Peter
April 17th 03, 04:43 PM
I have a Compaq Armada M700 with an Intel 440BX chipset and a clean
install of Windows XP Professional + SP1. The hard disk drive is a
Hitachi DK23BA-20 capable of UDMA mode 4, but according to the device
manager it's only on UDMA mode 2. The HDD is master on the primary IDE
channel along with a DVD drive as slave. The DVD drive is on multi
word DMA mode 2.
My real concern is not transfer speed, but the noise (clanks) from the
HDD. I guess the heads are parked very often, some times every 3
seconds or so.
Before the clean install of Windows XP the computer was running
Windows 2000. I was then able to eliminate the noise with Intel
Application Accelerator (IAA), but I don't remember which version of
IAA I used. According to www.intel.com the current version 2.3 of IAA
does not support the 440BX chipset. Some earlier versions must have
supported my chipset, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to use it
previously. That the 440BX chipset has been supported at some earlier
stage is confirmed by table 7 on
http://www.intel.com/performance/resources/mobile/test_configuration_mobile.htm
I have without any luck installed (and then uninstalled) IAA version
2.22, 2.2 and 2.1. It is possible to install version 2.22, 2.2 and
2.1, but when launching the program I get the error message "Intel
Application Accelerator driver was not detected". If I choose "update
driver" in the device manager and then browse to the IAA\Drivers
directory, it seems that only 8xx chipsets are supported. The software
archive on www.intel.com does not hold version 2.0 that has been used
on a 440BX chipset according to table 7 on
http://www.intel.com/performance/resources/mobile/test_configuration_mobile.htm
as mentioned above.
I have also tried "Feature Tool" from Hitachi/IBM and PowerBooster
from IBM, still without any luck. In the control panel, power
management is set never to turn off hard disk drives.
Any suggestions on how to install IAA, increasing the UDMA mode
directly in Windows XP or otherwise eliminating the HDD clanks would
be highly appreciated!
install of Windows XP Professional + SP1. The hard disk drive is a
Hitachi DK23BA-20 capable of UDMA mode 4, but according to the device
manager it's only on UDMA mode 2. The HDD is master on the primary IDE
channel along with a DVD drive as slave. The DVD drive is on multi
word DMA mode 2.
My real concern is not transfer speed, but the noise (clanks) from the
HDD. I guess the heads are parked very often, some times every 3
seconds or so.
Before the clean install of Windows XP the computer was running
Windows 2000. I was then able to eliminate the noise with Intel
Application Accelerator (IAA), but I don't remember which version of
IAA I used. According to www.intel.com the current version 2.3 of IAA
does not support the 440BX chipset. Some earlier versions must have
supported my chipset, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to use it
previously. That the 440BX chipset has been supported at some earlier
stage is confirmed by table 7 on
http://www.intel.com/performance/resources/mobile/test_configuration_mobile.htm
I have without any luck installed (and then uninstalled) IAA version
2.22, 2.2 and 2.1. It is possible to install version 2.22, 2.2 and
2.1, but when launching the program I get the error message "Intel
Application Accelerator driver was not detected". If I choose "update
driver" in the device manager and then browse to the IAA\Drivers
directory, it seems that only 8xx chipsets are supported. The software
archive on www.intel.com does not hold version 2.0 that has been used
on a 440BX chipset according to table 7 on
http://www.intel.com/performance/resources/mobile/test_configuration_mobile.htm
as mentioned above.
I have also tried "Feature Tool" from Hitachi/IBM and PowerBooster
from IBM, still without any luck. In the control panel, power
management is set never to turn off hard disk drives.
Any suggestions on how to install IAA, increasing the UDMA mode
directly in Windows XP or otherwise eliminating the HDD clanks would
be highly appreciated!