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February 10th, 2004 15:00
HardDrive Problems
My computer is super slow when iam browseing the internet, I added a secondary harddrive to my computer and i don`t think that it is right. I used the software "maxtor" that came with the new harddrive to set it up, Installed xp pro and os on the new drive and fomated the old drive. When i restart into setup both drives are on the secondary master & slave and my cd devices are on primary master & slave. So i tried to change the harddrives to primary but my computer did not find the drives, So i had to set it back to the way it was.
How do i put new drive on primary and get my computer to work right? I know this is why my computer is so slow because i have all of the updates, no virus, defrag, delete cookies, run disk cleanup and cmos as been reset.
Any Help Would Be Appreciated.
Hoss
Specs:
Dimension 8100 w/Window Kit
Windows XP Pro w/SP-1
PL-P4/N 2.6GHz Intel Pentium 4
250 Watts Power Supply
BIOS Version XP2
120GB HardDrive #1
40GB HardDrive #2
1024MB RDRAM PC800 non-ecc
Samsung 48X CD-RW/16X DVD Combo
HP 48X CD-RW 9150i
Wireless IntelliMouse® Explorer
NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 w/AGP8X 64Mb
SoundBlaster Audigy 2 (WDM)
ALTEC LANSING 5100 5.1 Speakers
HP PhotoSmart 7350 Printer
HP Precisionscan Pro 3.1
Dell M781p Monitor
1.5Mbps DSL
osprey4
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February 10th, 2004 18:00
XP should still work fine. If not, well, I'm afraid you'd have needed to reinstall anyway. You need to ensure the chipset drivers are properly installed immediately after the OS.
rhoss1
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February 10th, 2004 19:00
Thanks, osprey4
i will try again and see what iam doing wrong, What do you mean chipset drivers? You mean my bios drivers?
Hoss
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February 10th, 2004 20:00
once you swap the IDE cables, boot to BIOS, turn on all 3 keyboard lights (Cap, Scroll, Num Lock) then press ALT+E then ALT+F the save settings & reboot, this should force IDE redetection.
The 8100 series system required the Intel 850 chipset utility to be installed. This is found on your Dell Dimension Resource CD, or can be downloaded from Dell or Intel. The chipset should be the 1st driver installed after reinstalling the operating system
rhoss1
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February 11th, 2004 14:00
Got It FIX!!!
Thanks to ospray4 and everyone for helping.
Hoss
osprey4
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February 11th, 2004 15:00