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I've had it with my piece of crap computer!
I'm a junior in highschool and i'm getting a computer NEXT summer right before i go to college, so i dont wanna spend alot on this.

Here's my problem:
I have 3 hard drives in my comp: a 3.8(C,F,G), a 1.6(D), and a 4(E). My main drive randomly shuts off, and i have to turn off my comp, and fux0r around with my IDE cables just to get it to be recognized by my comp when i turn it back on, or else my comp isnt bootable. It just happened to me right now, and its happened to me many times before. I'm pissed.

I've decided to buy a new HD, but I dont know what i should get. My comp WAS a p-75, but then upgraded processor to 133 and bought an extra 64 ram (to total 80), then upgraded motherboard to k6-2 400, and i had to get all new ram with new motherboard, so i got 64 generic, but that wasnt enough so i got another 128, which works peachy. now i have 192.

ANYWAY...i'm sick of all this BS. i want a new harddrive. i checked http://www.pricewatch.com and got this http://www.pricewatch.com/1/26/2119-1.htm

I'm torn between the top two choices. my crappy ass motherboard only has 1 PCI and 1 ISA and i'm using the PCI for my voodoo3 cuz i dont trust the onboard video processor. my ISA is free, but i dont think that can handle harddrive-style traffic.

One of the HD's is UDMA 66 and the other is ATA 100. i dont know if my motherboard can support either of them, or what. i dont know if i need a card for either of them, cuz if i do, i'm fukt. honestly, i'd be perfectly happy with a 20 gig....just something to hold me over for 14 months.....

i can supply more info if you need it to help me

PLEASE HELP

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What's even more important than whether or not your board supports the UDMA is whether or not your BIOS supports the size of the drive. Some of those older systems only recognized up to an 8-gig drive.

You can get around that two ways:


  • Get an Ultra-66/100 card that does recognize the drive size. (Though that's out as you already mentioned.)
  • If you're using NT or Win2k you can use extended volume sets to use the rest of the drive. (I know NT can, anyone confirm if 2k can?)

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I can't confirm anything. My P166 was dead set against using anything bigger than 8Gig. Nothing Win2K could do about it... then again, I may not have tried very hard.
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The best advise I can give you is this: you're looking for free computer tech support? Here's mine. Get a new computer. Next.

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actually i tried to upgrade my bios a while ago and i ended up nuking it, so now i have a new bios that can handle drives up to 137 gigs....

so which of the two should i get?
here are the specs on my bios:
http://www.unicore.com/biosupgrades/why.cfm

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i can totally relate to your crappy computer problem. I have a 4 year old IBM Aptiva. It's slower then hell. Anycommand i give it it takes the thing like 10 minutes to figured out what i just did. I blame this problem on my parents. They have very little intrest in computers so they don't understand how crappy ours is. oh well. maybe oneday i'll have enough $ to get my own. that'll be the day.

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PostIcon Posted on: Apr. 30 2001,00:44 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
Get the ATA/100... I have yet to see an ATA/33/66/100 drive that was not backwards compatible to plain vanilla IDE (except for the aformentioned size limitations in some BIOSes). The ATA/100 likely is a newer design, and I tend to trust Quantum more than some of the other brands listed there (Maxtor, Seagate, and IBM are also good). IBM=the sh*t
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don't we have a geek forum for cool stuff like this?

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it says Fast-ATA Mode 4 on the bios features page i gave a link to up there, but it doesnt say ATA 100.....it does day UDMA 66, though...does mode 4 mean 100?
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Fast ATA Mode 4 (or more accurately, ATA/ATAPI-5 using Ultra DMA mode 4) runs at 66.6MB/s (with the special 80-conductor cable, of course).

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