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| Thread ID: 39157 | 2003-10-29 03:39:00 | Slow file transfer and copying | jilla (4793) | Press F1 |
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| 187472 | 2003-10-29 03:39:00 | Recently we reformatted our computer and it has been working well except for the fact that copying files from one folder to another is very slow. Example -we are at present copying Diablo2 from one folder to another and it is going to take 30 minutes. While it is being copied the mouse becomes slow and unresponsive. It was not as slow as this before reformatting so we are wondering what is wrong. The computer is an AMD Thunderbird 1400, with 256 mb Ram, and a 40gb hard drive, a GF2 MX 400 graphics card, running Windows ME. |
jilla (4793) | ||
| 187473 | 2003-10-29 03:43:00 | have you installed the motherboard drivers?? also what sound card do you have? |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 187474 | 2003-10-29 03:59:00 | > have you installed the motherboard drivers?? apparently we haven't -will this be the answer to the problem? >what sound card do you have? The soundcard is a Sound Blaster Live player |
jilla (4793) | ||
| 187475 | 2003-10-29 04:05:00 | If tweak'e's suggestion doesn't help try: Look under Control Panel - System - Hardware - Device Manager - IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers - Primary IDE Channel - Right Click - Properties -Advanced Settings - Device 0 - Transfer Mode Set to "DMA if available" Same for Device 1. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 187476 | 2003-10-29 04:29:00 | Yeah sounds like DMA problems. Sometimes even setting the DMA wont fix the problem, as half the time with one of my pcs if you select "DMA if available" it will ignore it. If it does that delete the Primary IDE Channel then reboot. Once booted up it will then again ask you to reboot. Reboot again now this time the drive should be set on DMA. This is only really a temp fix because there will be a reason why the drive went back to PIO in the first place. This could be issues to do with the IDE controller, IDE cables, etc. It also depends on what OS your running if i remember right there was a bug in 98SE which even though the device was set to DMA it was still only using PIO |
Craig C (4780) | ||
| 187477 | 2003-10-29 05:28:00 | You should check in the BIOS as well to enable DMA on the drive if it isn't already. | PoWa (203) | ||
| 187478 | 2003-10-29 05:37:00 | Thanks for all your help and suggestions -we have installed the motherboard driver and that seems to have done the trick. | jilla (4793) | ||
| 187479 | 2003-10-29 07:29:00 | other thing to watch with win9x and soundblaster live is if you have sb16 emulation installed (you will see it in device manager). disable it or "allow lpt shareing". | tweak'e (174) | ||
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