[x]
Posted via EE Mobile

Search, ask, and monitor your questions on the go with EE Mobile. Visit Experts Exchange from your mobile device and never be out of touch again.
Question
[x]
Attachment Details
[x]
The Solution Rating System

With so many solutions, how can you tell which solutions are most likely to help you and which ones are not? To provide you with a tool to use, we rate our solutions based on various elements that most accurately determine if a solution is a quality solution. To explain what factors affect the solution rating, here are the elements we take into consideration when formulating our solution rating.

  • The Grade of the Solution
  • The Zone Rank of the Expert Providing the Solution
  • The Number of Author and Expert Comments
  • The Number of Experts Contributing
  • The Feedback of the Community

Your Input Matters
Because of the way the system is set up, the most important variable in this equation is you. As a member of Experts Exchange, you are able to cast your vote on the quality of the solutions in regard to how complete, accurate, helpful and easy to understand each solution is. When you provide your feedback, each rating is adjusted accordingly. So, if you see a solution that has a poor rating that you think is a good solution, let us know by rating it. As you do, the rating will be adjusted and will become more accurate for other members of our site.

If you have any suggestions that you would like to make for our rating system, please ask a question in the Suggestions Zone of Community Support.

Thank you!
7.0

Enable disk write caching greyed out and not selected. How to enable???

Asked by ekim_dl in Windows XP Operating System, Computer Hard Drives

Tags: Microsoft, Windows XP Pro, Second Edition, HP, Laptop HP Pavilion Special Edition, dv6799ec

Hello all,

Three months ago I bought HP Pavilion dv6799ec Special Edition laptop. I removed Win Vista and installed Win XP. Some time afterwards I created dual boot system with Red Hat 5 Linux as my secondary system.

For some time everything was running fine and without trouble. But recently I noticed that my Win XP performance has significantly dropped down. After some investigation with Bootvis I found out that the disk write caching is disabled.

The respective field in "Device Manager/ Disks / MYDISK / Properties / Policies" is greyed out and unselected.

I have searched a lot on the internet but the solution is still missing. First I attributed the problem to the coexistence of Linux and Win XP, but yesterday I removed everything and installed Win XP anew from scratch.

After the installation the box "Enable disk write caching" was available so I selected it, but after next restart it was greyed out and unselected again.

I am really lost...

Is it drivers? Disk? Win XP?
[+][-]10/08/08 02:33 AM, ID: 22667314Expert Comment

At Experts Exchange, members can ask their questions to thousands of technology professionals, also known as Experts. Experts compete and collaborate to answer those questions by leaving comments like this one.

Start your 30-day free trial to view this Expert Comment or ask the Experts your question.

 
[+][-]10/08/08 04:16 AM, ID: 22667748Assisted Solution

Assisted solutions are selected by the member who asked the question as a comment that contributed to their question's solution.

Start your 30-day free trial to view this Assisted Solution or ask the Experts your question.

 
[+][-]10/08/08 05:21 AM, ID: 22668191Assisted Solution

Assisted solutions are selected by the member who asked the question as a comment that contributed to their question's solution.

Start your 30-day free trial to view this Assisted Solution or ask the Experts your question.

 
[+][-]10/08/08 04:17 PM, ID: 22674367Author Comment

Often, when Experts are collaborating with members who have asked questions, they will request additional information about the problem. Askers respond with an author comment like this one.

Start your 30-day free trial to view this Author Comment or ask the Experts your question.

 
[+][-]10/08/08 04:21 PM, ID: 22674383Author Comment

Often, when Experts are collaborating with members who have asked questions, they will request additional information about the problem. Askers respond with an author comment like this one.

Start your 30-day free trial to view this Author Comment or ask the Experts your question.

 
[+][-]10/08/08 04:39 PM, ID: 22674438Author Comment

Often, when Experts are collaborating with members who have asked questions, they will request additional information about the problem. Askers respond with an author comment like this one.

Start your 30-day free trial to view this Author Comment or ask the Experts your question.

 
[+][-]10/09/08 12:14 PM, ID: 22681494Author Comment

Often, when Experts are collaborating with members who have asked questions, they will request additional information about the problem. Askers respond with an author comment like this one.

Start your 30-day free trial to view this Author Comment or ask the Experts your question.

 
[+][-]10/09/08 12:27 PM, ID: 22681607Author Comment

Often, when Experts are collaborating with members who have asked questions, they will request additional information about the problem. Askers respond with an author comment like this one.

Start your 30-day free trial to view this Author Comment or ask the Experts your question.

 
[+][-]10/09/08 11:20 PM, ID: 22684634Expert Comment

At Experts Exchange, members can ask their questions to thousands of technology professionals, also known as Experts. Experts compete and collaborate to answer those questions by leaving comments like this one.

Start your 30-day free trial to view this Expert Comment or ask the Experts your question.

 
[+][-]10/10/08 01:20 AM, ID: 22685069Author Comment

Often, when Experts are collaborating with members who have asked questions, they will request additional information about the problem. Askers respond with an author comment like this one.

Start your 30-day free trial to view this Author Comment or ask the Experts your question.

 
[+][-]10/10/08 01:48 AM, ID: 22685176Accepted Solution

View this solution now by starting your 30-day free trial. Setting up your free trial is quick, easy, and secure. We will return you to this solution, unlocked, when you're done.

About this solution

Zones: Windows XP Operating System, Computer Hard Drives
Tags: Microsoft, Windows XP Pro, Second Edition, HP, Laptop HP Pavilion Special Edition, dv6799ec
Sign Up Now!
Solution Provided By: ded9
Participating Experts: 4
Solution Grade: B
 
[+][-]10/15/08 01:27 PM, ID: 22725455Author Comment

Often, when Experts are collaborating with members who have asked questions, they will request additional information about the problem. Askers respond with an author comment like this one.

Start your 30-day free trial to view this Author Comment or ask the Experts your question.

 
 
Loading Advertisement...
20091111-EE-VQP-89 / EE_QW_2_20070628