First, relavent specs:
Win XP Pro SP1
Epox 8rda+
Western Digital SE 80 GB 8 MB Cache on Primary IDE
CD-ROM and CD-RW on Secondary IDE
Radeon 9700 Pro at 8X AGP
No PCI slots used
Onboard audio and network are used
On the newest Sandra Pro, they have this HDD scoring around 33K on Win 2K. I get about 21K. Also, I notice it seems to score low for PCMark as well... about 1K.
The HDD is clean and defraged. Plus, I formated not even 2 weeks ago.
I have tried numerous things. I've noticed that in the Device Manager, it lists my HDD as follows:
WDC WD80 0JB-00CRA1 SCSI Disk Device
Also in the Device Manager, it lists this under SCSI and RAID Controllers:
ST3MP28 SCSI Controller
OK, so is this saying my HDD is scuzzy? Cause it's not... nor do I have a scuzzy card installed.
I installed the newest Nvidia drivers for the mobo right after I installed Win XP Pro and SP1.
Anyone have any ideas on what's going on here? I would love to get my HDD up to par, so I can finally label this system 'stable'... for now, at least.
Win XP Pro SP1
Epox 8rda+
Western Digital SE 80 GB 8 MB Cache on Primary IDE
CD-ROM and CD-RW on Secondary IDE
Radeon 9700 Pro at 8X AGP
No PCI slots used
Onboard audio and network are used
On the newest Sandra Pro, they have this HDD scoring around 33K on Win 2K. I get about 21K. Also, I notice it seems to score low for PCMark as well... about 1K.
The HDD is clean and defraged. Plus, I formated not even 2 weeks ago.
I have tried numerous things. I've noticed that in the Device Manager, it lists my HDD as follows:
WDC WD80 0JB-00CRA1 SCSI Disk Device
Also in the Device Manager, it lists this under SCSI and RAID Controllers:
ST3MP28 SCSI Controller
OK, so is this saying my HDD is scuzzy? Cause it's not... nor do I have a scuzzy card installed.
I installed the newest Nvidia drivers for the mobo right after I installed Win XP Pro and SP1.
Anyone have any ideas on what's going on here? I would love to get my HDD up to par, so I can finally label this system 'stable'... for now, at least.
