Gladiator 0 Posted January 30, 2001 I am getting REALLY bad disk performance with this setup in Win2k. My HDD is constantly getting thrashed, and everything is much more sluggish than expected. Anybody got this working on a decent performance level? ------------------ Share this post Link to post
Gladiator 0 Posted January 30, 2001 Sys specs below. I should be running it quite smoothly, don't you agree? BTW, my Sandra HDD scores are like 10000 now, in Win98se they are over 24,000. ------------------ PIII 700e @ 1021mhz Asus CUSL2 256MB PC133 IBM 75GXP 30.0GB ATA100/7200RPM Geforce 2 GTS Pro Share this post Link to post
anak1 0 Posted January 30, 2001 I believe you have to manually enable ATA 66 in Win2K. Some registry setting, i dont remember which. ATA 100 support is coming in SP2 I believe. Share this post Link to post
Gladiator 0 Posted January 30, 2001 Yes, I've tried that, as well as using some of the tweak guides from various websites, all to no avail. Seems strange to me because I used to have Win2k running on a 5400rpm Maxtor drive awhile back (albeit not on this system) and it ran extremely smooth. ------------------ PIII 700e @ 1021mhz Asus CUSL2 256MB PC133 IBM 75GXP 30.0GB ATA100/7200RPM Geforce 2 GTS Pro Share this post Link to post
BladeRunner 0 Posted January 30, 2001 My CUSL-2 has just been sent back for repair Once I get it back I will run some tests again and see the benchmark scores, however I must admit I had never noticed any bad performance with this board. Share this post Link to post
lexluthor 0 Posted January 30, 2001 whats the pagefile min/max set to? make sure they are both set to the same setting. changing pagefile size on the fly is horridly slow. u have the same system memory i do so u can set your pagefile to cache only when nessesary HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management and set this dword to DisablePagingExecutive 1 war Share this post Link to post
zalem 0 Posted January 30, 2001 Try a standard ata 33 ide cable instaed of the ata 100 ide cable, since win2k doesnt support ata 100 until sp2. Or call microsoft to get the pre-sp2 hotfix for ata100 support Share this post Link to post
Gladiator 0 Posted February 1, 2001 Any other ideas? I'm sure there are a lot of people running this combo. ------------------ PIII 700e @ 1021mhz Asus CUSL2 256MB PC133 IBM 75GXP 30.0GB ATA100/7200RPM Geforce 2 GTS Pro Share this post Link to post
clutch 1 Posted February 1, 2001 OK, dumb question. Are you running Win2K Pro, Server, or Adv. Server? Also, "findfast" isn't running by chance is it? ------------------ Regards, clutch Share this post Link to post
Gladiator 0 Posted February 2, 2001 It's Win2k pro, and no, findfast is not running. Share this post Link to post