why does my new athlon xp run like shiot?! HELP!

[Uclagamer_99]

Hey guys I just built a system and it is running like a dog compared to my 2 year old P3-800EB/ ASUS CUSL2 System

Here's the specs:
Athlon XP 1800+
Gigabyte 7DX Mobo (AMD 761, AMD NB and VIA Southbridge) <--- I think this might be my problem the VIA 686B
Enermax 330Wat PSU
256MB Crucial PC2100 DDR (Maybe I don't have enough RAM? I was running 512 DRAM on my old box but I don't think i'd kill performance this much)

IBM 75GXP 30GB ULTRA ATA 100/7200RPM (My harddrive is running like a dog now under my new system, hashing like crazy...etc)
Visiontek Geforce 3 Ti200 Detonator 21.83
Soundblaster Audigy MP3+ (Is this conflicting with the VIA? I know the Live! has problems with the 686b southbridge)
Liteon CDR 12x10x32
Toshiba DVD/CD Drive

Running WinXP Professional

I've installed the newest AMD AGP drivers and haved tried various versions of the Via IDE Drivers that come with the 4in1's to no avail...it runs stable but the IDE performance is shot. I've also tried installing a PCI IDE Controller today, but that didn't seem to help much...still the same hard drive thrashing doing simple things like clicking on the start button...which never happened before.

Anyone out there with the AMD 760(761/686b) chipset help me out here? I don't understand why any of the big hardware discussion forums have ever mentioned any of these problems in the review...i've checked out viaarena and various via websites and there are tons of posts in regards to this certain VIA southbridge...if anyone has any pointers please post...i'm about ready to ditch anything VIA and pick up one of those sis 735 boards!

Thanks for reading!

 

[Shmorq]

It may be that you don't have DMA enabled for you drives...

Check your IDE controllers settings under Device Manager to make sure you have it enabled. Other than this, I don't see what your problem can me.

-Shmorq

 

[John]

I have an 8K7A (AMD 761/VIA) in my other PC running XP 100% stable. You don't need to install any chipset drivers.

[*]Follow Shmorq's advice

 

[Uclagamer_99]

Ultra DMA mode 5 is enabled and yeah i have tried a clean winxp format install without installing the VIA drivers and using the ones that come pre-installed with XP and still i get the same (Horrible) performance

 

[kyle1745]

Is this a fresh install of XP?

Also if so did XP have all the drivers for your devices or are you using legacy drivers for something.


I had a issue with a upgraded system that took about 5-10 mins to shutdown due to legacy drivers.


Kyle

 

[Adul]

clean isntall for one. Go through the bios to make sure you don't have any odd settings. Also XP does like memory, so you where better off with 512. But 256 Should get you by.

 

[Uclagamer_99]

pardon me...but i've clean freaking installed (formatted my HD) 3 times already in the past two days!

 

[JmanSanDiego]

Hmm..... How do you have your drives hooked up? As far as Primary/Secondary Master... Slave and such...

Also, I've read that IBM 75GXP actually has some problems with VIA chipsets (686b to be exact!). I know this sounds hard to believe but I've read it more than once.

Goto rajak's bios optimization page and verify all your BIOS settings are right

http://www.rojakpot.com/Speed_Demonz/BIOS_Guide/BIOS_Guide_Index.htm

Sounds to me like you may be having some sort of DMA problem going on.

Jon McGuffin

 

[OGHowie]

my hard drive is connected as the primary master, dvd drive as primary slave
cdr is the secondary master

i haven't heard anything about ibm 75gxp having any problems with via yet...but the hard drive does seem to be the problem here

 

[Uclagamer_99]

oops...haha i accidently posted under my brother's account...hehe OGHOWIE post was by me

 

[Shide1]

Make the dvd the secondary slave. I wouldn't have it on the same channel as the hard drive.

 

[Uclagamer_99]

hmm...tried isolating the hd on the the primary ide...and set the cd drives both on the secondary (i thought this was bad for cdr burning?)

no luck here...still getting choppy performance out of my hd

 

[kyle1745]

Have you tried a different HD, maybe this one is on the fritz.

Kyle

 

[DN]

IBM 75GXP <- I look at this and I immediately think it has to be a "bad hard drive".. As someone else suggested, swap in another hard drive and do the same type of install, ie.. clean.. If your problems go away, well.. ahem..

 

[foofoo]

i agreewith last 2 posts,
i've had bad hds really screw system performance. did you find any problems when you reformatted?
try downloading ibms drive fitness test
good luck

 

[MoleX]

I agree download DFT and run it, MY hd was working great but i just had a feeling, ran test and what do you know errors, RMA'd it, waiting for my replacement

it was 45.1GB 75GXP
hope to get back 60GB 60GXP

 

[Uclagamer_99]

my drive tests out fine using ibm drive fitness so hmm...

 

[flexy]

put NO slave on the first ide connector at all... (not if you want ATA 100/133)

do you run ATA 100 ? Is it a true IDE ata 100 cable ?

what about IRQs ? Any IRQs shared ?

Is your HD jumpered to "cable-select" ? Needed for ATA100, too !

run your system without dvd and all that stuff....jumper it to "cable-select"..being the only device on a ATA 100 ide cable...

if you still have bad perf (DMA enabled of course i assume !)...then it must be the HD

(IBM 75xp is **** anyway....)