Win2k + CUSL2 performance

This is a discussion about Win2k + CUSL2 performance in the Windows Hardware category; I am getting REALLY bad disk performance with this setup in Win2k. My HDD is constantly getting thrashed, and everything is much more sluggish than expected. Anybody got this working on a decent performance level?.

Windows Hardware 9627 This topic was started by Gladiator, 2001-01-30 04:25. Last reply by Gladiator, 2001-02-02 07:04

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Gladiator

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#38589

2001-01-30 05:25

I am getting REALLY bad disk performance with this setup in Win2k. My HDD is constantly getting thrashed, and everything is much more sluggish than expected. Anybody got this working on a decent performance level?

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Gladiator

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#38590

2001-01-30 05:29

Sys specs below. I should be running it quite smoothly, don't you agree?

BTW, my Sandra HDD scores are like 10000 now, in Win98se they are over 24,000.

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PIII 700e @ 1021mhz
Asus CUSL2
256MB PC133
IBM 75GXP 30.0GB ATA100/7200RPM
Geforce 2 GTS Pro

anak1

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#38591

2001-01-30 08:05

I believe you have to manually enable ATA 66 in Win2K. Some registry setting, i dont remember which. ATA 100 support is coming in SP2 I believe.

Gladiator

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#38592

2001-01-30 08:13

Yes, I've tried that, as well as using some of the tweak guides from various websites, all to no avail. Seems strange to me because I used to have Win2k running on a 5400rpm Maxtor drive awhile back (albeit not on this system) and it ran extremely smooth.

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PIII 700e @ 1021mhz
Asus CUSL2
256MB PC133
IBM 75GXP 30.0GB ATA100/7200RPM
Geforce 2 GTS Pro

BladeRunner

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#38593

2001-01-30 10:41

My CUSL-2 has just been sent back for repair
Once I get it back I will run some tests again and see the benchmark scores, however I must admit I had never noticed any bad performance with this board.

lexluthor

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#38594

2001-01-30 12:06

whats the pagefile min/max set to?
make sure they are both set to the same setting. changing pagefile size on the fly is horridly slow. u have the same system memory i do so u can set your pagefile to cache only when nessesary

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
and set this dword to
DisablePagingExecutive 1
war

zalem

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#38595

2001-01-30 19:24

Try a standard ata 33 ide cable instaed of the ata 100 ide cable, since win2k doesnt support ata 100 until sp2. Or call microsoft to get the pre-sp2 hotfix for ata100 support

Gladiator

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#38596

2001-02-01 07:33

Any other ideas? I'm sure there are a lot of people running this combo.

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PIII 700e @ 1021mhz
Asus CUSL2
256MB PC133
IBM 75GXP 30.0GB ATA100/7200RPM
Geforce 2 GTS Pro

clutch

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#38597

2001-02-01 15:20

OK, dumb question. Are you running Win2K Pro, Server, or Adv. Server? Also, "findfast" isn't running by chance is it?

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clutch

Gladiator

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#38598

2001-02-02 07:04

It's Win2k pro, and no, findfast is not running.