I have been running an AV MASTER card for 2 years on a 333mhz cyrix in a PC100 K7 board with 64mb ram under Win98. It has always been reliable with Fast capture benchmark showing around 7.5 mb/s on caddy mounted drives. I have just put together a new system on an AMD DURON 800mhz in a PC266 socket A board with 256mb ram. The card is the AV MASTER 2000, same board improved software.OS is Win98se. When I put the same caddy mounted drives in the new system, I get a benchmark reading of only 2.00 mb/s.
I've tried re-formatting drives, changing bios settings, re-istalling Windows and now I need some help. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
Did you activate DMA for the harddisks?
Robert has, I suspect, discovered the problem.
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Bob C
Bob C.
Thanks for replying. there were no other posts on this thread, as I emailed Robert directly, however, this simple solution did not answer the problem. DMA is enabled on both HDDs and in fact the system drive is running at around four times the transfer rate of the 2nd drive. The drives are on IDE 1 for the system drive and IDE 2 for the second drive which is caddy mounted and runs perfectly in the slower Cyrix 333 system which is configured the same way. I have tried other caddy mounted drives which work fine with the Cyrix, but show the same problem on the AMD duron machine. I have tried disconnecting the CDwriter rom so there are no other pathways on the secondary IDE. I am beginning to wonder if there is a fault on the mother board
Roger Gunkel.