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Problem with nForce2 and IDE controllers

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Rudski

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May 13, 2002
The motherboard I got is a Leadtek NCR18D pro.
I've tried the drivers that came on the CD and also the newest drivers from the manufactures website.
I've even started swapping known working hardware into this machine with no success.

The problem:

Every time I copy files from the CDrom to the harddrive my cpu flatlines.
Installing a game or copying files such as mp3s flatlines the processor(100%).
This doesn't happen when i do hardrive to hardrive copies.

I have also notice that in hardware device manager under system (motherboard) I've got the normal Nforce2 chipset devices sush as:

nForce2 PCI system manager
nForce2 AGP host to PCI manager
nForce2 Memory Controller
nForce2 Memory Controller
nForce2 Memory Controller
nForce2 Memory Controller
nForce2 Memory Controller (yes 5 of them????)
*************************************

But then I also noticed straight under all of those controllers this:

PCI Bus
PCI standard Host CPU Bridge
PCI standard ISA Bridge
PCI standard PCI to PCI Bridge
***************************************************

The weird thing is that on my P4 I've never seen "standard" anything. Actually whenever i see windows using "standard drivers" i get worried.

How can a cdrom get the cpu to run @ full load?
The cdrom is:

LG DVD combo drive
Model: GCC-4480B
48x24x48x16

I don't know if this will help but the HDD is plugged into IDE1 and has no otherdevices hanging of it.
The CDrom is IDE2 and also has no devices sharing the controller.

On a sidenote, i never would have thought leadtek motherboards where good overclocers but I got a new 2100 @ 2.172Ghz :)
 
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Please don't tell me that no-ones heard of this problem?
Nooooooooo :p
 
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