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I find promise controller inferior cuz i saw lots of them with lower burst rate then highpoint (in average). And if you want to plug that many hd i suggest you buy a 3ware or adaptec card (these cards have dedicated DSP to do most of the work for you) at least.....since motherboard controllers(chipset, promise/highpoint onboard type) will not work very efficently with all channels full....these controllers is simply not designed to handle channels saturated with hd. As always SCSI is always preferred

I can't find any reason to delete the stuff inside this folder as most of the windows component is inside this dir. I'll suggest that u start by removing unused apps, games, mp3, movies first.... Oh and majority of .exe and .dll u've mention are in this dir as well.

So how do you guys clean the cdroms???

Nvidia card's video better then ATI's? that's rare.....

Which video card do you have? I have a Geforce 2 GTS w/ 43.35 and no problem here.

Well there are lots of server that support that feature, as it's a pretty standard function. The other two u should consider is guildFTPd and Serv-U. IIS has those functions but u need to use script to access the configurations....which is rather complicated......

Did you try to update the BIOS? And also which windows are u using?

So will all this happen if you remove the scsi card? also try install all amd chipset drivers. You can also try to update fireware for the dvd and cd writer as well.

For drivers, complete uninstall before up[censored] is highly recommended, as in a lot of cases overwriting a older version will cause problems. Also check if the plug is secure or clean. If the keyboard still have problem it's probably time to get a new one

Any highpoint/promise/adaptec controller generally do not support ATAPI devices, so it's recommended to connect them to motherboard IDE connector, and instead connect HD to promise. And why do you want your dvd to run in PIO? And also a BIOS update is highly recommended before you try anything else.

You can try to update BIOS and drivers first. Oh, and also remember to apply service pack 3 as well.

Bus mastering on all new boards will very likely to work properly (except if there's any compaibility with the BIOS/hardware). And you can try to optimize BIOS settings first, cuz it could rather make some difference on burst speed and cpu usage. Cuz on my old KA7-100 board i have to use WPCREDIT and WPCRSET from H-oda.com to set some of the chipset options. Those options are simply not available in the BIOS (it's very conservative). Before optimization, the burst speed and cpu usage is 63mb/s and 50% respectively. After optimization and highpoint bios and driver update, it's 83mb/s and 15-20%.....and with a lower cpu usage and higher burst speed, that system is definitely "snappier" then before. Comparing to older board, newer board are much "optimized". For example if i use WPCREDIT to check my KT3-ultra, those setting that will speed up the machine is all enabled. The default setting is much more aggressive. So it's unlikely that you have to use those two programs to tune the board, just changing the setting in the bios would be ok. Just make sure BIOS/driver is the latest and optimize BIOS and you sohuld be ok.

From the HDTach results, - Burst Speed - normal for all drive - Seq. read speed - normal for Maxtor 20GB and WD 120GB, low for WD 40GB - CPU Utilization - it's kinda too high....(take note that highpoint/promise controller's CPU Utilization will usually be higher then chipset IDE controller's figure) I have a KA7-100 mb with HPT-370, and different bios/driver combination will sometimes cause problems with low seq. read speed, low burst speed(interface speed), and/or high cpu utilization. It's usually preferred to set a higher performance device as master and slower device as slave. Before doing anything could u run hdtach with the following configuration: 1. Primary Master - WD 40GB Primary Slave - Maxtor 20GB 2. Primary Master - WD 40GB Primary Slave - empty (disconnect maxtor drive) This step is to verify: - If maxtor drive is slowing WD 40GB down - If there's any compatibility problems Some possible solutions for high cpu utilization: 1. install VIA Raid patch - this will disable pci read caching, which improves pci performance 2. install latest VIA 4-in-1 driver 3. optimize bios settings 4. update highpoint driver/bios Here's the instruction for using cbrom 1. copy bios image and highpoint bios file to cbrom dir 2. run dos prompt, change dir to cbrom 3. type: "cbrom xxxxx.bin(mb bios) /d, this will display the individual components of the bios 4. note that highpoint bios is a pci device 5. type: "cbrom xxxxx.bin(mb bios) /pci xxxxx.xxx(highpoint bios image), this will update highpoint bios component 6. type: "cbrom xxxxx.bin(mb bios) /d, check to make sure the bios is updated 7. u can update with the this bios image file (the file name will be going to be the same) and u can delete the temp files created(bios.rom, original.tmp)

First, PCMark itself is not good enough for benchmarking harddisk (actually a crap benchmark for everything). Use HDTach for best results. The 400 mark provided by pcmark doesn't indicate where the problem originates. Run the benchmark on all drives, and take a note on what the beginning/end speed is (for the graph above), and the burst speed. Please report the scores that you're getting and i could tell u what's causing the slow speed. What device do you have on the VIA IDE controller? Remember only one device can be active on a channel at a given moment. So from the HD info you provided, it's best to remove the maxtor drive, since it's the slowest drive that'll bog down the channel that it's on. A very important thing that you need to do is to make sure both highpoint driver and bios version is the same, otherwise it'll easily cause problems. Just in case the highpoint controller BIOS imbedded inside the abit bios files is always outdated, even with newest revisions. So what you need to do is find a tool called CBROM, which could be used for up[censored] the highpoint bios imbedded inside system bios file. If you can't find that tool on the net, i can send u the file and the instruction of how to use it.

This looks like faulty hardware.........either MB or CPU check if you've crack the core..........

Do you have Service Pack 1 installed? cuz i've this problem when i have lots of windows open and when i'm trying to close them all at onece the taskbar will hang for around 5 sec(b4 sp1) and now 0.5 sec(with sp1).

Hey, u know IDE controller card (highpoint, promise,....) don't really support ATAPI devices so my recommanded setup was to connect all cdroms to mb IDE controllers. Here's the recommended setup: mb IDE1: DVD-ROM mb IDE2: CD-RW promise IDE1:80GB promise IDE2:45GB Remember to set all device as master~~ And as always update to the latest BIOS and chipset driver~~ Also remember to get the most recent version of whatever cd burning program u're using~~

Also try 28.32 without whql, it works great. (since the whql one doesn't support TNT)