Hey, A while back someone gave me an older PC that I set up for my youngest daughter. It is a PIII 700Mhz machine running XP Pro and 512MB RAM.
The system started running slowly. I tracked it down to a very high interrupt processing time (30-90% viewed via process explorer). The drive is stuck in one of the PIO modes. I ran the registry mods that I think I got from here a long time ago and it did not fix it. I tried various things that I found out via Google, but still nothing. I even replaced it with another drive thinking that it might be a drive issue. But it is the same old thing. Anyone know what else I might try? Do you think it might be the EIDE controller on the MB? I could put a Promise EIDE controller in there, but most likely I'd have to format and start over. Thanks, Bobby
