
Solutions to Some Common Symptoms |
■If your computer has a
■Run SCANDISK.EXE and DEFRAG.EXE periodically on your hard drive (see your Windows manual for more information). These programs improve access times to the hard drive, which will help improve system performance while writing to and reading from the
■A small number of older hard drives are designed with a
Known compatibility problems.
■Check the Readme file that came with the
■Check the web site listed on page
Checking for resource conflicts.
In rare cases, your computer’s IDE controller may be having a resource conflict where another device is trying to use the IDE controller’s I/O base address or interrupt request channel (IRQ). To check for this type of conflict:
■In Windows 95,
■In Windows NT, if this type of conflict is present, you will see an error message when you start up Windows NT. Follow the directions in the error message box.
Chapter 3: Problem Solving