DeMoN_LaG wrote:
> Mark wrote:
>
>> One of the things that plagued me (not a major issue, but a real
>> annoyance), was that whenever I minimized Mozilla, and tried to
>> restore a previously minimized app, I had a 4 or 5 second delay. The
>> system worked well otherwise, and was solid as a rock, but that
>> really annoyed me. I am running Windows 2000 on a K6-450 with 256MB
>> RAM, and a 32MB ATI All-in-Wonder Pro AGP. Not a state of the art
>> CPU, but the machine's really no slouch either. In any case, I
>> started wondering . . the HD's in this box have always been running
>> in PIO mode with the default WIN2K IDE drivers. So, finally tonight,
>> I gave the latest VIA 4.32 drivers a shot, and installed the IDE
>> busmaster driver. For starters, the system loads Windows in about one
>> third the time - really! And, no more lag time, when minimizing
>> Mozilla and switching between applications.
>> I'm posting this here, because Mozilla was really the only
>> application that exhibited this symptom on my box. I never really
>> considered it sluggish before (though I know it was now), but this
>> made a dramatic difference in Mozilla performance as far as I'm
>> concerned. So, if you're system has a VIA chipset, and you do NOT
>> have UDMA enabled, this definitely affects Mozilla performance even
>> if you see no issues otherwise with the system.
>> FWIW, my motherboard is a Soyo-5EHM with the ETEQ (same as VIA) chipset.
>>
>> Mark
>
>
> Since UDMA does nothing to hurt performance or stability in any way,
> there is really no reason to NOT install busmastering drivers that
> support it anyhow.
>
There were specific instructions included with my mobo telling me *not*
to install the VIA IDE drivers since it could cause a STOP error. I
haven't bothered to see if there was a newer version though.
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