SCSI problem

Gyck

Hi,

I have a Tekram 390u scsi controller connected to a 10Gb h/d which was working fine for a few months. But then I started to notice that the disk seemed to be thrashing alot, and generally access times became terrible. BTW, there's buckets of free space on the disk.

I swapped out the card for an old Adaptec 1540 IDE and performance seems to have improved marginally.

I'm running Win95, 128Mb ram, Celeron 400 o'cd to 450. Could it have anything to do with PCI timing since I'm overclocked? Or what? I haven't changed anything since I got the card.

Any ideas?

WhiteWashMan

turn of all the crap you atre running in the background in cluding all the stuff ou dont need in msconfig
loose all the rubbish in your startup folder
scandisk and defrag
after that yer on yer own


woops!
msconfig not on win95 is it...well if you want to bugger up your redistry thats up to you

SantaHoe

Registry editing is fine once you know where to go...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run (RunOnce, RunOnceEx, RunServices, RunServicesOnce)
Just delete the values in those keys and your fine.


(Just run "regedit.exe")

[This message has been edited by Dead{o}Santa (edited 14-12-1999).]

Gyck

Interesting...

Though I can't see how crap running in the background would only affect one of my hard disks.

But hey, it's worth trying.

Ta,
G.

SantaHoe

Here Gyck, try disabling the windows swapfile and "end-task" on everything besides explorer and systray...
If you still get a lot of HDD thrashing, it's probably a hardware problem...

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WhiteWashMan

ohhh youd be surprised.......