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comp locks up transfering big files from 2 different harddrives

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Taylorm

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i did a little test. i tried to copy a 600meg iso from C: to D: 10 times and out of that test my comp locked up solid *4* times. Something is definantly wrong

C: is a 15gb ibm 75gxp
D: is a 15gb ibm 75gxp

can someone please help me!! IM NOT USING RAID

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In device manager it doesnt give me the option to click dma but when i installed via 4in 1's i selected dma.

also i just noticed that only one of my ibm drives show up in device manager even thought i have 2 exactly the same kind and they both work fine. hmm?
 
I used to have the same problem with the Highpoint controller on my BE6. Highpoint sucks. Eventually they came out with BIOS and driver updates that fixed the problem but that took forever.
I am guessing the board you have uses a Highpoint controller. I don't know, I am just guessing because it is Abit and Abit likes to put Highpoint controllers on their motherboards. You should look into BIOS and driver updates for your board.

Also, I THINK that since you are running the drives off of that add-on controller, the controller automatically enables DMA so checking it in the properties, even if you put a checkbox there, wouldn't do anything.

Edit-
There are Abit newsgroups you can check to see if others are having this problem. I would look into them if I were you. There are links to a whole bunch of them on the Support page at Abit's Website.
 
I had a similar problem when running Via's busmastering IDE drivers (part of their 4-in-1 package). Sticking with the Windows default IDE drivers solved the problem for me, although I did reformat/reinstall Windows so it could have been something else.
 
I have the latest highpoint drivers and i also got the latest bios for kt7 released a few days ago.

each drive is on its own channel ide3 and 4 (highpoint) as master



Maybe i should try putting the 2 harddrives on ide 1 and 2?
How much of a speed difference would there be?
 
Taylorm--I have had that problem in the past on VIA chipset mobos. A couple things that worked for me (at different times--SS7 mobos):

1. I had no problems as long as each hard drive was on its own ribbon, with nothing else on that ribbon.

2. Weird, but a few times after a lockup during file xfer, I overwrote my explorer.exe with a "good" copy, and this fixed things. I speculated that it had gotten corrupted during one of the lockups.
--Randy
 
I extracted it from my .cab files on the Win9x cd, then just copied it in DOS mode (I think it prompts overwrite Y/N?). However, I would suggest before you do this, you make a copy of your current explorer.exe file & maybe your registry, so you can restore if necessary. I can't imagine it causing a problem, but, I always make copies before I do something like this.

The first time it hit me to get a "clean" explorer.exe was after my xfers kept locking up. I got to asking myself, "what is the same here". It hit me that all the xfers used explorer.exe. I believe this is the case whether you xfer by copy/paste, in Windows Explorer, or in My Computer. I reason that all of these use explorer.exe, because that is the one main file that always has to be running in Win9x.

Yeah, it probably won't help....but, it did for me, several times. Actually, this was when I was using W95b.

Also, if you are using W98SE, I believe it has a "file check" or something to check critical files for corruption? I haven't used it, but I think my Dad has. Dunno....just thinking here.
--Randy
 
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