Sh!tty HD performance. Help!!

[huggis]

So i just build up my new system as follows:

Duron 700 @ 850 (multiplier*8.5)
MSI K7T Pro 2A
192 Mb ram
IBM 75GXP 15 Gb
Geforce DDR (Creative)
SBLive
Dlink NIC
Asuscom ISDN Adapter

OS W2k pro sp1

First thing i noticed was upon installing the OS, it took longer time than it used to do on my second system (Abit BX 2.0 board PIII600 IBM 75GXP). Maybe because it crashed once during the installation procedure and checkdisk automatically ran upon reboot. Secondly i got a feeling of bad HD performance during other software installations, it definitively took longer time to install all the software than it usually do! The first thing i did when the OS was installed was to install the VIA 4-1 4.26 driver, so i have the VIA busmaster installed and verified trough the device manager.

I know people have reported some problems with 4.26 i.e devices shows up as scsi devices and the same goes for me; the cd-rom and hd is reported as scsi devices. Anyway the most common opinion seems to be that the performance is good... Finally i installed Sisoft 2001 and ran the HD benchmark and that benchmark confirmed what i suspected:Q

I was getting 1807 points! This is to be compared with approx. 13000 points for an normal ATA 66 HD according to Sisoft And furthermore; the benchmark itself took ~15 min. to perform...

So finally, what the heck is wrong here??? Nothing else is slow except HD performance. QII-III just flyes away in fps and i´m more than pleased with that performance but i do really have to speed up my HD!
TIA!

 

[todays]

Yeah, something is wrong. I have a KT7 with 75GXP and I get a 22000 Sandra score for a single drive. Did you make sure it was in DMA mode on the controller. Sometimes you have to go back and set it manually. And yes my T-Bird takes longer to boot than my BX Celeron 366@550Mhz. But the T-Bird kicks it tail in everything else. Is the drive installed on the proper cable? UDMA/66 as master with nothing else slower on the same cable. The UDMA/66 cables are cable select also. So you can either set your drive to master or to cable select when running using one of these.

 

[Pariah]

Don't use the VIA drivers, use the standard MS drivers. Make sure DMA is enabled under the individual IDE channel properties. Also, there is no native win2k support for anything above UDMA33.

 

[robg1701]

I realise this wont solve your problem, as the solution is an *ntel affair, but i thought it might be useful anyway.
Check the IBM view HERE

 

[huggis]

todays
Thanks for your input (and all yuo others of course!)! And yes, my controller is working in UDMA mode according to the DMA tool bundled in the 4-1 patch. Secondly, my drive is correctly set up as single master with an 80 pin cable connected with the blue end to the mobo and the other black end to my drive. So that isn´t the problem What busmaster driver are you using?