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unfortunately I'm running an AMD 751 Irongate Northbridge and a VIA 686a Southbridge on my ASUS K7M... it's AMD

I'm using a yamaha 8x4x24 CD-RW with a, Afreey 10x dvd

THE PROBLEM HAS BEEN SOLVED!!! Thanks to the amazingly dedicated geeks like myself at Lockergnome, I found out the my primary slave (CDRW) was slowing down the whole ide cable! I just put both my HDDs on the primary cable and the dvd and CDRW on the secondary!! ALL is good now!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE PROBLEM HAS BEEN SOLVED!!! Thanks to the amazingly dedicated geeks like myself at Lockergnome, I found out the my primary slave (CDRW) was slowing down the whole ide cable! I just put both my HDDs on the primary cable and the dvd and CDRW on the secondary!! ALL is good now!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

see the post i just made about this very same prolem under the "maxtor 30gb too slow" post... it may be helpful

HOLY CRAP!!! I'm having the same problem with my 30GB 7200 ATA100 Maxtor drive!! What I've tried so far: 1)make sure hard disk controller setting are set to "DMA if available" 2)Make sure SP2 is installed 3)check cables (I'm using ATA66 cables but my board can only go as high as ATA66) 4)Make sure BIOs is set to recognize EVERYTHING automatically inclunding PIO MODE. 5)used the 66to100.exe utility provided at www.maxtor.com to downgrade the HDD's firmware to default no higher than UDMA mode 4 (ATA66) *NOTE*This worked the first time, but after I installed a second HDD, the Maxtor will no longer leave PIO mode *End Note* 6)Installed the latest BIOS If you have any questions or want advice, feel free to email me being that I dont oft visit this forum