I recenly bought a Segate 160GB parallel ATA hdd. I have a Pentium III 1.05B GHz on 810e motherboard with 384 MB RAm. The problem is whenever the hdd is connected in any configuration[ie.- primary,secondary,master,slave] my PC slows down considerably. I use WinXP Pro+SP2 with all the latest updates. BIOS detects the disk size as 136GB.
Can a BIOS update fix this problem?
Also when the hdd is not connected my PC works just fine.