HDD Speed automatically reduced after crash?


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    windows 7 enterprise
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    HDD Speed automatically reduced after crash?


    Hey guys

    I had several crashes with skype and hibernate. Thats a known problem with newer than 5.0.0.156 versions.

    My question - in the old xp and ide days windows slowed down the hdd after several hdd crashes automatically and on e had to add a registry key to stop xp doing that.

    Is win7 doing the same?

    I am on a asus notebook and and Intel ICH9M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller

    Ruben
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    windows 7 enterprise
    Thread Starter
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    anyone?
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    7 Ultimate x64
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    Windows slowed down the rpm of a drive... just because of a few crashes? Never heard of that happening. Got any links?
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    windows 7 enterprise
    Thread Starter
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    it was like that in xp - hang on

    here you go:

    The Neodon: Little-Known Tweak to Boost Hard Drive Performance!
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    Windows 10 Pro. EFI boot partition, full EFI boot
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    Fumz said:
    Windows slowed down the rpm of a drive... just because of a few crashes? Never heard of that happening. Got any links?

    No, XP would drop the drive out of DMA into PIO mode after enough failures (mainly a problem when the disk didn't spin up within a timeout period).

    If you want to find out, go to device manager - select your disk controller and find the channel your drive is on, select properties and advanced settings and see if it is in PIO mode instead of Ultra DMA mode
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    no chanel information to find there (:-.((
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    Windows 10 Pro x64, Windows 8.1 Pro x64, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1,
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    SATA drives operate differently, they don't change modes.
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  8. Posts : 5
    windows 7 enterprise
    Thread Starter
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    ok, so no reason to worry - thanks
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    Windows 10 Pro. EFI boot partition, full EFI boot
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    pbcopter said:
    SATA drives operate differently, they don't change modes.
    No, I had this happen to a SATA drive (under XP I believe). The OS dropped it down to PIO.
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