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Old 19-11-2005, 09:27
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Originally Posted by DrEaMpLaY
No. I have also fast HD (not that fast as yours i think) - 30gb Maxtor.
What OS? If you're using something older than XP (I'm not that familiar with XP yet), make sure "enable DMA" is checked for your HD in your system's device manager. I know this seems obvious, but I made this mistake. A couple years ago, my PC seemed to slow waaaay down and I didn't know why. I didn't think to check the DMA setting... it was fine last time I looked, but it had come UNCHECKED! hehe... When I finally realized this, (I won't tell you how long it took me), it was like a new computer again. lol@myself

A quick example:
* With DMA unchecked it took about 45-50 minutes to make a 670 MB iso (that was on a 1GHZ Athlon with 512MB ram 64MB nvidia geforce4 and 7200rpm 80GB HD). It also took forever to make a large dummy file.
* With DMA checked it took less than 2 minutes to make the same iso and even large dummy files only took a second or 2.

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