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Win2k + CUSL2 performance

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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?

 

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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.

 

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PIII 700e @ 1021mhz

Asus CUSL2

256MB PC133

IBM 75GXP 30.0GB ATA100/7200RPM

Geforce 2 GTS Pro

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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.

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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.

 

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PIII 700e @ 1021mhz

Asus CUSL2

256MB PC133

IBM 75GXP 30.0GB ATA100/7200RPM

Geforce 2 GTS Pro

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My CUSL-2 has just been sent back for repair frown

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.

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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

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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

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Any other ideas? I'm sure there are a lot of people running this combo.

 

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PIII 700e @ 1021mhz

Asus CUSL2

256MB PC133

IBM 75GXP 30.0GB ATA100/7200RPM

Geforce 2 GTS Pro

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OK, dumb question. Are you running Win2K Pro, Server, or Adv. Server? Also, "findfast" isn't running by chance is it?

 

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Regards,

 

clutch

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