Glitchy Video Since Hard Disc Upgrade

[steves]

Hi,

Does anyone have any ideas about the following?

I've recently upgraded from a 40Gb drive (Seagate Barracuda)
to a 160GB drive (Seagate Barracuda IV 7200rpm).

Ever since the upgrade I'm getting the occasional blip in my recordings where
it skips a bit. It's definitely the recordings as it's repeatable when I do a rewind.

Now I'm pretty sure this is likely to be a driver issue, but before I go ripping up the system and potentially making it a lot worse does anyone have any suggestions over which driver?

I'm using PVR-150 with my original drivers off the CD.
MVP for playback.
VIA Mini-ITX EPIA V8000 with the latest drivers available for the board (circa 2003).
256Mb RAM
Machine is exclusively for GB-PVR.

Any suggestions about the most stable PVR-150 driver? (I've only had one instance of no sound, recordings are always 10secs-1minute shorter than they should be.)

Cheers

Steve

[capone]

You should see if it also happens if you use WMP or other video player. If it is the HD for some reason, maybe you don't have a good cluster size, or aren't defraging enough (it's a larger span for files to choose where to add). If you used some propriatary setup disk (a disk the HD came w/), it may have added things to "help" that monitoring or something.

I have had good luck w/ hcw2.0.30.23083 consistantly, but it will depend on the specific revision of your 150.

[Olof]

check drivers from http://www.viaarena.com/ ....4in1

[pBS]

and make sure DMA is enabled on both primary and secondary ide interfaces...
[in device manager] it will also show you the udma mode it's running in there..
also check write caching in the drive properties..
[they sometimes default to pio on new installs]
considering it's a new install it shouldn't be fragged yet..
also look at the performance/quiet settings of the drive..they have some utility to change this on their web site...[may not be set to top performance settings from factory]
did you reinstall everything or just do transfer of old files?