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CD/DVD Drive slowing down Windows 2000

by unPwnNtent Jun 17, 2007 2:53AM PDT

I just recently bought a Seagate Barracuda Hard Drive and installed it into my computer with no hitches whatsoever.
I decided to revert back to Windows 2000 Professional from Windows XP because it just seemed that XP was too bloated in my opinion. I like my OS' clean and bare to the bone ^^.

Anyhow, I have most of my programs running and I'm trying to install my games.

The problem here is that whenever the CD/DVD Drive is in use, my computer would become sluggish and I can hardly play any of my mp3 files. Everything would just completely lag.

I haven't had this problem with XP, but I supposed that installing the latest firmware wouldn't hurt, but instead, everything remained the same.

I benchmarked the drive using Nero CD-DVD Speed and the maximum Read Speed it can approach is 16x, when it should be 52x...

I'm currently thinking of installing XP's CD/DVD-ROM Driver into my Windows 2000 because I'm guessing it's a driver problem...

CPU: 939 Athlon +3700
RAM: 2GB OCZ Platinum Dual-Channel
Hard Drives: Western Digital 40GB IDE (It was like, 6 years old...)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB Ultra/ATA-100 (Now that's what I'm talkin about)
CD Drive: LG CD Writer GCE-8526B
CD/DVD/DVDRAM Writer: LG Electronics HL-DT-ST GSA-H22L <-- THE PROBLEM
OS: Windows 2000 Professional

Any help would be most appreciated x____x
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Usually the DMA issue.
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Jun 17, 2007 3:02AM PDT

I read nothing about your choice of motherboard drivers or if you just let Microsoft pick them. So that's one item.

The next is if the channel is in some reduced DMA or just PIO mode. Your post didn't share what you have set for the IDE MODE.

Bob

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oops
by unPwnNtent Jun 17, 2007 3:11AM PDT

I'm sorry, my mobo is an ASRock 939-DualSATA2 and I've flashed to the latest BIOS. It supports DMA and I'm sure it's enabled. I can go check again.

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And Windows... as installed by MS...
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Jun 17, 2007 3:13AM PDT

Will kick it to PIO without drivers or "your help." I take it that you've never heard of this but when I see people running Windows 2000 Professional I might (wrongly?) guess they have learned about drivers years ago.

Bob

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