Moving Data from CDrom drive turns computer into SLUDGE!

[slinkeepie]

Hey guys,

Ive got a PIII 744mhz, with 512 Ram here, just a storage machine basically. Ive got two decent 7200rpm maxtors on one IDE channel, and a 50 something-x cdwriter on the other IDE channel. When I move data around on this computer, or when i copy something to or from it over the network, IT IS INCREDIBLY SLOW! I thought it might be my NIC or network setup, but the same things happens when i copy data to a local harddrive from my local cd-rom. It just seems like it hates moving data around, when i try it, i can barely move the mouse around. Anyone know what this could be?

I checked and I DO have DMA turned on for the IDE channels.

 

[thraxes]

What mainboard are you using? What OS?

If its a i815 then try downloading and installing the Intel Application Accelerator Pack.

 

[slinkeepie]

I am in Windows XP, the mainboard it an old (2001) ASUS P3BX but no its not one of those i815 ones. i believe it was based on the 440BX chipset. does that help any?

 

[Dug]

Check your task manager- processes. See which one is taking all the cpu cycles.

 

[thorin]

Do you have DMA enabled on the CDROM and the IDE controller/channel the CDROM is on?
Is the CDROM running in PIO mode?

Thorin

 

[sniperruff]

Originally posted by: thorin
Do you have DMA enabled on the CDROM and the IDE controller/channel the CDROM is on?
Is the CDROM running in PIO mode?

Thorin

thorin is right. i have a cd-rom in PIO and it freezes for 20 seconds when i put in a cd and it starts auto-play

 

[slinkeepie]

weird, i thought i had checked both channels, but apparantly the cdrom one was in PIO for some reason....odd.
it seems to maybe have improved a little bit, mouse still chops up a bit and windows minimize/maximize really slow. but a bit more usable maybe? if it helped, thanks for reminding me to check both channels. the cdrom is on its own channel :]