First post, by Caroline78
I've recently built two almost identical Windows 98 rigs.
They both have ASRock P4i65G motherboards, Pentium 4 Northwood CPUs clocked at 2.8GHz, 512MB DDR RAM, SB Live! soundcards, Seagate 40GB IDE HDDs, SATA DVD-RW drives. The BIOS settings of both rigs are the same.
The only differences are:
Rig#1 has a Radeon 9250 video card. Windows 98 SE was installed without ACPI support.
Rig#2 has a Radeon 9600 Pro video card. Windows 98 SE was installed with ACPI support (setup /p j).
The read speed for CDs in Rig#2 is capped at 10x no matter what I do. The read speed in Rig#1 is the maximum speed of the drive.
I've tried using a different SATA cable, different SATA connector on the mobo, replacing the drive with a drive of a different make, you name it. The read speed was still capped at 10x.
Does anyone have an idea where the problem can be?
Thanks in advance for your input,
Caroline