How to enable UDMA on NT4 on a K6-x system
This is a discussion about How to enable UDMA on NT4 on a K6-x system in the Windows Hardware category; I have NT4 installed on my system (AMD K6-3 400Mhz, 128Mb RAM, SOYO 5EHM mobo (VIA MVP3 chipset) Quantum Fireball EL 7. 6Gb has UDMA support)and I wonder if NT4 would benefit from the VIA 4in1 drivers (to enable UDMA33) for the VIA MVP3 chipset.
I have NT4 installed on my system (AMD K6-3 400Mhz, 128Mb RAM, SOYO 5EHM mobo (VIA MVP3 chipset) Quantum Fireball EL 7.6Gb has UDMA support)and I wonder if NT4 would benefit from the VIA 4in1 drivers (to enable UDMA33) for the VIA MVP3 chipset. I didnt find anything about NT on the VIA site's FAQ that's why I'm asking this. I'm running a dualboot setup of Win98/NT4.0
On the Win98 setup the 4in1 drivers are installed, the issues it fixes and the increase in performance are very noticeable.
But I'm hesitating about installing the 4in1 (the busmaster drivers) drivers on NT4.0 since there's no documentation about it. I would like to hear your advice about this matter and if any of you had any similar experiences with this.
My question is, should I install the busmaster drivers from the 4in1 package (that enables UDMA)or should I install the dmacheck.exe program from Microsoft that also enables UDMA. http://support.microsoft.com/download/support/mslfiles/Dmachcki.exe
The reason about why I'm asking you all this is because an article I read about optimizing NT4. http://www.arstechnica.com/tweak/nt/udma.html
I also found this: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q198/1/27.ASP?LNG=ENG&SA=ALLKB&FR=0
Please help me on this.
On the Win98 setup the 4in1 drivers are installed, the issues it fixes and the increase in performance are very noticeable.
But I'm hesitating about installing the 4in1 (the busmaster drivers) drivers on NT4.0 since there's no documentation about it. I would like to hear your advice about this matter and if any of you had any similar experiences with this.
My question is, should I install the busmaster drivers from the 4in1 package (that enables UDMA)or should I install the dmacheck.exe program from Microsoft that also enables UDMA. http://support.microsoft.com/download/support/mslfiles/Dmachcki.exe
The reason about why I'm asking you all this is because an article I read about optimizing NT4. http://www.arstechnica.com/tweak/nt/udma.html
I also found this: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q198/1/27.ASP?LNG=ENG&SA=ALLKB&FR=0
Please help me on this.
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Ars technica has the best description on how to do this. I havent tried this with a k6 chipset, but it should work. I followed his directions and found this to work by putting in the value of 0x2. I think you must have SP5 too.
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Yeah you're right I tried it and my disk troughput doubled
But for those with a K6-x system... DO NOT try the VIA drivers on NT. They f*cked up my system bigtime
[This message has been edited by pirinto (edited 05 March 2000).]
But for those with a K6-x system... DO NOT try the VIA drivers on NT. They f*cked up my system bigtime
[This message has been edited by pirinto (edited 05 March 2000).]
