Weird stutter in Win2k after new harddrive

[FeNiX]

Hmm...getting weird random stutters in Win 2k...not just sound but visually also...such as video stuttering and mouse movement stutter, and they all occur randomly at the same time. This all happened after I installed a new HDD, a Western Digital 200GIG 8MB buffer drive, using the PCI promise ATA 100 card. I am thinking it might be a hardware issue with the PCI controller card...but even with some BIOS tweaking such as PCI Delay Transaction and Delay timing changes, I am still getting random stutters...

 

[ProviaFan]

DMA is enabled, right? I have a PCI ATA/66 "SIIG" controller card, and anything attached to it can not have DMA enabled, so whenever I use the drives attached thereon, I have stuttering. Updated drivers have not helped.

 

[QTPie]

win2K has problem with UDMA66 (and later). search for the fix.

 

[FeNiX]

Hmm...I have DMA enabled and I thought the bugs with that were fixed with SP2 or higher?

 

[FeNiX]

Quick update, I think it might be the fact that Win2k has the ability to share IRQs among a variety of hardware via APIC (not sure on the spelling), and my Video card, sound card, Network card, and just happens that my new IDE controller card is also on the same IRQ. Not really sure on a way to fix this except for the risky setup to disable APIC by switch computer types to standard in hardware manager...any clues for other solutions?

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: FeNiX
Quick update, I think it might be the fact that Win2k has the ability to share IRQs among a variety of hardware via APIC (not sure on the spelling), and my Video card, sound card, Network card, and just happens that my new IDE controller card is also on the same IRQ. Not really sure on a way to fix this except for the risky setup to disable APIC by switch computer types to standard in hardware manager...any clues for other solutions?

A game of musical PCI slots? (seriously)

 

[FeNiX]

Good god...it was the PCI bus...after updating my BIOS to be able accept the 200 gig drive, and removing the IDE controller card, everything now works fine without stutter...