What on God's green earth is wrong with my mobo?!

[agent]

I have been transferring large files from my CD Rom drives to my HD and I noticed the following quirk. When the CD Rom drive is on the mobo IDE controller the performance is half then when it is on the PCI IDE controller. What gives?

I found this out by transferring a 700MB file from the mobo CDRom and it takes 9 min. The same file from the PCI CDRom takes 5 min. When I switch the two drives the performance remains the same on each controller (9min on the mobo, and 5min on the PCI). So same CDRom drives but different results when they are moved between the PCI and the mobo controller. Here is my setup.

OS: Win2k, sp4
MOBO: Gigabyte 7VTXE
Chipset: VIA KT266A North, VIA VT8233 South
HD: WD 1200JB (120GB, 8MB Buffer)
CDDrives: Plextor 24/10/40A, Pioneer 104s
PCI IDE: Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 PCI Adapter

Thanks!

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[khha4113]

Is your VIA IDE channels (mobo's controller) DMA enabled?
Did you put both of them, HD and CD on the same IDE cable or they are separated?

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[pIII_Man]

do you have the latest mobo drivers installed...vias are notorious for having bad drivers...

3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz...

 

[agent]

1. Yes they are DMA enabled. UDMA.
2. Every device is on a separate channel / cable.

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[agent]

PIII, I installed the latest 4in1. Do you suggest anything else?

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[pIII_Man]

latest bios?

3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz...

 

[agent]

Ok, updated to the latest (f9), but now my mouse doesn't work. I'm not too familiar with these dual bioses. Is there something in the bios that would cause my mouse to stop working? It doesn't show up in Device Manager. Everything else loaded ok and my bios shows f9 now.

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[pIII_Man]

sounds like this is a windows problem...try a diffrent mouse or reinstall the mouse drivers...if your manufacturer does not have any drivers...go to logitech's webpage they have some generic mouse drivers...

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3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz...

 

[agent]

PIII_man, turned out to be a bios problem with the f9. When I installed Win2k from scratch it could not detect the mouse. So I reverted back to f4 and the mouse came back. What is the problem with the f9 bios flash?

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[pIII_Man]

beats me is there an f8 or a newer beta bios?

BTW you are experiencing via at its best...screwing up drivers and compatability...thats why they normally have such a bad name around thg...

3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz...

 

[pIII_Man]

looking at your setup i am a bit confused...do you have a pci riser card that you are using as an ide controllor?

I would plug the hard drive into the ide controlor on your mobo if it has support for drives that large...also if the drive is on its own channel try to remove the jumper from the back of the drive...

3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz...