New HDD Playing choppy video

[foofighters]

I recently installed a new master hard drive in my system, the Maxtor 6L300R0 300GB 16mb cache ATA model. I upgraded from the Maxtor 6B200P0 200GB ATA model. I now have the 300GB as my primary drive with Windows on it, and the 200GB as a slave with just a few big files on. Since I upgraded to my 300GB HDD, any video files I play off it has stuttering video. If I put the same file on the 200GB HDD, it plays perfectly. Do you have any suggestions of what I can do?

I have the latest chipset drivers, and have tried a different cable. I know my mainboard is poop, but surely this cannot be causing my problem.

Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: VIA Technologies, Inc.
System Model: P4X400-8235
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Memory: 1024MB RAM
Page File: 407MB used, 2056MB available
Windows Dir: C:WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Please help.

 

[dmroeder]

I'm not sure if this would cause it or not, but I know it causes problems with optical drives. Try going to the Device Manager and looking at what mode the IDE channels are in. They should be in DMA mode (Not PIO). Again, I'm just guessing.

 

[foofighters]

Yeah, I have had the 200GB and the 300GB running seperatly and only the problem on the 300GB. I also currently have the 200GB as a slave and if I run the files off that with the 300GB as the main hdd, it plays fine. Play it straight off the 300GB, choppy as hell.

They are both set as DMA if available.

Thanks for giving suggestions, keep them coming please.

 

[foofighters]

Just a quick update..........

I have kinda fixed the problem........ in a half-arsed way 😛

Installing the VIA BETA IDE Accelerator Driver seems to have fixed the playback issues. It is beta and will be included in the 4 in 1 drivers in the future, but at the moment is in testing and has some known minor issues. If you have been having similar problems to me and have a VIA chipset, I can recommend installing the driver before you try a format.

http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=420&OSID=1&CatID=1180&SubCatID=148

I still have a low drive index, hence the half-arsed fix....... but my video playback is fine now so I am partially happy 😛

Thanks for your help Wusy, ur ok for a Kiwi 😛

 

[Rob423]

lmfao.