Just built new system...need help

[Energenie]

Having problem with very slow transfer rates from CD Rom drive to hard drive. Takes about 80 minutes to transfer 600mb of data. Tried transfering same data between master and slave hard drive and it takes about 30 seconds. Also tried transfering same data on my Gateway PIII 500 with a DVD Drive and it takes about 8-10 minutes. Using Bios version 2.6, VIA 4 in 1 drivers version 4.32.Tried checking and unchecking DMA on both drives, tried switching from auto to PIO4 in bios, just doubled the time to 160 minutes, tried disabling UDMA in bios same outcome as PIO4. Tried unhooking secondary hard drive and secondary CD Rom, tried changing IDE cables from 80 wire ribbon to 40. Tried different CD Rom Drive. Tried unloading the VIA BUS master PCI IDE controller and replacing it with generic Microsoft drivers, didn't help.

I give up, I need some heeeeeeeelp 🙂

And to think I volunteered to build this for my dad :-(

System specs are as follows:
Windows 98 second edition ver 4.10.2222 A
AMD Athlon 1.4ghz 266mhz
MSI K7T Turbo
Leadtek Winfast Geforce 2 ultra 64mb
SB Live Value
256mb Crucial Ram
Plextor Plexwriter 12/10/32a CDR/CDRW
Memorex 48X CD Rom
US Robotics 56k modem
Win TV Card
Antec SX1040 Case 400w power supply

 

[rushr]

I had the same problem when I did a format and fresh install of win98SE using the Via 4.31 drivers.I uninstalled the 4.31's and went back to my good old 4.17's. I have used the 4.25's without any trouble also.

 

[Kartajan]

your previous thread that was in the technical area got moved to general hardware with responses intact...... To include mine...

 

[Splork]

Yeah, I had a bad expierence with anything higher than the Via 4.29a's in file transfer. I lost a clean install of win2k b/c them. That's prolly your problem. Check into that first!