VIA IDE Drivers that DON'T FUBAR my hard drive performance?!

Uclagamer_99

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huh...i don't understand this, under windows xp all my disk drives (hard, cd-r, dvd) all have the following:


"name of device" SCSI disk device

is this normal or is there something wrong with my setup...i've been noticing that my hard drive seems to have been acting up after i formatted and did a clean install of winxp

I have a 761 AMD mobo...all i need is the AMD AGP and the VIA IDE drivers right? i get 3dmark scores that look about right for my system but games that didn't lag before seem to stutter a lot now...i think it's the hard drive but i'm not sure (i have a GF3Ti200) any help is very much appreciated!!!

my system seems to be running a lot slower than my old P3-800 and it's an Athlon XP 1800+!!! (although it might have to do with me only having 256 DDR versus the 512 SDRAM in my OG box) there is a lot of hard disk thrashing going on...i thought it might be my pagefile settings but adjusting those made little or no difference!
 

Pabster

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Some earlier 4-in-1 "fixes" and the latest VIA IDE XP "driver" do that. VIA is suck.

Bad IDE performance isn't uncommon with VIA-based boards. You might consider either ditching the board, or putting the drives on an add-in PCI controller card.
 

Uclagamer_99

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damn, anyone suggest any via ide drivers that don't Fubar my hard drive? this really sucks...for a second i thought it was my winxp install...so i did about three formats! arrgh...does this apply to the newer VIA boards (KT266A)?

I'm using a Gigabyte 7DX (AMD 761 Chipstet)
 

Uclagamer_99

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also would you guys suggest me not installing those via drivers? would my troubles go away if i uninstalled this crap?!
 

NesuD

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don't install any via ide drivers if you are using XP. It has built in via ide drivers already and they seem to be as good as any genuine via drivers and more reliable. I personally run my hard drives on a promise controller and leave the onboard ide to the cd drives.