hi everyone

I have a HDD problem that raised when I bought anew hard!!!
I have bought brand new Maxtor SATA HDD 500 GB (MODEL: ST3500418AS). and replaced my old Maxtor IDE HDD, 40GB with the new one.
my main board is Asrock model: P4VM800 with two SATA port.
I have a 2.5 GHz Cpu and 1280 Mb ( acctualy a 1GB +256 MB on two slaves!!) of RAM.but when I run my xp windows it takes something about 4 or 5 time longer for windows to startup!!!
it also takes 9 min to copy a 1GB file from one drive to another and during the data TRANSFER my Cpu goes 100% usage!!
more interesting is that when my windows is starting up, before the "welcome screen " appear the monitor goes off for 15 second and again gets On!!!
these are some STRANGE events that happened after I changed my Hard drive.
can anyone solve my problem ??
this is driving me crazy!!

I bought this new hard drive because the older one was slow but this new is even worse!!

I can provide any other info if its necessary
thanx guysSATA or IDE ? ?

PS. There is no slaving with RAM.patio. He said he bought a sata drive to replase and ide drive. Second line after "hi everyone"

That is really perplexing. My guess would be that the sata drive is faulty. You may have just been very unlucky and got the one in the store that was bad.I may be barking up the wrong tree, but have you checked your profile SIZE? Are you copying from your desktop?Try re-installing your MBoard drivers...including SATA.