DVD and USB slow performance

[novon]

Hi,

I recently upgraded from an Asus A7V to a MSI K7T Trubo, reinstalled win2k, and now my USB speakers stutter a lot - especially when the hard drive is accessed, and my Power DVD stutters to when playing movies. The only difference in setup besides the mobo is that I put the DVD-ROM and CDRW on the same IDE channel. The HD has it's own IDE channel. Any ideas what could cause this slow performance?

Also, how do I make sure I am running in UltraATA 100 4 my hd in win2k?

For system specs see below.

Thanks!

-Arash

 

[Yzzim]

Did you install Windows Media Player 7 by any chance? My friend installed that and it slowed down everything.

 

[knutp]

I've heard that the udma 100, via chipset and win 2k is not running to well! try to set the harddrive to udma 66 instead...

 

[darat]

Another idea...keep your HD on the Primary controller set to master. Then put the CD-RW on the secondary as master and the DVD as slave on the secondary.

Additionally, Win2k might not be set for UDMA100. By default it is set for UDMA33 and you have to regedit to get the UDMA66. Here is some information for those with W2K and a UDMA100 HD.

UDMA 100