Slow SATA II drives

[dpdg]

I bought a SATA II hard drive and ended up taking it back. The reason was that any application that has a scrollbar such as IE, Word, etc. when scrolling up or down would kind of make a wave going down the page -- which was very irritating. In otherwords, scrolling up and down is super slow as compared to the way it works on my SATA I harddrive.

The original harddrive that came with my machine was an SATA I, doesn't do that. I just hit the "page down" button and the page instantly goes straight down a page -- none of this wave stuff.

I traded the SATA II harddrive for another one, since they said that it was a defect in the harddrive that made it do that. I've just finished OSing this one, and to my surprise this one scrolls down slowly just like the one I traded it in for. I seems like a lot of coincidence that I would get 2 defective harddrives in a row.

So I'm thinking that maybe there is some adjustment or some configuration to get it to stop doing that. My SATA I is faster than either one of the SATA IIs that I have had. The SATA II is supposed to be a lot faster.

(By the way, I have a duo core II processor with 2 GB of memory.)

Has anyone else had this experience? What could be causing this?

 

[cpjust]

What specific hard drives are you comparing?
What are their specs?

 

[dpdg]

To make my question simpler:

1) Is there a way to measure the speed of a harddrive?

2) Is there a configuration issue with the browser that makes a page scroll up/down slowly or is this a harddrive issue?

 

[IllogicallyLogical]

I don't see how this would be a hard drive issue as these programs are being run out of RAM after they are loaded from the hard drive. Sounds like an issue with the video card. Have you looked for updated drivers for your video card?

Joey
A+, Network+, MCP

 

[Sleepsalot]

There is a program called AIDA32 this can tell you about most any thing you want in a PC. It will run from a usb drive and does not get installed to the machine. It can be downloaded from

http://www.majorgeeks.com

just do a search it will pop up.
Wayne

Life is a big Roleplaying adventure.

Wayne

 

[linney]

Do you have the same problem in Safe Mode?

http://www.google.com/search?q=wavy+scrolling+xp&rls=com.microsoft:

http://groups.google.com/groups?um=1&tab=wg&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rls=com.microsoft:&q=wavy scrolling+xp

310353 - How to Perform a Clean Boot in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310353&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

316434 - HOW TO: Perform Advanced Clean-Boot Troubleshooting in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316434&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

310560 - How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310560&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

 

[dpdg]

Yes. I get the same problem is Safe Mode. I think it may be what IllogicallyLogical says: drivers for the video card. I'll try that.