80gb (in PIO)

A friend as me to look at her moms computer, which is a year old.... because it is slow as hell. I went to look at it yesterday. From pushing the power button, it took about 30 seconds to get to the GUI, but then it took a whole 5 MINUTES to finish booting completely.

My first guess: DMA mode was 1 or 2, instead of 4 or 5. Maybe they put a 40wire cable in there or something. Nope. To my surprise, it wasn't even in DMA. It was in PIO. How could this happen? I do not understand.

Now I thought it was going to take 10 minutes to fix. But no. It took over 2 hours. The inf drivers I downloaded from intel.com don't include the drivers for this (I guess I thought they would be like via's 4-1). NOPE.

SO I found the ultra ATA drivers on intel.com (a surprisingly difficult task). I extracted/installed them, but for some stupid reason, they didn't put any INF files where they said they would (C:/program files/intel/infinst). So for an hour I racked my brain trying to figure out what the problem was.

I am not very familiar with windows XP (i use windows 2000). On every restart, it kept telling me "Found new hardware... cdrw, dvd, seagate, IDE channel, IDE channel... and prompting me for the software to install these things. WTF!!! I was getting so pissed. Every time I went thru this, it took 10-15 minutes each time for the machine to detect the new hardware and go thru all that crap.

Nowhere in the downloads from intel.com where there ANY inf files, even though the readme said they did.

I finally decided to try directing it to c:/windows/inf to look for any inf files. It finally found and installed the IDE channels and drives. And the seagate 80gb was finally running at full speed in DMA mode 5.

Anyone know whats up with that? I think that is such BS that hewlett packard could sell a system with the hard drive in PIO. That's like buying a corvette and having only 4 of 8 cylinders working.

Benny
 
yea, I wonder the same sort of things in those big branded systems. I have a compaq 8000t series, and the WD special edition HDD took a crap on me for unknown reasons (could have been overheating or something, but I doubt it) lost all my data on that thing.

QC is just not up to par on these machines. So glad I finally got to build my own. This way if something f's up, I always know when it started, I always know exactly when it began (since I'm the only user) and tech support is right here, because there is no propriotary BS in it :)
 
True... not exactly a corvette TODAY, but if you think about it, being purchased approximately 18 months ago, a P4 2.4B/533 was probably damn close to top of the product line, if not THE top.

In comparison, the P4C's & 865/875 chipsets are about 10 months old I believe, and certainly were not out at the time this hp was bought.

I'll give them credit, the case and monitor (LCD) were nice looking. Too bad the system was so FULL of extra worthless crap.
 
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