Right, so, the other day my HD started playing up. It would turn on and off for about 5 seconds and then be fine for a while before it'd do it again. I was playing BF2 at the time, and I crashed a chopper a few times as a result. The gunner wasnt pleased
Since then, everything is taking a lot longer to do. XP takes ages to load (about 3minutes - used to be within 30seconds...) and BF2 has taken 10-15 minutes to load a map. It used to take 1 loop through one of the songs on load, now it takes about 4-6 in comparison....
It has also affected my fps, not by much, but it is noticable (mainly when in jets and helis).
As a result, 24/7 servers are now all I can do - preferably maps with 99 rounds before map reload (lol).
First off, I thought to try a defrag. Last time I defragged my main HD was about a year ago (its an 80Gb), and it said it was 40% fragmented!! So I did it, it took 14 hours to do (9pm - 11am next day).
Loaded BF2, no difference.
I just thought that the HD must be bollocksed so I went to backup EF, AF and patch 1.41 onto CD to save redownloading them. Went into Nero, set my usual burn speed of 40x and when it started to burn it said:
"Cannot write at 40x speed, writing at 24x speed since the source is too slow".
i.e. the hard-disk.
So, I tried putting in a spare HD we got (my old one) which also used to burn @ 40x speed no problem. Put it in, installed XP and Nero, went to burn a CD...same message came up saying it could only write @ 24x speed.
I can safely say that it is not the hard disk that is the problem.
Im no wiz, but im assuming its the motherboard or maybe a bus or something. Ive looked through all of the BIOS settings and nothing strikes me as obvious.
I dont want to go buying a new motherboard or whatever if thats not the problem, so does anyone have any ideas on what might have caused this, why its happened and how to fix it?
Since then, everything is taking a lot longer to do. XP takes ages to load (about 3minutes - used to be within 30seconds...) and BF2 has taken 10-15 minutes to load a map. It used to take 1 loop through one of the songs on load, now it takes about 4-6 in comparison....
It has also affected my fps, not by much, but it is noticable (mainly when in jets and helis).
As a result, 24/7 servers are now all I can do - preferably maps with 99 rounds before map reload (lol).
First off, I thought to try a defrag. Last time I defragged my main HD was about a year ago (its an 80Gb), and it said it was 40% fragmented!! So I did it, it took 14 hours to do (9pm - 11am next day).
Loaded BF2, no difference.
I just thought that the HD must be bollocksed so I went to backup EF, AF and patch 1.41 onto CD to save redownloading them. Went into Nero, set my usual burn speed of 40x and when it started to burn it said:
"Cannot write at 40x speed, writing at 24x speed since the source is too slow".
i.e. the hard-disk.
So, I tried putting in a spare HD we got (my old one) which also used to burn @ 40x speed no problem. Put it in, installed XP and Nero, went to burn a CD...same message came up saying it could only write @ 24x speed.
I can safely say that it is not the hard disk that is the problem.
Im no wiz, but im assuming its the motherboard or maybe a bus or something. Ive looked through all of the BIOS settings and nothing strikes me as obvious.
I dont want to go buying a new motherboard or whatever if thats not the problem, so does anyone have any ideas on what might have caused this, why its happened and how to fix it?