Not only does switching to SATA suck, but i cant figure out this problem

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wudupdoe

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Ok, i had a ide hard drive. And one day just randomly, on random days for no reason, or if i accidently bumped into my case, my monitor would show a screwed up screen, colors in random spots, really weird. Pretty much the hard drive messed up and id have hold power button down to shut it down. PLUS my hard drive used to make this weird noise like that it is gonna fail soon......sooooo i decided i need a new hard drive, and id like to try sata since it seems to be much faster.

WRONG, well i got my sata drive now, im on windows 2000, i installed the sata drivers that came with my motherboard (being i bought a new mobo like 2 months ago) prior to installin windows 2000. AND IT SUCKS, this sata drive is noticeably slower then my other hard drive, and my other hard drive is old......
Then, yesterday and today my computer did the same thing as it would before with the screen messin up except last time it did it, the screen was all white. You also hear the click in the monitor as if you were to go to play a full screen game.....so i figure there must be a mobo problem then???? Any ideas/suggestions.
 
Well your hard drive wouldn't be able to make your screen foul up like that, it is usually a graphics card problem then, (or mobo problem if you have integrated). If your HDD is running slow then check if it is set to use UDMA. To do this in Windows 2000, right click my computer. Go to properties. Go to the hardware tab. Click Device Manager. Expand IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. Right click each item in the list, go to properties, and Advanced Settings. If there is a device in the list, make sure it says Ultra DMA Mode (then there will be a number). Check this and see if everything is running correctly.
 
how bout my sata issue, i mean shouldn't it at the very least be AS FAST as my ide? PLUS this hd is 16mb cache, old one 8, this isn't right. Do u think i got a completely defective mobo then????
 
UDMA is a high performance mode that modern hard drives use. If your hard drive has somehow reset itself to DMA then you will definitely experience slowdowns. Check if your HDD is using UDMA (per my instructions above).
 
but its on sata..
Should it show up on the primary ide controller or something????
My mobo only has one ide and one floppy no second ide....so is it supposed to only list primary on device manager cuz it shows 2....i feel my windows disc is done and i need a new one cuz its scratched up and old. could that be a possibility?
 
if your windows disk is faulty then windows wouldn't install so that won't be the problem.

Try the UDMA think and report weather it works or doesnt.
 
Should it show up on the primary ide controller or something????
My mobo only has one ide and one floppy no second ide....so is it supposed to only list primary on device manager cuz it shows 2....i feel my windows disc is done and i need a new one cuz its scratched up and old. could that be a possibility?
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Well, we don't know. Some SATA controllers default to IDE mode for compatibility purposes - my mobo did it, for example. You may have a BIOS setting enabled that emulates the SATA drives as IDE; sometimes this feature works crappy, but the problem may be something else.

i installed the sata drivers that came with my motherboard
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Installed how? If W2K didn't come with compatible drivers by default, you wouldn't even be able to start the install or boot up - I tried switching from IDE to native SATA mode, and XP BSOD'ed on me, and when I tried reinstalling, it said it couldn't detect ant HDs. You'll probably have to slipstream the SATA drivers on youw Windows installation disc (i.e. make a custom installation CD with the SATA drivers) and reinstall while having the native SATA mode enabled. Look for AHCI settings in your BIOS; there should be an option to choose the mode it operates in, I would assume IDE is enabled by default.

i installed the sata drivers that came with my motherboard (being i bought a new mobo like 2 months ago)
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How did you do that? Regardless, if your AHCI/STA controller is in IDE mode, the drivers may be messing something up causing the poor performance.
 
if your AHCI/STA controller is in IDE mode, the drivers may be messing something up causing the poor performance.
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If it is in IDE mode then they shouldn't be used then even if they were optioned in with a floppy and pressing F6.
I tried switching from IDE to native SATA mode, and XP BSOD'ed on me, and when I tried reinstalling, it said it couldn't detect ant HDs.
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That's normal. You need to make a floppy to provide AHCI drivers for XP to recognize a drive in AHCI mode. Switching with a current install is essentially the same as changing motherboards.
 
Plus what motherboard is this? You can just Slipstream SP4 to the 2000 CD and it should take care of your Sata drivers when your installing, plus you can even add the manufactures Sata drivers. That way you wont have to fool with it next time.

Like said for the Sata drivers to install it needs to be set to AHCI/SATA in the bios.
 
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