I have an Asus CUV4X motherboard I thought would be real fast coupled with an Intel Pentium3-933. Not so. For some reason...
o my 24X Mitsumi CD-ROM runs at only 4X
o my SCSI card and HD have very disappointing performance
o Win2K boot stops for long periods during boot and I'd like to know what it's waiting for.
My system has the 24X CD-ROM and a Zip on the IDE chain, but nothing else because the Hard Drive is SCSI, i.e., nothing on the Primary channel. Could this be defeating DMA causing the CD-ROM to run so slowly?
With a board-full of PCI cards, is it possible their arrangement or something else prevents the Bus from working optimally? For that matter, how does one manage DMA, Bus-Mastering, and other hardware performance features? Is there some method to be sure the hardware is performing the best it can?
o my 24X Mitsumi CD-ROM runs at only 4X
o my SCSI card and HD have very disappointing performance
o Win2K boot stops for long periods during boot and I'd like to know what it's waiting for.
My system has the 24X CD-ROM and a Zip on the IDE chain, but nothing else because the Hard Drive is SCSI, i.e., nothing on the Primary channel. Could this be defeating DMA causing the CD-ROM to run so slowly?
With a board-full of PCI cards, is it possible their arrangement or something else prevents the Bus from working optimally? For that matter, how does one manage DMA, Bus-Mastering, and other hardware performance features? Is there some method to be sure the hardware is performing the best it can?
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