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ASUS P5GDC deluxe
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I made a major mistake, buying a computer from an engineer for a price you would not pay in any store. Ofcourse I got a major heap of not-working crap.... I wanted something special with lots of hard-drives. So I got an ASUS P5 GDC deluxe and try to run Windows XP (SP2) on it. I have 2 WDC 400 GB SATAs and they are running fairly fast. Sometimes I have some additional IDE drives (mostly samsung) attached with the ITE-raidmanager. My problem is the start drive connected through IDE. The benchmark test reported it to be a bit faster than an USB-stick. So I replaced it with another iDE drive that gained nice results before. But now the new start drive is not even as fast as a 1983 - 2 GB SCSI drive. Sometimes whole the system freezes (including the mouse pointer) when there is some disk access. To me this sounds like a lack of DMA but I roamed through all the funny BIOS and found no opportunity to give my machine more DMA. As for the Winodws XP I took away the addiitonal IDE-drives from the raidmanager and de-installed ITE, but this was not the bad guy keeping my system down. I run Norton Intenret security for antivirus/firewall ....but this can not be such a sucker of power. Does anybody have an idea what I would need to fix? Kind regards Juergen Schroeder |
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"Juergen Schroeder" wrote in message oups.com... Hi, I made a major mistake, buying a computer from an engineer for a price you would not pay in any store. Ofcourse I got a major heap of not-working crap.... I wanted something special with lots of hard-drives. So I got an ASUS P5 GDC deluxe and try to run Windows XP (SP2) on it. I have 2 WDC 400 GB SATAs and they are running fairly fast. Sometimes I have some additional IDE drives (mostly samsung) attached with the ITE-raidmanager. My problem is the start drive connected through IDE. The benchmark test reported it to be a bit faster than an USB-stick. So I replaced it with another iDE drive that gained nice results before. But now the new start drive is not even as fast as a 1983 - 2 GB SCSI drive. Sometimes whole the system freezes (including the mouse pointer) when there is some disk access. To me this sounds like a lack of DMA but I roamed through all the funny BIOS and found no opportunity to give my machine more DMA. As for the Winodws XP I took away the addiitonal IDE-drives from the raidmanager and de-installed ITE, but this was not the bad guy keeping my system down. I run Norton Intenret security for antivirus/firewall ...but this can not be such a sucker of power. Does anybody have an idea what I would need to fix? Kind regards Juergen Schroeder I use the same board with an EM64T @ 3.6 and I only use the IDE for my optical drives. I use 4 WD SATA drives with 2 running as single drives and the other 2 in a Raid-0 array for video work. I get very good numbers on all drives both R/W. I have never tried any HDDs on the IDE. I would check and make sure you are running the latest chipset drivers and latest bios update (1011 or 1012...can't remember). All are on the asus.com website. Ed |
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ASUS P5GDC deluxe
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"Juergen Schroeder" wrote: Hi, I made a major mistake, buying a computer from an engineer for a price you would not pay in any store. Ofcourse I got a major heap of not-working crap.... I wanted something special with lots of hard-drives. So I got an ASUS P5 GDC deluxe and try to run Windows XP (SP2) on it. I have 2 WDC 400 GB SATAs and they are running fairly fast. Sometimes I have some additional IDE drives (mostly samsung) attached with the ITE-raidmanager. My problem is the start drive connected through IDE. The benchmark test reported it to be a bit faster than an USB-stick. So I replaced it with another iDE drive that gained nice results before. But now the new start drive is not even as fast as a 1983 - 2 GB SCSI drive. Sometimes whole the system freezes (including the mouse pointer) when there is some disk access. To me this sounds like a lack of DMA but I roamed through all the funny BIOS and found no opportunity to give my machine more DMA. As for the Winodws XP I took away the addiitonal IDE-drives from the raidmanager and de-installed ITE, but this was not the bad guy keeping my system down. I run Norton Intenret security for antivirus/firewall ...but this can not be such a sucker of power. Does anybody have an idea what I would need to fix? Kind regards Juergen Schroeder The performance shown in HDTach is not that good, with the write performance in the GIF below, being limited to 16MB/sec. The flat line shows it is transfer rate limited. The read performance, with the sloping line, is media (disk) limited, and looks correct. http://www.overclock.net/hard-drives...ata-ide-2.html http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...raidsingle.gif BIOS 1002 through 1010 have ITE8212 BIOS "IT8212 ATAPI BIOS V1.7.1.52". BIOS 1011 has ITE8212 BIOS "IT8212 ATAPI BIOS V1.7.1.591" I would try upgrading the BIOS to 1011 and use the latest driver download from Asus. You can find a copy of HDTach he http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public...request=HdTach ******* Also, just for your interest, this page by ITE also has downloads. http://www.iteusa.com/software_downl..._download2.asp You cannot use the "BIOS Update Utility", because that is for a standalone PCI card with 8212F on it. The BIOS module on the Asus motherboard is stored inside the main BIOS flash chip. In particular, I like reading the comments in "iteraid.c" in src/2.6.x, from this download. It shows some of the development history of the 8212F softwa http://www.iteusa.com/product_info/f..._092005-09.zip HTH, Paul |
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