I have a ata100 pci card with a 30gb western digital ata 100 hard drive. I also have a Asus DVD-ROM on a system with a 500 mhz amd k6-2. A asus p5-a mb and 358 mb of ram. I put the card into the system in a pci slot with the hard drive in the master slot and the dvd-rom in the secondary slot both set to master. Then on the mb i have a CD-RW drive set as slave on the secondary slot. The problem is when i am running programs either from the harddrive or from the dvd-rom (ie. games) i get errors or it will lock up. It is not centered on one or two programs it is all of them. I thought that i might have corrupted windows when i put in the card so i tried reinstalling windows with the card in it. While installing windows ME i began getting errors. I would format and start over when i received the errors. I finaly installed windows without any errors so i thought everything was okay. But it was not the end to the errors. I don't know what to do anymore. I have pulled out the card and everything works okay know, no errors, but the motherboard wont allow the hard drive or the dvd-rom to run any faster than 33bytes per second. I tried moving the card to anther slot to see if that fixes it, but that did not work. If anyone has any other sugestions i would be greatful. I have a SB live 5.1 sound card in one pci slot, one us robotics modem in the isa slot, and an ATI 64mb radeon video card in the AGP slot. Is there a particular slot that i should have the ATA Card in or the sound card should be in?

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Bradley Marden
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