You're welcome!

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HTH,
Curt

Windows Support Center
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"Marcus" <holysmokes99********.com> wrote in message
news:1174110630.131897.258990@n76g2000hsh.googlegr oups.com...
> Thanks, Curt and Paul, for your comments. I didn't see your posts
> until today. For some reason this post was not showing up in my news
> reader, so I posted it again at this link:
> http://groups.google.ca/group/micros...5b4af1cdb2397f.
> It was a DMA issue.
>
> Cheers,
> Marcus
>
> On Mar 8, 9:31 am, "Curt Christianson" <curtchrist...@NOSPAMyahoo.com>
> wrote:
>> Paul,
>>
>> I've never tried that configuration myself, but I can just imagine the
>> performance. It would be hard *not* to notice. <g>
>>
>> --
>> HTH,
>> Curt
>>
>> Windows Support Centerhttp://aumha.org/
>>
>> "Paul Randall" <paulr...@cableone.net> wrote in message
>>
>> news:eqFeGzZYHHA.4264@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>
>>
>>
>> > <holysmoke...********.com> wrote in message
>> >news:1173338439.816158.98870@v33g2000cwv.googlegr oups.com...
>> >> Lately my computer has been having real trouble playing videos
>> >> (extremely jerky), and even scrolling through a long list of files in
>> >> a directory in windows explorer (jerky scrolling). I ran some tests
>> >> using HD Tune and HD Tach to see if it was a hard drive issue, and low
>> >> and behold the read speed is terrible. I am getting a maximum read
>> >> rate of about 4MB/Sec. My drive is a 120GB Maxtor 4R120LO. Is there
>> >> anything I can do to fix this? I defragged it but no difference. Can
>> >> it be saved?
>>
>> >> Thanks
>> >> Marcus
>>
>> > I once had a similar problem. I had set up my PC with two CD drives
>> > and
>> > two hard drives. I thought I would get better hard drive access if I
>> > put
>> > one CD and one hard drive on eaxh of the IDE cables. With their
>> > locations
>> > in the PC case, it seemed best to make the CDs the primary and the hard
>> > drives the secondary devices. Big mistake. It was sooooooo slow.
>> > Changing the hard drives to primary device on both IDE cables solved
>> > the
>> > problem.
>>
>> > -Paul Randall
>
>