I bought a T-Bird 800 and a KT7-RAID a few days ago. I have disabled the RAID controller in BIOS for now, but that doesn't seem to have any effect on my problem, which is:
Whenever I use my hard drives (copying, writing, reading, anything), the CPU usage goes through the roof. It's like using a parallell Zip-Drive; the mouse doesn't work, and everything is slowed down big-time. If I try to install a game, it takes forever, because there's not even CPU-time left for the CD-ROM (or so it seems).
I have tried installing the latest 4-in-1 drivers from VIA, and I have tried enabling/disabling DMA on all drives. Nothing seems to help. I have also tried both Windows 98SE and Windows ME, with identical results. This is getting frustrating; I spent a lot of money on this system, and it takes like 10 minutes to copy 100MB from one drive to another!
As the only new stuff in my system is CPU and motherboard, I assume the motherboard is causing the problems.
My system looks something like this:
AMD T-Bird 800(@8.0*100MHz)
ABit KT7-RAID (RAID disabled)
128MB PC-100 SDRAM
128MB PC-133 SDRAM (could mixing these RAM types be the problem...?)
18GB IBM ATA-66 HDD (Master on IDE1)
8.4GB Fujitsu ATA-66 HDD (Slave on IDE1)
9.1GB Seagate ATA-33 HDD (Master on IDE2)
Creative 2x/20x DVD-ROM (Slave on IDE2)
Adaptec AHA-2940AU SCSI Adapter PCI
Plextor 40Max CD-ROM SCSI
Teac CD-R55S 4x/12x CD-R SCSI
3DFx Voodoo3 3000 PCI
3COM 10/100 PCI
Creative DXR-2 MPEG decoder PCI
Creative SB AWE64 Gold ISA
Does anyone have a clue as to what might be wrong with my system? I sure hope so.....
Whenever I use my hard drives (copying, writing, reading, anything), the CPU usage goes through the roof. It's like using a parallell Zip-Drive; the mouse doesn't work, and everything is slowed down big-time. If I try to install a game, it takes forever, because there's not even CPU-time left for the CD-ROM (or so it seems).
I have tried installing the latest 4-in-1 drivers from VIA, and I have tried enabling/disabling DMA on all drives. Nothing seems to help. I have also tried both Windows 98SE and Windows ME, with identical results. This is getting frustrating; I spent a lot of money on this system, and it takes like 10 minutes to copy 100MB from one drive to another!
As the only new stuff in my system is CPU and motherboard, I assume the motherboard is causing the problems.
My system looks something like this:
AMD T-Bird 800(@8.0*100MHz)
ABit KT7-RAID (RAID disabled)
128MB PC-100 SDRAM
128MB PC-133 SDRAM (could mixing these RAM types be the problem...?)
18GB IBM ATA-66 HDD (Master on IDE1)
8.4GB Fujitsu ATA-66 HDD (Slave on IDE1)
9.1GB Seagate ATA-33 HDD (Master on IDE2)
Creative 2x/20x DVD-ROM (Slave on IDE2)
Adaptec AHA-2940AU SCSI Adapter PCI
Plextor 40Max CD-ROM SCSI
Teac CD-R55S 4x/12x CD-R SCSI
3DFx Voodoo3 3000 PCI
3COM 10/100 PCI
Creative DXR-2 MPEG decoder PCI
Creative SB AWE64 Gold ISA
Does anyone have a clue as to what might be wrong with my system? I sure hope so.....