Oh. My. God.

[FreakyOCR]

This is absolutly incredible. I just sold my Abit KT7-Raid, and picked up "The best socket a mobo" EDIT:MSI K7T Pro-2A (According to Anandtech, and a few others) And it seems to be very slow accessing the harddrive. This was very disturbing. It was working fine on my KT7...

My HD is an IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30GB
I just built another, it has a 46GB 75GXP. Same problem.

SEE IT FOR YOURSELF

My suspicion turned out to be true. BIG PROBLEM.
WHY IS IT DOING THIS???

HELP!!!


EDIT: So we figured it out. Needed the new beta via 4-in-1's. She's a beaut now... Gratzi

 

[Grey]

Are you installing the right drivers? Enabled DMA, Bus mastering drivers? blah blah

 

[FreakyOCR]

Hey, how do I tell?? Jeez I sound like a newbie, but I seriously have nto had to deal with that before.

 

[damac]

tell me how to get that program your using and I'll try it on my system. My new system is nice clean and stable and Im using the same motherboard and hard drive.

 

[FreakyOCR]

It's Sisoft Sandra. I think you have to buy it. They may have a trial version... Do a google search for sisoft sandra

 

[FreakyOCR]

New 4-in-1s installed, new bios, everything is enabled. Bootup reports it ata-100 lba..... I don't have a clue why it is slow..... and boy is it slow.... no match for my 1.1GHz Tbird....

 

[LXi]

Yea... you need to enable Ultra DMA Mode 5, install 4-in-1 4.26/27 beta to enable ATA100.

 

[FreakyOCR]

Ok where do I get beat 4-in-1's??

 

[rominl]

www.viahardware.com

 

[FreakyOCR]

YES!!!!! Well that did it. I'm assuming that the new via southbridge was not yet supported in the current non-beta drivers.
NOW LOOK!!!!!!

 

[FreakyOCR]

Thanks Peeps!

 

[rominl]

The problem you had before is probably due to the lack of support of ata100 rom VIA. the 4.26 and 4.27 solved the problem I guess. I am glad that you have a happy machine now