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Yeah I figured that... I still think it's a rip off though. If they say 100, it should be 100. Sorry but I think thats BS. Just my opinion.

Oh yaeh... Temps before... CPU Average was 123 F CPU High was 131 F CPU Low was 104 F System Average 79 F System High 86 F System Low 72 F Temps NOW CPU Average is 106 F CPU High is 108 F CPU Low is 97 F System Average is 73 F System High is 75 F System Low is 71 F So what do you think hehe? Although I now have a personal vaccume cleaner in my computer and it freaking sounds like on. SOB is loud! Update: I just took a fan from a power supply I had laying around and hooked it up... That thing is wussy! What is up with these PSU fans being wussy?

Yes... But shouldn't it go faster? Or is that average? I am not complaining of speed. I just dont see ATA100 on the WD option leads me to think it is having a problem. But the more I talk to you guys and compare it seems to me it is running just fine... I am just confused... LOL.

yeah but burst speed is jack crap really... i think the regular random reads suck ***... 6MB a sec!? com on! my freekin NETWORK CARD CAN GO FASTER! no wonder network never seems lagged... I still think something is wrong

drivers? I h8 touchpads.. Try playing q3 with on lol!

I'll be fine I am not an idiot. LOL... I think I will not even get close to a capacitor... SOB has to hold thousands of volts of power. Probably would kill me too. Fun... I will probably make my little brother do it! LOL... J/K

