Need some help

[yr100006]

Howdy

This is my first time posting here and just wanted to say hello and get some friendly advice.

I formated my machine and updated everything and I am getting slugish performance not only with applications but also games aswell (hl2/bf2).

Here is what I am runing

480watt PSU
Amd Athlon64 3200+ Socket 939
Asus A8V Deluxe Runing bios 1014(most recent)
36gig WD Raptor drive (runing via raid driver)
PNY 6800GT(AGP)
1GIG PQI Turbo Memory (runing dual channel in slot 1 and 3)

Here is what I have enabled/disabled in my bios for agp.
Search for MDA Resources: Yes
VLINK 8X Supported: Enabled
AGP MODE: AGP 8x
AGP Fastwite: Disabled
Graphic Aperture size: 128mb
AGP 3.0 Calibration: Disabled
DBI Output for agp trans: Disabled


Now I have my sata drive on ch_1 and in bios it lists it as VIA VT6420 1st HDD and when I boot up it says VIA VT8237.

I went and made sure I had the latest via chipset drivers and most recent bios and direct X and NVIDIA drivers and I am still getting low performance.

I also tryd to even use my Promise SATA and still got low performance, my applications tend to lag when I open them and in games like css I get this spike kinda like it my connection but not.

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[yaleblor]

i believe raid is a functionn ment for 2 drives or more i dont think it will work with only 1,in effect you would be either merroring the drive to it self or swapping files to it self here's a link to a guy who's the serious raid guru http://www.lvcoyote.com/