ASUS A7N8X 2.0 IDE sucks!

[kartel]

Anyone know what the slow performance is caused by on XP ?

I got Brand-new XP pro SP2 and the IDE drivers are garbage either from MS or Nvidia.

Very slow movement, but on 98se, it is great.

[tain]

I have the same board+cpu and I use nvidia's drivers on Win2000. Performance is great.

Sorry, no experience with XP.

[Andromeda43]

WELL, IDE sucks no matter where you use it and regardless of the OS.

But, just for your information, XP drives the heck out of a hard drive, unlike 98.

Getting the Kernal up off of the HD and installed in ram will add considerably to your XP systems performance.

There's a registry tweak for that.

See my registry tweaks on My Webpage

Then keeping all the crap'files off of your HD and doing a Defrag on a regular (weekly, not Weakly) maintenance schedule will go a long ways toward keeping your PC running in top form.

Then if you really want to remove the biggest bottleneck in your system dump that IDE drive (or reduce it to a backup drive) and install a SATA drive.

No SATA port on your mobo?.....not to worry. Both Manhattan and Promise make a real nice little PCI card that will drive two SATA hard drives. I have several of them. They work great.

You can even use reverse technology to run an IDE drive off of the SATA controller card, using a little IDE to SATA dongle on the IDE drive. It will run the old IDE drive at almost SATA speeds. Over 1000 mbpm transfer rates. I wouldn't have believed it had I not done it on my own PC.

cheers!

Andromeda43 B)

[kartel]

I had a similar problem with my VIA KT600 chipset but I used VIA IDE Accelerator Driver but ASUS or NVIDIA has no such driver.

I almost wish I kept the KT6V-LSR I sold when I got the A7N8X, which was "supposed" to be better.