unusually low disk performance{Drive-C}

[YODA74]

Have new AMD Athlon 1200Mhz 686 running W/Me 4.90.3000
Drive-c.is running at 2.94 it should be aroud 4.53??
#1.does it need defraging or??
#2.What is create a volume lable (Drive C)
could this have something to do w/running my norton anti.V or w/physical disk itself or a driver?? http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/eek.gif

[Rick]

The First place I would look is at the bios and the drivers for that controller card.
Sounds like the drive is running at ata33 or 66 and not at ata100

A Volume label is nothing more than a Name you give the drive.
It has nothing to do with performance .

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[Dinosaur]

Did you get a CD with the motherboard? If so, did you install any driver software from it?

Have you used the System Performance Tab? Start, Control panel, System.

Under File System, it helps a bit to designate your system as a network server. Might something have put you into DOS compatibility mode? System performance will tell you if it happened.



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[YODA74]

http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/mad.gif This one has me stumpped guy's ? checked what ya'll suggested
#1.went thru whole sys. checked VIA BUS,Primary's, secondary's, ACPI.BIOS.
every thing says working fine no conflict.some do have buutons for updating drivers?? cached speed. 121.39mb/s (79%)
uncached speed 2.94 mb/s(65%)--should be 4.53mb/s
he he he! know what? i'm beginng to wonder if PC Pitstop is full of (#$%&).
Any more suggestions http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/eek.gif

[Rick]

Don’t take this wrong.
BUT did you install the correct ribbon cable for the new drive?

The old 40 pin/wire cable does not support ata100

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[YODA74]

Hey rick ???? this was set up at factory i've never been
inside this it set for optimal performance. and i don't take
anything the wrong way when it comes to computers he he he !
this is less than a year old and it's my second one the mother board went
out on the first one thats Gateway for ya!

[Rick]

In that case it may be time to find a new benchmark program.
Check out Pcmag or any of the other freeware sites for something that may give you another reading or even a better one.

SiSoft Sandra is a good system util.

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[sea69]

where did you get this rating pcpitstop??

what was your score??

it says something similiar about mine..lol

try a sisoftsandra test.. (some don't like it)
but I find it usefull

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[YODA74]

Hey SEA, Ya I have to give pitslop two thumbs down i don't remember
what the score was there even telling me that my memory yellow flagged
crist i have 128mb they said 58Database percentile i don't keep any thing
on this computer only thing on here i'm sure is cookies then they told me security flagged well geees i run norton all the time plus my cable provider runs massive security + i run a modem w/ pipelok only other thing i can do is sit herehw/a shotgun???it's a new sys. not more than 4 months
old . Oh i went to sisoft sandra all i could find on hers was one for w/95/98/nt/i'm running Me? but i'll keep searching or start searching for a good old big tower and build it the way it should be.thanks guys for all yur help Dave http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[sea69]

hehe..

your memory may have 'flagged' because you didn't shut down everything else when you ran the test?

I sometimes use their test to see the capabilities of computers I work on (just for a comparison basis) many of them can not even complete the test prior to me working on them.. (some not even after)

my old DELL celeron used to score around 100- 110.

my athlon 800 gets around 400.. I think many problems are peoples onboard video, not being able to complete the test patterns.

in any event, they return somewhat steady (if disputed) results.

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si_ssoft_sandra for winME can be had here (http://www.tucows.com/winme/preview/169132.html)

but I believe that all of them will work with winME.

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[This message has been edited by sea69 (edited 08-13-2001).]