Damn this Windows ;(

[dtmunir]

ok its like this. ive been reading other stuff on this forum and others and have come to the conclusion that the hardware being sold by intel, seagate, samsung, kingston and all the other major vendors is of sub standard quality, primarily because they face little or no competitoon (here AMD has JUST started making a presence, and Apple isnt even heard of. same goes for the hard disk market, no western digital or ANYTHIGN else, only seagate)

I have the following specs, and comparing my performance in terms of boot time, disk access time, and other wise to people with similar configurations i find that there must be something TERRIBLY wrong with my hardware.

my specs:

-Intel P4 2.4 Ghz 533 Bus processor

-Asus P4p800 deluxe mboard (with all drivers on m/board cd installed except for the Application Accelarator for Raid which refuses to install ony my pc, but which i dont think matters because i dont HAVE raid)

- 512 PC3200 ( i think ) 333Mhz (definite) bus Samsung Ram

- a 40 GB Seagate 7200 Rpm drive. (model: st340016A)

my performace tests:

-xp pro boot time on a CLEAN installation: roughly 30 seconds from the time i press the power button

- xp pro boot time after installing all the usual apps (believe me i hv nothing facy tht stays in the memory and eats resources, or hardly any start up apps), and after 1 month of using: roughly 50-60 seconds

- file copy: from 1 partition to another, a 700 mb .avi file: ALMOST 4 minutes!!!!

I tried replacing my drive from my brothers pc which also has a 40 Gb but 5400 RPM drive (thinkin tht maybe mine was going bust) and the time taken was still almost same, just a lil more.

I also know tht i have experience such performance for ever, and it is nothing new. its just tht now ive come to realise tht other ppl with similar specs experience much better performance.

i dont understand this problems esp considerin tht i pay just as much for my hardware as most ppl in the US/Europe.

talk abt discrimination (just kiddin...

danish

[Alanoll]

intel, seagate, samsung, kingston and all the other major vendors is of sub standard quality, primarily because they face little or no competitoon

I sure hope you're talkin about in Europe.

Of all those brands, the ONLY ones I have in my computer, is Intel. And that's just hte chipset. Not the board.

333 = PC2700 I believe. Not sure though.

They don't sell substandard quality stuff. If they did, there would be numerous class action suits.

I RARELY see a seagate. The last one I saw was an old 2 gig. My drives are Maxtor, WD and a Hitachi. RAM is god knows. It's not kingston. Maybe PNY.

Samsung has never touched this computer.

Neither has Seagate.

I have:

P4 2.4 ghz 800 mhz bus

DFI 865PE board.

1 gig of PC3200.

[Jazz]

****... i dont believe seagate is that bad, cuz i know for sure that previously i had good transfer speeds... i dint it realise it much over a extended period, until recently i had to ONLY move a 700 mb avi to another partiton, and OH boy i had to wait 3 min's !! that really p***ed me off, and i thought that my hdd had gone bust..

So to reconfirm i booted into linux and tried copying the same file to the same location !! whoaaa, what do i see.. it takes only 35-39 secs...

Ok, thats why i'm more p***ed.. cuz i definately know its something to do with my softwares,drivers or the os itself and nothing to do with a brand..

Ohh infact the new seagate 7200.7 200Gb 8mb cache has selected as the best buy for price and performance at toms hardware.... so that proves it all, they claim it has a transfer rate of 64 mb/s and its even higher than the WD 10k rpm drive HOWZZ that !!

I'm planning to get that drive soon... its even got a 100gb per platter density, so its awesome...

http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/20040209/index.html check that out...

Bye,

Jazz

OK now please suggest me something, its the os i know for sure...

[Jazz]

how do i check dma- enabled.

i checked my primary IDE channel in device manager, it has dma mode on auto select, and current mode says Multi word DMA mode 2.

hmm ok first u see that in the ends of the cable... One pin slot must be closed..

check the cable area which u insert to your hdd connector...

One pin should be blocked, if u see all the 40 holes open , then its not a ata-100 cable, if not then buy a new ata-100 cable..

Ok if thats not the case, then remove any other device connected to the same channel, and goto bios and set the dma mode to either auto or udma 5, OK..

Other wise if even thats not the case then set the dma mode to 5 via ur application accelerator interface...

I think then u should have greately improved your hdd speed...

Let me know if this helps, mean time i try to figure out wass goin on with my hdd..

Bye,

Jazz