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24-02-2006, 12:43

My sister has just bought a new pc & has left her old one with me to see if it's worth upgrading. Trouble is, according to the WWW it doesn't exist!

It's an eMachines eTower 310, bought from PC World. It has a Trigem Cognac Rev. G mobo. According to the chipset specs. (Intel FW82801AA), it should support ATA/66 transfer rates (equivalent to udma4 I believe) & the Seagate HD specs. say it is capable of udma5.

When I run Sisoft Sandra, however, it tells me that it is only transfering at udma2. I have replaced the original (40 way) IDE cable with an 80 way cable & checked the bios, which is set to udma4.

Any ideas as to how to get the max transfer rate?

24-02-2006, 12:43	#51
XFS03 Guest Location: East London (ex-C&W) Services: XL broadband ntl250 modem Posts: n/a	Re: The "I bought a computer from PC World, Currys or Dixons" Thread My sister has just bought a new pc & has left her old one with me to see if it's worth upgrading. Trouble is, according to the WWW it doesn't exist! It's an eMachines eTower 310, bought from PC World. It has a Trigem Cognac Rev. G mobo. According to the chipset specs. (Intel FW82801AA), it should support ATA/66 transfer rates (equivalent to udma4 I believe) & the Seagate HD specs. say it is capable of udma5. When I run Sisoft Sandra, however, it tells me that it is only transfering at udma2. I have replaced the original (40 way) IDE cable with an 80 way cable & checked the bios, which is set to udma4. Any ideas as to how to get the max transfer rate?