Device Manager IDE CONTROLLER!

[Thyezer]

I recently upgraded to a an AMD 64 bit 3400 processor,motherboard....

I swapped my harddrives and dvd burner into the new system...and low and behold....I didn't have to reinstall XP. The new sytem accepted my old boot drive without any changes. The problem is ...in device manager it is listing both primary and secondary IDE controllers as having problems. This system should be alot faster than my older AMD 1300, but it doesn't seem to be running correct. Anyone want to give me some pointers as far as IDE controllers or how to fix this situation. Thanks

 

[Enkrypted]

What you will need to do is run the Chipset utility program off of the CD that came with the motherboard. The system is still seeing the old IDE controllers information from your last motherboard. If you are unsure what program it is or you do not have the CD, post what model motherboard you have so we can help you find the correct program.

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[paparazi]

My advice, for what it's worth, would be to backup anything you want to save then clean install XP.

I suppose you could try and get around this but the benefits of clean installing surely outweight the potential pitfalls of driver conflicts and possible instability.

Martin

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[Thyezer]

I formatted my drives, and did a clean install. That fixed the IDE problem... The Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-K8VM800M. COuld I possibly have something set up wrong? This machine doesn't seem faster than my last (AMD 1300). It should be flying (AMD 64 3400) but I don't see the speeds I was expecting? Any advice? Thanks in advance!
XP PRO
AMD 64 3400
GA-K8VM800M Mobo
1 Gig PC3200

 

[micker377]

Where are you looking for a speed increase? If it's hard drive access, it won't be any faster. You would have to run a benchmark program to find a difference in system operation. Where you would see a difference is running a large database program, or programs written to use the 64bit CPU.