I/O performance is twice slower than before

[Anthony Do]

Hi,
I've a Windows XP Home Edition PC with following specs.
-Dell 2GHZ CPU
-512MB SDRAM
-80GB HDD on 1st controller
-NEC DV_5800 DVD-ROM on 2nd separate controller as master
-Acer DVD+RW DVD drive on 2nd separate controller as slave
-Windows XP SP1

Normally, I was copying a large 7GB data from my NEC dvd-
rom drive to harddrive at 33 Minutes completion, and now
it is taking twice as long at 56 Minutes completion.
Something has slowdown my bootup time and I/O speed
reduction. I have had tried defragment, msconfig, stop
few unneccessary services, drivers digitally signed, hot
patches, and so on. But I still got slowness and no event
viewer error other than DCOM+ in system.

I need help to speedup my I/O transfer speed between my
DVD devices and HDD. And I want to avoid re-install XP OS.

Please send me your recommendations to my e-mail and
thanks alot for your help!

Anthony,
Nov. 14, 2003

[Mad Max]

Has anyone noticed the date on Anthony's post ? And the triple post,
probably not intentional. Something isn't kosher there.


"Anthony Do" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
> I've a Windows XP Home Edition PC with following specs.
> -Dell 2GHZ CPU
> -512MB SDRAM
> -80GB HDD on 1st controller
> -NEC DV_5800 DVD-ROM on 2nd separate controller as master
> -Acer DVD+RW DVD drive on 2nd separate controller as slave
> -Windows XP SP1
>
> Normally, I was copying a large 7GB data from my NEC dvd-
> rom drive to harddrive at 33 Minutes completion, and now
> it is taking twice as long at 56 Minutes completion.
> Something has slowdown my bootup time and I/O speed
> reduction. I have had tried defragment, msconfig, stop
> few unneccessary services, drivers digitally signed, hot
> patches, and so on. But I still got slowness and no event
> viewer error other than DCOM+ in system.
>
> I need help to speedup my I/O transfer speed between my
> DVD devices and HDD. And I want to avoid re-install XP OS.
>
> Please send me your recommendations to my e-mail and
> thanks alot for your help!
>
> Anthony,
> Nov. 14, 2003
>