Help! Why is my SiSoft SANDRA HD benchmark so bad???

[brouillet]

I'm running the following:

* AMD Duron 750
* MSI (6330) SocaketA board (supports ATA-66)
* 128Mb Crucial RAM (CAS2)
* 30 gig IBM (75GXP) ATA-100 HD
* Windows ME

I just ran the benchmarking test on SiSoft's SANDRA 2001 utility and received an alarmingly low performance score (Drive Index) for my hard drive. Can anyone please offer some guidance as to why ans how to fix? Please refer to the scores as follows:

* MY PC - 3,789
* UDMA66 - 13,000 (Shouldn't my score be somewhere near this figure???)
* UDMA33 - 8,000
* UDMA - 6,500

Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks.

Steve...

 

[EvilDonnyboy]

do you have the dma box check in Device Manager?

 

[nortexoid]

enable DMA...

 

[brouillet]

Thanks for the tip! It did the trick.

 

[brouillet]

Thanks for the tip! It did the trick.

 

[frover2000]

also run disk defragmenter that definetly raise your performance..

 

[brouillet]

Thanks for the advice! It worked!

 

[bjc112]

where in device manager do you check DMA?

 

[bjc112]

where in device manager do you check DMA?

 

[bacillus]

<<where in device manager do you check DMA?>>

under disk drives>your hdd/properties/settings

 

[bjc112]

thanks