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Sameermiruk
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June 15th, 2005 17:00
Scratchy Audio/Video
I installed a new hard drive the other day and all was well, music and video played fine, however overnight i let my computer transfer about 30GB's of data from my old drive to my new one. After this the audio and video has been scratchy.
I've noticed that for a while after i start up the pc, the audio plays fine, but if i start up a game like 'the sims' the audio and video screws up again.
All devices are working properly in 'Device Manager', is this a problem with power? I have a Demension 8300, 1Gb ram, 3Ghz.
Any ideas?
Sam
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Posted June 15th, 2005 18:00
Could be because your CPU is busy doing something. Bring up Task Manager by right-clicking on the bottom taskbar. Click on the Performance tab and look at the CPU Usage History. Normally it should be less than 5%. If it's around 30 - 40%, then it could affect your gaming application or other programs you want to run. I had this same problem after I installed a new SATA hard drive in my 8400. After starting Windows, it would take a while for the CPU to "settle" down. I turned off drive indexing, but that didn't resolve it. My work around until I try changing the hard drive settings in the motherboard bios is to start an application, then immediately exit out. The CPU would immediately calm down to 1-2% CPU usage. I am going to try that motherboard setting tonight and see what happens.214
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Posted June 15th, 2005 21:00
Tech Support! :smileyvery-happy: Yeah that would be a good idea, I'll look for that.
My CPU usage hasn't changed and I'm clueless on how to change drive settings. Something tells me this is a problem with the voltage to my pc, I'm in the UK and I think my pc's voltage was lower than some people on these forums recommend (240?). The problem only seems to occur after the pc has been on for a while, but I could be wrong.
Is it possible I displaced a cable within the computer when I fitted the hard drive?
Sam
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Posted June 18th, 2005 00:00
I just removed my second hard drive to see if the problem goes away, and sure enough it does.Any ideas how to fix the problem?Anyone???214
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Posted June 20th, 2005 15:00
I am not sure what I did but the CPU utilization problem is gone. This may sound strange, but I think this issue is similar to "breaking in" your new car. After your initial "break in" period, the drive just runs as it should. Some things I did that "might" have fixed the problem:1. Hit F2 to get to Bios Settings during bootup. Hit the down arrow several times to get to the hard drive settings. Change the Hard Drive setting to Perfomance.2. Set Min and Max virtual memory size to same number of 200 MB on the C drive. I left the Min and Max to the same size of 500 MB on the F drive, which is the first partition of the 2nd hard drive I reserved for the Swap file.214
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Posted June 20th, 2005 16:00
May have found the problem.
When I installed the hard drive I did it with the CD in windows, I personally did not change anything in BIOS.
I just checked my BIOS settings now and next to my 'Primary Master Drive' it has 'HARD DRIVE' & when you enter it it gives you it's storage capacity.
Next to my 'Primary Slave Drive' it has 'OFF', when I enter the options menu it allows me to change this to 'AUTO', Is this why I'm having problems?
Presyden214
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Posted June 20th, 2005 16:00
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Posted June 20th, 2005 16:00
Yes, that's it. When the BIOS does not correctly recognize the drive or it's turned off, Windows will not run the device in the faster "DMA" transfer mode but will operate in "PIO" mode. Turning the device on allows Device Manager to run the drive at the faster speed.
Thanks for posting back, glad that worked out.
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Posted July 3rd, 2005 20:00
WOOHOO! I've been trying to fix the same problem for 2 weeks. I never thought it was cause my second hard-drive was disabled. THANX!56
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Posted July 3rd, 2005 20:00
:smileyvery-happy:
Were you as stressed as I was? All that money I thought gone to waste.
What were your symtoms?
Sam
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Posted June 15th, 2005 17:00
What has technical support got to say about this ?