Hi All,
I've done a full rebuild of my system (specs below) and the only new component has been to go from an ATI AIW 9800 SE to the Pro model.
All seems set up as before however now I'm getting stuttering issues such as the pointer stuttering across the screen occasionally and also poor audio playback with skipping of music etc. I've identified the cause as hard drive accessing at these times however this was never an issue before. Running an ATI diagnostic tool reports that I have HD issues and I should ensure DMA is enabled however both my hard drives are on my Promise Raid/ATA controller. My normal IDE channels have DMA enabled however the only devices on these channels are my CD ROMs. I have no such option under the ATA133 controller in device manager and so unable to rectify this option at the moment. I did change the BIOS settings to fail safe defaults and then back to Optimized but cannot see any individual settings that may cause this issue. Any ideas??
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Windows XP Pro SP2
AMD Athlon XP 2400+
Gigabyte 7DXR+
1Gb PC2100
Pioneer DVD Rom - IDE0
Plextor CD-RW - IDE1
Maxtor 7200rpm 8MB 120Gb - ATA133 1 (promise controller)
IBM Deskstar 7200rpm 2MB 46Gb - ATA133 2 (promise controller)
ATI All In Wonder 9800 Pro 128mb
Videologic Sonicfury
I've done a full rebuild of my system (specs below) and the only new component has been to go from an ATI AIW 9800 SE to the Pro model.
All seems set up as before however now I'm getting stuttering issues such as the pointer stuttering across the screen occasionally and also poor audio playback with skipping of music etc. I've identified the cause as hard drive accessing at these times however this was never an issue before. Running an ATI diagnostic tool reports that I have HD issues and I should ensure DMA is enabled however both my hard drives are on my Promise Raid/ATA controller. My normal IDE channels have DMA enabled however the only devices on these channels are my CD ROMs. I have no such option under the ATA133 controller in device manager and so unable to rectify this option at the moment. I did change the BIOS settings to fail safe defaults and then back to Optimized but cannot see any individual settings that may cause this issue. Any ideas??
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Windows XP Pro SP2
AMD Athlon XP 2400+
Gigabyte 7DXR+
1Gb PC2100
Pioneer DVD Rom - IDE0
Plextor CD-RW - IDE1
Maxtor 7200rpm 8MB 120Gb - ATA133 1 (promise controller)
IBM Deskstar 7200rpm 2MB 46Gb - ATA133 2 (promise controller)
ATI All In Wonder 9800 Pro 128mb
Videologic Sonicfury