Motherboard or HDD causing lag. Help?

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avbryan

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Hi there. I have an ASUS CM5570 Essentio tower that is rather new. The problem I am having happened after I tried to add an additional internal HD. The motherboard only has SATA ports and my old HD is IDE. I bought a IDE to SATA Converter. Plugged it in, couldn't get it to be recognized at all. Also when it was plugged in, the main HD couldn't be recognized. Tried a few different configurations and decided to take it out and buy a external enclosure for the drive. Ever since then, I've noticed some lag mainly in sound. It happens while listening to pandora, itunes or in video.

I opened up the side of the pc and checked that the SATA cables were all tight. When I wiggled the main HD a little the lag started on the music. I tried another cable, I tried another port, what is going on? Any ideas? Is the HD messed up? Or the motherboard? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
 
try resetting cmos, the bios could has an issue detecting and setting the frequency of the sata controller. if still no luck try benchmarking your hard drive using HD TUNE.
 
Thanks for the reply! I tried resetting the CMOS. I thought that fixed it, but after 30 minutes or so music started cutting out again. I did a benchmark test on hd tune, seemed good. I'm running an error scan right now. I get a bunch of stuff running to test it, it takes a while to get it to start lagging.

Actually, im testing a few things right now. Ive got itunes playing, thats how i can tell if its lagging. Sometimes when I load a webpage in firefox it starts lagging bad and the browser takes longer to load than it should. Almost like the network card is lagging as well. But, it's not consistent. So, I am having a hard time determining what's going on.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
 
Ok, so I figured out a solution. I don't know if it's the root problem, but it works. I plugged in a usb wifi card and disabled the internal asus wifi card that came with the pc. Now I never have the problem. I'm not sure if it's the card, the mobo or software issue. Haven't had a lot of time to troubleshoot it.
 
try updating the bios to the latest revision. if still no luck, do as you said disable the onboard asus nic. and just use the usb wireless adapter. the reason I i tell you to update the bios is because you said in your previous post you though resetting the cmos fixed it, so maybe a bios flash possibly might fix the issue, it could be a motherboard controller issue, bus frequency issue, bandwidth issue all caused by the bios not detecting the controller or setting the bus frequency correctly.
 
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