Disk access cripples my soundcard in Win2k

[Hooobi]

I've got a Philips Acoustic Edge with the latest drivers. Unfortunately, Win2k put everything on the same IRQ (i tried the standard pc workaround but it didn't really help).

Everytime a program starts to access the HD or I shut down or open a program, the sound (and video as well if i'm running any) starts to stutter quite badly.

Anyone have a clue as to how I can fix this, I'm tired of reinstalling win2k (4 times already) and have tried moving cards around in the box.

Any help appreciated.

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[AndyHui]

Open up the Command Prompt and type diskperf -n. This disables disk IO logging, and significantly decreases hard drive access overhead. Also make sure that you have DMA enabled for your drives.

 

[Hooobi]

will that affect my performance?

also, how do i check my DMA settings?

thanks

 

[AndyHui]

A reduction of overhead will mean less data passing through the system. It should speed up performance, and is not detrimental to your system in any way.

DMA can be checked from the Device Manager. You need to look at Primary and Secondary ATA/IDE Controllers. Make sure that the devices are set to DMA if Available.

 

[JokerF15]

will this also work in 98? or is it just a 2k only thang?

 

[AndyHui]

Win2K, or WinNT. By default, disk IO logging is already off in WinNT, but it is ON in Win2K.

 

[Hooobi]

errr... I can't figure out how to check DMA under the device manager. I'm looking at the drive properties but it says nothing about DMA

Did bring up another question though... my 82 gig Maxtor is on a promise card and is showing up as a scsi device... should i disable "tagged queuing" or "synchronous transfers" since it's not actually a scsi device?

 

[obenton]

SCSI is normal listing for it.