Zip 250 slows system to crawl

[Energenie]

I've got a Zip 250 on my work computer for backing up stuff and everytime I run the backup it slows everything to a crawl, mouse moves jerky, even the windows sound files play chopped up. Anyone have any idea why this is? I tried to look at the properties for the Zip drive to see if there is a DMA setting or something but didn't have any luck, below are the system specs as shown in System information, thanks much.

System Information report written at: 03/20/2002 11:07:05 AM
[System Summary]

Item Value
OS Name Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Version 5.0.2195 Service Pack 2 Build 2195
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name SERVER
System Manufacturer Equus Computer Systems
System Model Nobilis
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 1 Stepping 2 GenuineIntel ~1794 Mhz
BIOS Version 10/24/01
Windows Directory C:\WINNT
System Directory C:\WINNT\System32
Boot Device \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1
Locale United States
User Name SERVER\Sandstrom
Time Zone Central Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 1,047,856 KB
Available Physical Memory 808,508 KB
Total Virtual Memory 3,570,660 KB
Available Virtual Memory 3,178,016 KB
Page File Space 2,522,804 KB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

 

[Sipper]

I know it shouldn't matter, but in my experience it sometimes does...Are the Boot disk (or whatever hard disk your copying from) share the same IDE channel as the Zip disk? Is it even an IDE Zip disk? If you can, tell us how the devices are set up on the motherboard. For example, Primary master = hard drive, primary slave = cd-rom or zip disk, secondary master = yada yada...

If it IS an IDE zip disk, then see if you cantake it off the primary and place it on the secondary with the CD-ROM. If it's USB, you might try and see if you can find a BIOS update for your motherboard, all driver patches from Microsoft, as well as defragging your harddrive. If you've done all this, thenI dunno...good luck though, I know how annoying it is.

 

[SinNisTeR]

wow, thats a lot of virtual memory.. *whistles*

check the iomega website. they have a patch that is supposed to clear this up. im in a hurry now and will post later if you cant find it.