SB Live Value, W2K, SP2, stutter on downloads?

[Jesta]

I have a problem. Was listening to some MP3's with winamp and went to download something and the MP3 began stuttering. System specs are as follows:

P3-500
generic BX motherboard
Matrox Mil 2 32mb
SBLive Value
128mb pc100

Never had this prob in 98 or ME. Is it just too much for this computer to run 2K. I heard there was a prob with the sblive drivers before SP2, but thought it was resolved. Anyway, running SP2 and the Drivers only from sblive.com. All help is apprecieated. Thanks.

 

[rowcroft]

Could very well be a memory constraint, 128MB isn't very much for W2K Pro- You'll apprecaite that 6400- big difference!

Rowcroft

 

[zephyrprime]

Do you have hard drive dma enabled.

 

[Jesta]

Hmm, no I do not. How do you enable it in 2K? not under device manager like in 98.

 

[NateSLC]

Go through Device Manager, but the DMA settings are not on the Drive properties like Win9x. Find your IDE controllers in the Device Manager and the settings should be there.

 

[Jesta]

ok, yes, DMA is enabled on all the drives, so am I stuck merely because of the amount of ram? should the P3-500 be enough to run 2k if it has enough ram, off to look for memory. thanks again.