I love this PC, it is our family computer at home. It is pretty enough for browsing the internet, document editing and playing some (sniper) games (eg. OF Red River :) ). It is almost completely silent and consumes not so much power. I wanted to add an SSD to the system to speed up at least the boot times. Finally, I achieved 1 minutes less boot time after moving virtual memory, virus scanner etc. programs to the SSD, but it was a pain to get the drive working in the system.
The old motherboard has nVidia nForce 430 chipset and after googling, it is pretty buggy. Many SSDs are not recognized at all in the system (like in my case) and it has regular problems with (at least) Samsung hard drives (they need to be forced to SATA I with a Samsung software tool). I bought a cheap ASM1061 chipset based SATA PCIe add-on card from ebay, but that one also did not work; Windows XP went frozen when the card was recognized and its driver installed.
How to fix the situation: The SATA PCIe card does not freeze the computer if the third and forth on-board SATA ports were disabled in the BIOS (bang my head to the wall...). SSD works perfectly with the add-on card without any issues after this change.
Well that is it. :)
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XP-n ne felejtsd majd el az "alignálást" is:
http://prohardver.hu/teszt/mindent_az_ssd-krol/particio_kezdetenek_eltolasa.html
@Balázs: Köszi a tippet, majd későbbre észben tartom, de jelenleg az SSD nem igazi boot disk. Csak átmozgattam pár dolgot az SSD-re (virtuális memória, nagyobb programok, amik bootoláskor elindulnak), nincsen lelki erőm egy többéves XP install-t újra fellapátolni, nem éri meg. Majd ha Windows 7-re váltunk, veszek egy nagyobb SSD-t és már arra fogom felrakni.
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