Help needed! Urgent!!

[asbereth]

I've got the problem with my hard drive. Just FYI, it just happens recently (which I don't even know why, it used to be working just fine). Whenever my computer is rebooted with my 2nd hard drive activated, it suffers a serious slowdown (not an usual slow down, it's almost being a lockup. WHenever I click on everything [be it on the desktop or my computer or everything], before the icon highlighted, my computer kinda like locks up for about 45 seconds - 1 minute). So, all I could do was deactivate my 2nd hard drive via disc management, reboot the computer and activate it again after it being rebooted. Strangely, the slowdown doesn't occur this way. So whenever I'm to turn off my computer, I've to "remove" my 2nd hard drive using disc management, and "add" it again the next time I turn it on. Anybody knows what wrong is with that?

[crouse]

Don't know the answer myself...... but I'll bump it for you... maybe someone will see this that does.

BTW .... welcome to techimo!!

[asbereth]

Well, do you understand what I'm talking about there? Or shall I reword it? or is my previous post clear enough? If no, I think I will reword it.

[crouse]

I think it's clear enough.......

Have you

1. checked all the connections to the motherboard and hard drives ?

2. checked the pin settings on the hard drives.

3. Checked the bios to make sure the settings there are correct.

......... if it's a M$ software issue..... someone else will have to help..... I'm not M$ guru

[meese]

Check the event logs when you boot with both drives for warnings or errors that may be related to ATAPI or IDE controller. Is the second drive connected as a slave on the same IDE cable as the master drive?

[DoctorReno]

Are you using XP? Have you checked to see if DMA is correctly enabled for both drives. Also, how do you have the drives configured ie. are they both on the same IDE cable?... opps I see meese asked this also so maybe it IS relevant.

[gentry_joey]

Maybe your running low on power. Maybe its a power supply prob.

[asbereth]

The last time I open my computer was last year, so I can't be really sure, but IIRC, I did use the same IDE cable for both of them. As for the event logs, yes, I've seen lots of error things there that I don't even understand what they mean. And can power supply really have anything to do with it? I mean, the hard drive works just fine, as long as my computer doesn't reboot with it being activated. I can still activate my hard drive (via disc management) after it's rebooted.

[asbereth]

I've got it. Like someone has suspected earlier, it's a software problem. All I did was reinstalling the anti-virus (NAV 2003), and everything is working the way it should have been. Thanks everyone.