We re-formatted the hard drive and re-installed Windows. Now graphics/video performance has slowed way down.
The System:
Dell Dim.4300 / P4 1.6 GHz /100MHz fsb / 512MB PC133 SDRAM / WindowsME / Gainward GF4 Ti4200 128MB (Golden Sample)
Some test results: 3D Mark 2001SE - before format/re-inst. : 6620. After: 4250. A serious drop in performance !
Other result: PCPitstop.com - Before: Video test-172mb/sec. After: Video test-120mb/sec. Again a big drop.
Side issue: after format/re-inst. PCPitstop.com showed slow hard drive performance in Uncached Test. On their advice, looked up hard drive/controller DMA setting and found it was disabled. Placed check mark in DMA box, re-booted and re-tested. Hard drive then tested very good, no problems.
Question: What should we do ? Is there a check-box for DMA specially for the graphics card ? What about "side-band addressing" ? Someone said that should be OFF with a good graphics card, but I don't know how or where to look, etc.
Regards
The System:
Dell Dim.4300 / P4 1.6 GHz /100MHz fsb / 512MB PC133 SDRAM / WindowsME / Gainward GF4 Ti4200 128MB (Golden Sample)
Some test results: 3D Mark 2001SE - before format/re-inst. : 6620. After: 4250. A serious drop in performance !
Other result: PCPitstop.com - Before: Video test-172mb/sec. After: Video test-120mb/sec. Again a big drop.
Side issue: after format/re-inst. PCPitstop.com showed slow hard drive performance in Uncached Test. On their advice, looked up hard drive/controller DMA setting and found it was disabled. Placed check mark in DMA box, re-booted and re-tested. Hard drive then tested very good, no problems.
Question: What should we do ? Is there a check-box for DMA specially for the graphics card ? What about "side-band addressing" ? Someone said that should be OFF with a good graphics card, but I don't know how or where to look, etc.
Regards