Hey guys. I'm having a problem. I had to redo my system after a hard drive failure. So after reinstalling WinXP, and Office and DVD Decrypter program, now it's using 100% resources. And max read speed is 1.6x. Which before was only like 10-20% resources used, and up to 12-14x read.
What can i check? I reinstalled DVD Decrypter. I've double checked my BIOS settings, my IDE settings in WinXP. Nothing hard ware has changed other the the 250gig hard drive which replaces my older 80gig and 60gig.
I have a-
2.6ghz AMD Athlon
1gig PC3200 Ram
GF6600 Video card
ASUS A7VX Deluxe mb
Audigy 2NX Audio card.
DVD 16x DL DVD burner
CD-52x Burner (Both on Cable select mode with 80pin cable.)
Fresh install of WinXP.
Is it possible i have some settings wrong or something else i forgot to install yet? I don't remember doing anything (IE-cable settings or such) diffent since the new hard drive.
I have the 250 gig drive on it's own cable (PC133), and the 2 drives on the 80pin IDE cable, using cable select SLAVE/MASTER.
Thanks in advance for any clues/help/tips/solutions.
OK, here's my findings. I searched before asking, and notice how a lot of people were having problems with DMA not being enabled for some reason. I didn't think this was the problem, because when going under the System Properties, it showed DMA 5 and DMA 3 for the settings for both drives.
With that said, i noticed with the link provided, to use Nero Infotool and check. So i did (Which i had.) and at that time i noticed it reported my cd drive as DMA, and my DVD drive as DMA :None. A-HA!!!! Looked like WInXP wasn't reporting DMA correctly. SO i uninstalled the IDE driver, and rebooted. And NOW Nero Infotool reports it as being enabled.
So after trying DVD Decrypter again, it's now working fine, and stays at avg. 6-12% while using it in CPU resources, as well as 7.8-10x read speed instead of 98-100% CPU resources and 1.6x(Pinned) read speed.
Thank you SO much for the response. Again i did try to search 1st, and looked at DMA usign System Device Manager, and WInXP reported it being turned on, but Nero properly showed it in fact wasn't. Thanks to the link that even gave me the tip to use Nero Infotool(never actually even used that before last night, or even tried it.) i would've sworn that wasn't my problem, because of believing WinXP. Stupid microsoft. Just didn't want anyone to think i was lazy with not researching 1st is all. Haha. Thanks so much for that help, and link (most of all.)
