Just installed win2k SP2.. but still at ATA33??! *** RESOLVED ***

[vohwink1]

Ok, here's my rig.

t-bird 900
abit kt7-raid (sorta regretting this as of late)
256mb micron ram
geforce2 GTS 64mb
Maxtor 30gig ata100/7200rpm drive

So, being the dummy that I am, I installed win2k on my regular IDE channel. So, when I tried to switch to ata100, I got a blue screen on boot concerning my hpt.sys drivers.

Anywho.. I just left them on the ata66 IDE, cuz I figured that would be great enough. Then I find out win2k doesn't support ata66 initially.. weird. So, I read up, and I do the registry hack. Still nothing. In HDtach still getting 30-32mb/s burst HD speed. So, at this point I have nothing to lose anyway, so I install SP2 beta. Reboot, works like a charm. So, check my HD, it's reporting UDMA still. So I run HDtach again.. same speeds. WTF?

I checked, and my registry hacks are still in place. Should they be removed for the SP to take effect? I don't understand. I guess I can try hooking back up to ata100 again and see if it will boot.. but if anyone has any light to shed on this subject, I'd appreciate it much. Thanks.

 

[yo2tup]

you still need to apply the ata100 hotfix for beta sp2

 

[vohwink1]

But, what if I'm only using ata66 and not ata100? Does it still apply?

 

[vohwink1]

Well yo2tup, I didn't get to it lastnight, but this morning I went ahead and tried to run the hotfix. It wouldn't install and gave me a message similar to this:

This hotfix is for versions of service pack 1 or earlier. You currently have SP2 beta.. etc etc...

Is there a DIFFERENT hotfix for SP2 that I need? Still a bit confused.

I can get my HD up to about ata66 speeds by cranking up my FSB, but heh, I'd rather not

 

[vohwink1]

Well, after all that crap I've went to, I figured I had nothing more to lose, so I disabled ACPI from within windows. After about 6 reboots, reinstalling drivers for most of my hardware, I ran a benchmark and now getting way above par socres for my HD.

Also, it freed up a lot of IRQ's, but after I removed ACPI my via DMA IDE Channels in device manager were not working because windows reinstalled the standard IDE controllers which used the same resources. So I just removed the via ones.. and its running NICE now