Bad performance on new conroe build

wesley · 27 Aug 2006 at 11:27

try 7zip first to uncompress this rar file

if same, then deffo something wrong with winXP, have you touch the pagefile/temp folder or anything like that?

Trixter · 27 Aug 2006 at 11:32

NathanE · 27 Aug 2006 at 12:01

Sounds like your hard drives are running in PIO mode.

Trixter · 27 Aug 2006 at 12:40

hybrid · 27 Aug 2006 at 12:44

Trixter said:
Nathan thanks for the help.

The drive was running in PIO mode 4, ive set it to 0 its now doing it in 20 minutes instead of 30.

Is there any other options i could change ?

Thanks.

It should be running in mode 4 mate. Thats the fastest. iirc

barnettgs · 27 Aug 2006 at 12:45

Erm, aren't you meant to run DMA instead of PIO? :confused:

hybrid · 27 Aug 2006 at 12:46

You also might wanna download the util from seagates website and check out that hard drive.

hybrid · 27 Aug 2006 at 12:48

barnettgs said:
Erm, aren't you meant to run DMA instead of PIO?

lol - yup. For hard drives these days they mostly use DMA. So yeah, maybe the op should check his settings.

Think the max transfer rate for mode 5 DMA is ~100MB/s whereas PIO is about 16.5MB/s

Trixter · 27 Aug 2006 at 13:08

jbloggs · 27 Aug 2006 at 14:03

DVD rewriters should be running in at least UDMA mode 2, and an IDE HDD (7200rpm) running in at least UDMA 5 or 6.

Echo toxin · 27 Aug 2006 at 15:15

Firstly - I don't think PIO/UDMA affects SATA devices. For example, on my NVIDIA nForce4 Serial ATA Controller in Device Manager, the channels say "Serial ATA Generation 1 - 1.5G" in the transfer mode box.

I have my DVD writer on my Primary ATA channel and it says transfer mode - DMA if available, current transfer mode: Ultra DMA Mode 4.

I have a DVD-ROM on the Secondary ATA channel and it says transfer mode - DMA if available, current transfer mode: Ultra DMA Mode 5.

These drivers are using the nVidia nForce chipset drivers - is there a manufacturer's own chipset driver set for your motherboard?

Trixter · 27 Aug 2006 at 15:27

Echo toxin · 27 Aug 2006 at 17:14

Have you got the latest (1.10) BIOS? Have you installed the INF 7.2.2.1006 driver?

Trixter · 27 Aug 2006 at 17:25

hominid · 27 Aug 2006 at 17:43

Is the drive properly defragged?

That will slow it down some, but not to the extent that you are seeing..

Trixter · 27 Aug 2006 at 17:52

barnettgs · 27 Aug 2006 at 18:11

Chipset driver?

Trixter · 27 Aug 2006 at 18:43

barnettgs · 27 Aug 2006 at 20:20

Have you tried changing cable? Have you checked BIOS settings for harddrive?

Last of all, if it's still the same after XP re-install then I can guess it is either motherboard or harddrive.