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Extremely slow disc reads and writes in Windows XP
Satrow, All IDE drives report their proper UDMA modes. None are running PIO. CPU is not being used. BIOS drive and bus settings are all on auto. All the IDE drives are the same as far as DMA modes and all. The only drive that is slower is the cdrom. So I have tested with nothing but the...- Timmot
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Extremely slow disc reads and writes in Windows XP
satrow, After a clean install of XP, with default included drivers - Same results. After updating drivers from Dell - Same results. After adding Intel Accelerator - (You guessed it) Same results. Indexing is off. If available to turn off, Write back caching has been tried both on and off...- Timmot
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Extremely slow disc reads and writes in Windows XP
By the way. I forgot to mention that there is absolutely no change whether or not I shut down any/all background services/apps. Thanks- Timmot
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Extremely slow disc reads and writes in Windows XP
Read and write speeds with all disc drives are extremely slow - IDE, SCSI, Ext. 1394 Everything is detected correctly. All the SCSI devices sync @ 160. Have done tests with nothing else but only one single ATA drive attached (the 200Gig Seagate) and get the same results. No matter the...- Timmot
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