Ok here we go... Quote: I have the exact same hard drive (Western Digital WD400BB-00AUA1) and it runs flawlessly for me at ATA100. First off, here's my system: 900 Mhz Thunderbird MSI K7T Turbo (which uses the VIA 686b southbridge) GeForce 2 MX400 SBLive aforementioned hard drive Creative 12x DVD-ROM generic 56x CD-ROM Creative 6432 CD-RW Windows 2000 Professional Debian GNU/Linux And another data point, previously I had a K7T Pro (686a) and a Promise Ultra100 20267 IDE Controller, which the hard drive also ran flawlessly on. I know that you have checked a lot of things trying to get this to work, but I'd like to throw a checklist at you again, since you haven't solved your problem yet, and hopefully we can find your problem. 1. Make sure you are using an ATA66 80-wire IDE cable. One of the connectors will be blue, and the ribbon itself will have smaller wires in it. ------------------------------------------------------------- I CHECKED THE CABLE... IT IS AN ATA100... 80 WIRE IDE CABLE. THE CONNECTOR TO THE MOTHERBOARD IS BLUE. THE RIBBON HAS SMALLER CABLES. I KNOW ITS A ATA-100 CABLE. ------------------------------------------------------------- 2. When your computer boots, what does it say on the second BIOS screen? The one that has everything listed in a table and gets scrolled off the screen by Windows loading is the one I am referencing. Mine lists my drive like so: Primary Master: LBA,ATA100,UDMA5 ------------------------------------------------------------- I CHECKED ALL OF THAT... IT READS LBA,ATA 100, 40022MB. BUT IT DOES NOT SAY UDMA 5 AND I CAN NOT FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET IT TO SAY THAT! I TRIED A FEW THINGS AND I CANNOT GET IT TO SAY UDMA 5. SO HOW DO I KNOW ITS USING UDMA 5??? ------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Check your BIOS settings. The ones in particular that matter are in Integrated Peripherals and are: Primary Master PIO Primary Master UDMA These should both be set to AUTO. ------------------------------------------------------------- THESE ARE BOTH ON AUTO AS SPECIFIED AS PRI SLAVE AND SEC MASTER AND SEC SLAVE. ------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Make sure you have the latest BIOS for your motherboard. ------------------------------------------------------------- I HAVE THE ONLY BIOS AVAILIABEL FOR MY BIOS. THE BOARD WAS RELEASED IN FEBURARY OF THIS YEAR AND IS DATED FEBRUARY 19, 2001. THERE IS NO NEW COPY FOR IT THAT I COULD FIND. I CHECKED UNICORE.COM OR WHAT EVER FOR BIOS UPDATES AND TALKED TO AN REP ABOUT IT THERE ARE NONE. ------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Check your Windows drivers. You will probably want the latest VIA 4in1 drivers, 4.32. In Win2k, under Device Manager, VIA Bus Master IDE Controller, the version number for viaide.sys is 5.0.2195.5110. Offhand I think that's not the newest version, but there has been 686b ATA100 support for the past 4 or 5 driver revisions, so as long as you are up to date, you will be ok. The procedure under WinME is similar. ------------------------------------------------------------- I CHECKED ALL THAT IT DOES SHOW 5.0.2195.5110 EXACTLY. ------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Make sure you have Service Pack 2 installed, on Win2k. There were issues with ATA100 that were fixed in SP1, IIRC. Plus, there are literally hundreds of things that SP1+2 fix. It's just a good idea in general. ------------------------------------------------------------- I HAVE SP1 INSTALLED, AND REINSTALLED SP2... AND SOME OTHER UPDATES SEE WHAT FILES I HAVE HERE I HAVE ALL OF THEM INSTALLED... UPDATES I HAVE ------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Check your settings in Device Manager. Under Primary IDE Channel->Advanced Settings, it should be set to DMA Mode If Available, and will register as Ultra DMA Mode on Win2k. (I noticed XP actually lists the mode number.. much nicer!) ------------------------------------------------------------- CHECKED THAT AS WELL. IT SAYS ULTRA UDMA MODE AND APPEARS TO BE WORKING FINE. I DO HAVE IT SET TO "DMA MODE IF AVAILABLE" ------------------------------------------------------------- That should just about cover everything related to ATA100. I don't have Sandra installed at the moment, but in HWINFO's benchmarks, I get 74.50 read burst rate and 16.81 random access mode, which are the best scores I have had yet. (They have gotten better as newer VIA IDE drivers have been released) I would also like to point out that ATA100 does not necessarily equal 100 MB/sec. This is a theoretical maximum, and usually get bottlenecked by other parts of your system, especially your PCI bus. Also, I noticed some posters said that you had to run a program from Western Digital to enable ATA100 mode on the hard drive. I never ran such a program and my drive has worked at ATA100 from the first time I plugged it in. I have never even put the WD disk in my floppy drive! I think I will check it out though, just to see what it says. But I didn't have to do a thing to get it to work... Anyway, I hope this post helps you out. I'll be checking this thread, but feel free to mail me at the address in my profile if you have any other questions about the drive. But it'd probably be best to keep the discussion here. James ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- I have looked EVERYTHING! I already checked all of this and it had no effect. The utility provided on the WD boot disk still says ATA33 and ATA33 only available and so does the updated version of the software. I wonder if it is not the motherboard it self or damage in the BIOS, the ROM on the hard drive, or a stream of bad IDE cables I have... Anything else I should check? WD is pretty much saying the same things as you guys and I am telling them the same thing I am telling you. They have stopped responding to me as of Wednesday. I think they are sick of hearing from me lol.

Ok here are the results. I feel dissapointed. :-( I will do a WinME test here in a few... Hard Drive I also put in other sys benches, in case anyone wants to compare or sees a problem. CPU RAM Network Ok... I will post the stuff for jcurbo here in a sec...

Excellent. I will go check everything again and report back. Thank you guys for responding. I do appreciate it. And Uykucu, it's ok. I understand where you are coming from and where the other guy was coming from also. We will get this figured out hopefully. If not, WD will be getting a nice call... Or actually. I think I will take it back to Circuit City where I bought it from and deal with them first to see if I can trade it in for a new one. Who knows... it may be my motherboard. I have still yet to get my friends comp to test it out since he has nearly the exact same sys config as me. We have just been so busy lately working, and out website. Which you should check out some time, I want some hits anyway. Who doesnt right?

