Cdrom/HDD performance in win2k HORRIBLE! HELP!!!

[ghostboarder]

hey everyone, recently i made the jump to windows2k, and i have noticed ever since i installed it, my cdrom and hard drive performance has went out the window!! My hard drive has been noticeably slower (i even installed another 128mb of ram this past weekend!) and my 50x/24x cdrom drives act like 1x now...funny, because i dont have any problems with burning cd's. I know there are some IDE settings i can change, but i dont exactly know which ones would be the ones to change, and whether or not they would solve the problem. Games take FOREVER to install, and the drive just keeps spooling up and running down!!! ANY help would be greatly appreciated!!

FYI P3-450, 256mb ram, 16mb matrox g400, intel bx MB, quantum 13gb fireball hd, HP 7500Series 2x2x24, Acer 50x cdrom

(both cdroms on secondary ide channel; hdd on primary)

 

[Tonec]

Device manager
IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers
primary ide
secondary ide

set dma for both, doesn't do it by default

 

[ghostboarder]

Man, i tried that, it doesnt seem to help at all......i love win2k but man this is dragging, ive been avoiding installing new games because they take over a 1/2 hour to install....someone please give me an answer, before i go back to win98!!!!!, i dont know what to do, ive changed everything to dma if available, doesnt make a shred of difference. The cdroms will spin up, then suddenly slow down to idle, but will transfre data extremely slow.....i tried to install Giants tonight and it almost lockup up my computer!! please help!

 

[punkkloser]

i think i can help with the cd rom-install a fresh aspi layer,go to cdmadiaworld.com and download forceaspi,i had to do this for win2k also

 

[ghostboarder]

My aspi layer is up to date (4.60) so i cant install any updates.......also......all the sites that i go to have removed the file......

 

[ghostboarder]

could it also be my firmware?? i have had my computer since sept 99 and have never updated any of my firmware...i dont know how much of a difference that could make....

 

[AC]

what file system r u using?

 

[ghostboarder]

FAT32.....

 

[Moonbender]

Did you try installing the Intel drivers for the BX chipset? Is UDMA set to Auto in BIOS? Have you defragged the drives? Scanned for errors (CHKDSK /F)?

 

[AC]

it might only be hdd access problems, in which case the cd-rom has to wait on the hdd

check for file system errors using scandisk

enable dma