Up until about a week ago, my computer has been running fairly smooth, I'ven't had any major problems with it, however about a week ago, I got my hands a free... Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) ST3320620A 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148139
Long story short as to why I got that free, my cousin ordered a 750GB hard drive and he got the above mentioned hard drive for like $10 with some combo deal, and well he has this old P2 machine, and well that 320GB sata drive wasn't compatible with that old machine, so he said if I give him my WD 60gig HD I can have the 320gig drive for free
Anyways back to my problem, at first when installed the hard drive my computer was giving me troubles, but eventually, things got up and running, well then once I knew everything was cool, I decided to mount my hard drive into my computer, well as I was doing so I realized that the HD had a jumper installed which would limit the performance of the drive to a 150MB/s transfer, so I figured I'd take that jumper out because I wanted to get the full 300MB/s transfer, well after doing so my computer has been nothing but trouble, I've been having a hard time keeping the hard drive installed and yet keep my computer stable at the same time.
Recently, I looked at my mobo manual, and realized that I had two types of SATA ports on my mobo, I mean knew I had them but I realized the difference, I had installed this new HD into a SATA1 port which can only achieve a max of 150MB/s transfer, yet I had the jumper taking out of the hard drive, so the hard drive was set to do 300MB/s when the SATA1 port would only let it do 150MB/s transfer, I figured this had to be the problem, I decided to connect this hard drive into a SATA2 port which can achieve the 300MB/s transfer, well when I did so I could not get the machine to recognize the hard drive.
Yes I know I could just put the jumper back in the hd and use the 150MB/s transfer and all should be fine, but unfortunately I misplaced the jumper, (haha, not very smart of me), but that shouldn't matter, I should be to have my hard drive installed so that I can utilize the 300MB/s transfer.
Also I know you will want to know this, I am using the following mobo
GA-K8N Ultra-9
I must say I got this mobo in august of '05, and I really haven't updated the bios since I've gotten the mobo.
Also a minor issue at this time, on one of my most recent restarts, I lost the usage of my one ethernet port. The mobo has dual gigabit lan, and well the one port just disappeared, and I'm trying to make it come back
Anyways, maybe somebody can help me out with my hard drive issue, maybe the answer is a simple one. I apologize for the speech, haha, but I thank you in advance for your help. If ya need any more info let me know
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148139
Long story short as to why I got that free, my cousin ordered a 750GB hard drive and he got the above mentioned hard drive for like $10 with some combo deal, and well he has this old P2 machine, and well that 320GB sata drive wasn't compatible with that old machine, so he said if I give him my WD 60gig HD I can have the 320gig drive for free
Anyways back to my problem, at first when installed the hard drive my computer was giving me troubles, but eventually, things got up and running, well then once I knew everything was cool, I decided to mount my hard drive into my computer, well as I was doing so I realized that the HD had a jumper installed which would limit the performance of the drive to a 150MB/s transfer, so I figured I'd take that jumper out because I wanted to get the full 300MB/s transfer, well after doing so my computer has been nothing but trouble, I've been having a hard time keeping the hard drive installed and yet keep my computer stable at the same time.
Recently, I looked at my mobo manual, and realized that I had two types of SATA ports on my mobo, I mean knew I had them but I realized the difference, I had installed this new HD into a SATA1 port which can only achieve a max of 150MB/s transfer, yet I had the jumper taking out of the hard drive, so the hard drive was set to do 300MB/s when the SATA1 port would only let it do 150MB/s transfer, I figured this had to be the problem, I decided to connect this hard drive into a SATA2 port which can achieve the 300MB/s transfer, well when I did so I could not get the machine to recognize the hard drive.
Yes I know I could just put the jumper back in the hd and use the 150MB/s transfer and all should be fine, but unfortunately I misplaced the jumper, (haha, not very smart of me), but that shouldn't matter, I should be to have my hard drive installed so that I can utilize the 300MB/s transfer.
Also I know you will want to know this, I am using the following mobo
GA-K8N Ultra-9
I must say I got this mobo in august of '05, and I really haven't updated the bios since I've gotten the mobo.
Also a minor issue at this time, on one of my most recent restarts, I lost the usage of my one ethernet port. The mobo has dual gigabit lan, and well the one port just disappeared, and I'm trying to make it come back
Anyways, maybe somebody can help me out with my hard drive issue, maybe the answer is a simple one. I apologize for the speech, haha, but I thank you in advance for your help. If ya need any more info let me know