I have an Epox EP-8KTA3. Seems no matter what Via 4in1 drivers I install I always get an problem with the Via Tech Standard CPU to PCI bridge. The error message is this in the device manager. -------------------------------------------------------- The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28) To reinstall the drivers for this device, click Reinstall Driver. -------------------------------------------------------- I even install the drivers for it! But it still does it! Anyone know what is wrong and how to fix it? Thanks.

I tried all of that, the only thing that works is not having SP2 on there. SP2 is too damn buggy anyway. It froze my computer several times. Then when I took it off it was back to seamless operation.

Hmmm well I tried the new connection thing... Did not work... Also tried turning off Zone Alarm for a few and putting it back on in like 20 min... That did not work either. Then I uninstalled it and put back on regular Zone Alarm and it worked fine... I think that Zone Pro is just too secure... I guess that could be considered a good sign... But sucks when you cant use it with your network... If anyone knows how to fix this let me know. Cause I would like to use Pro. Since my grandpa bought it for me it would be useless. I feel guilty now. Thanks.

Yeah I have that exact same problem too. I think its just the fact that WinME sucks major ***... And it was not designed for networking in any way at all! We are lucky they even put in network support on that OS. What a waste... I don't know if there is a patch but you might look at Microsoft's database of problems, which IS FREKKIN HUGE! LOL thats MS for you...

I just got another D-Link DSS-5+ Switch. The exact same one I already have. I now have two and am attempting to connect them together so I can have more people on my network. So far it as been unsucessful. I have tried connecting a crossover cable from the uplink on one to the uplink on the other. That did not work. I also tried (even though its against my knowledge) to connect the crossover from the uplink to one to a regular port on the other. I have also tried connecting a straight through cable from the uplink on one to a regular port on the other switch. That did not work, so again I tried against my knowledge to connect the straight through from the uplink on one to the uplink on the other. None of them worked! Am I doing something wrong. I looked in the manual and what I did connecting a crossover from the uplink to the uplink on the other switch should work. Right? Can a network expert help with this please? Thank you in advance for you help.

Yeah I found that out... You can use Port 1 while uplink is in use. But I got it to work... Thanks... I think it was the cable. POS

Does anyone have a AMD K6-2 500 or above that works and is very stable? I need one for my server.

oh sh1t lol it was so simple... I hate it when I do stupid sh1t like that.

I will try it again but I already did that... Hmmm. And there is no switch or anything its a permanent uplink. It's a 5 port switch (thats what the box says) but its actually 6 if you cound the uplink. Which I was pleasantly surprised when I bought it.

How about I open the casing when it is on and dip my hands in a bowl of water and then touch anything that looks dangerous inside the monitor. Well what do you suggest is the best thing to do because this thing makes that smell every once in a while. Although I havent smelled it in a while.

This is what it says... I had to load in in WinME though. :-( It is a bit higher, but I still dont think my drive is running ATA100 though. The WD utility wont give me the option. The only thing there is 33. Here is a pic so that you can see.

I will try that right now and show you what I get.

go to your control panel and open administration tools or what ever its named and then go to services. then organize by startup and you can see what is automatic, what is manual, and what is disabled. And you can change them too. One other thing, sp2 is awfully buggy, I would suggest dropping sp2 until MS releases sp3 cause its too damn buggy.

Yeah but once you work the kinks out of VIAs chipsets everything works great! I would get an Athlon/Duron system hooked up. Just review every motherboard and processor and decide what you want. That's what I did and I am very happy how it turned out.

HMM it must be interfering with your phone line in some way it cant keep a stable connection. Judging from what i have just heard I would go out and buy some cheap D-Link 10/100 cards and some cat5 cable and you should be set just fine. I read up on that phoneline thing from Diamond and it has tons of connection problems. Probably better to just get a normal network, or go wireless.

Yeah I think it can be done but it will be tetious. I cannot guide you through the process but hopefully a network expert can (clutch around still?). I think you can use a switchs uplink port and connect it to their network... It may still not allow that many computers on the network because of IP usage restrictions. You might have to talk to the network admin to see if you can get more computers in there...