- #Drivers maxtor diamond max 10 jumper settings drivers#
- #Drivers maxtor diamond max 10 jumper settings update#
#Drivers maxtor diamond max 10 jumper settings update#
Maxtor customer support have got back to me after just a day (which is nice!) and they say that a firmware update will not fix the issue I was having and that it's a problem with the VIA chipset. Now my ASUS A8V-MX motherboard DOES support S-ATA II as well as S-ATA drives and I'm using the latest 0503 BIOS so why can I not run this drive at full speed? Admittedly it does seem much faster than the E-IDE 133 drive I had but it's frustrating knowing that I'm only running the new drive at half it's potential speed so what do I do? Even though I'm using the VIA chipset, I though I'd try it once more and lo and behold, the drive works fine with no problems at all!!! With my old drive up and running I was able to find out that this Maxtor drive has some kind of incompatibility issue with some nForce 4 chipsets and has to run in S-ATA I mode by setting the jumper on the back of the drive.
Fortunately 95% of my data was on the C and D partitions so I didn't lose anything of value.
#Drivers maxtor diamond max 10 jumper settings drivers#
Alas my older second drive which had been used to store my drivers and backups of programs and documents had died for some reason and was no longer recognised by Windows. Thinking the new drive was faulty, I decided to fit the original two drives again and forget about S-ATA II. Sometimes the drive would boot into Windows successfully but it was very hit and miss and performance was very, very strange with lots of long pauses when transferring data and a juddery mouse pointer. I used Acronis TrueImage to clone the C and D partitions onto the new drive but when I tried to boot from the new drive I kept getting long black screens during bootup followed by a blue screen of death error message stating that the drive was an "Unmountable Boot Device". I've just fitted a 300GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10 S-ATA II hard drive into my computer, partitioned into three, to replace the two E-IDE hard drives I had.Įverything was going so well.
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