Last night i did loads of scans on my hard drive looking for errors and bad sectors etc etc and found none at all but seatools (seagate diag program) fails on a short DST test (Drive Self Test) but passes on the long test.. im in contact with seagate about this to find out if there is a problem or not.
Slow Boot.. well ive siwtched to my other motherboard witch is better and worse.. the mobo i was using was an asus p5b with an intel p965 chipset and a ICH8 for the south bridge.. im now using an ECS EliteGroup PF5 Extreme and thats intel 945 with ICH7 but the mobo has way more features and a Silicon Image SATA controller rather than a JMicron.. so i switched mobos and reinstalled vista and things seem much faster now... but my performance index for hard drive is still only 5.5
would of thought it gone up!! but so far all seems well.. im still in the process of installing all my progams and stuff.. i got all my drivers installed with no problems at all
CD Problems... well these still continue.. if i use a cd thats scractched even just a little bit and the drive cant read the data that im trying to get to.. then windows just dies.. it dont crash as such but i cant get to the task manager, cant do anything! open any more programs.. close the cd window.. i have to reset the pc.. I have just done a firmware update on my dvd drive to see if that will solve the issue.. ill let you know after i test some disks.
Wish me luck!
