iamii

Hey,

I just installed a 250 GB maxtor harddrive underneath my original HD. Now when ever I access the new drive the audio on my pc gets distorted. Once the read or the write to the drive is complete the audio is normal again.

Anyone have any idea why this might be happening?

-thanks

Gebbinn

Sounds to me like the issue is with data throughput. You are transferring data at a high rate of speed, this takes a lot from the processor. Are you running an onboard audio card, or an expansion type card.. if your running the expansion card, make sure your CDrom is plugged in via audio cable, and try playing a regular CD in it while you transfer data from HD to HD. If that doesnt distort then the problem is your data transfer is overloading your processor... either get a faster system or just deal with it.

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iamii

I am using onboard audio on a p4s800 motherboard.

Holo

Try muting the PC speaker in sndvol32.

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Lasereth

This is a known problem. It can usually be fixed by installing the hard drive IDE drivers for your motherboard. I can't remember if you get the drivers from the hard drive site or motherboard site, but I do know that this fixes the issue in most cases. The distortion is fixed by installing the correct IDE drivers that are compatible with your hard drive.

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iamii

Ok, I downloaded a new sis driver for my motherboard, (p4s800) and the utility tells me that the second harddrive is in "PIO mode 4" and the first is in UDMA mode 6... How would I change the second to UDMA as well from PIO?

Cocktopus

in "Device Manager", under "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" right click the channel the drive is on (primary/secondary)->"properties"->"Advanced Settings".

Sounds like PIO mode is the problem for the distortion/slow transfers

iamii

Thank you very much, just fixed the problem.