NON PCI X Computer with only IDE

[New Orleans Novice]

How to make an older NON PCI X Computer with only IDE run faster or more
reliable with Video editing?

Will this COMPAQ PRESARIO S5100 boot up with the 2 IDE channels on this
Motherboard P4G533LA ASUSTeK and the Award BIOS v6.0 know the 2nd DATA cable
is removed from the CDROM and connected to a 2nd HD?

Can this Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.60GHz send instructions through both DATA
cables at the same time and speed it up or will it only run as fast as 1
DATA cable with Master and Slave HD's?

Thanks for your help and tips ; Novice @ New Orleans Louisiana

 

[Andrew E.]

Where does "video editing" fit into start-up time.....The use of 2 IDE
cables with
all connections used has no effect either,youre hd with C: should be
closest to
the MB,set to master,not cable select.PCI X is no faster,or should'nt be,once
xp is running,then PCI X would have benifits.The Celeron processor(s),are not
the fastest,also,try locating the BootVis utility from microsoft,although
microsoft
no longer supports it,it can be found on the web,it speeds up start-up
time,select
"optimize system" in the utility contents.

 

[New Orleans Novice]

Thank you A. I thought with 2 DATA cables on 2 HD's the CPU would send INFO
down both cables at the same time instead of having 1 CABE with 2 HD's

 

[Paul]

How to make an older NON PCI X Computer with only IDE run faster or more
reliable with Video editing?

Will this COMPAQ PRESARIO S5100 boot up with the 2 IDE channels on this
Motherboard P4G533LA ASUSTeK and the Award BIOS v6.0 know the 2nd DATA cable
is removed from the CDROM and connected to a 2nd HD?

Can this Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.60GHz send instructions through both DATA
cables at the same time and speed it up or will it only run as fast as 1
DATA cable with Master and Slave HD's?

Thanks for your help and tips ; Novice @ New Orleans Louisiana

For video editing, the Celeron 2.6GHz would be the limiting factor.

As near as I can determine from the HP.com web site, the computer is
S478 (I'm not finding P4G533LA and S5100 on the same page). And so
the Celeron in that case, would likely be one of the older ones
from the Celeron family.

The disks are probably not the limiting factor. At least some
video formats, used compressed data. That means a lower data
rate, of a few megabytes per second, is enough to allow viewing
a movie at its normal rate. The disks themselves, handle data at
40 to 60 MB/sec, for your average 7200RPM drive of yesteryear.

The Celeron will be very busy, trying to process the data, and
it isn't likely that the hard drives are the limiting step on
that machine.

If the editing software supported a different destination for
the output from the video editing tool, you could set it
up like this. I labeled the volumes as C: and D:, without
a clear understanding of what the actual drive letters are.
Just to show some relationship to what you see in Explorer.

PRI_IDE SEC_IDE
| |
| |
CDROM (E (None)
| |
| |
Hard_Drive (C Hard_Drive (D

The video editor could read the data from C, and write the output to D.

But I really don't think that'll help enough to make a difference.

You might have a look at all the PCs that you own, and see if there
is one with a more powerful processor than the Celeron 2.6GHz.

http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL6W5 (2.6Ghz Celeron)

To check the parameters on your hard drive, you can try this program (HDTach).

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4130.html

I use Hdtune version 2.54, and under the "Info" tab, the program will
show you the mode the drive is in, on the ribbon cable. For example,
my hard drive is listed as "UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100)", and the
motherboard itself is known to have an ATA/100 limit in hardware.
Many Intel chipsets will have a similar ATA/100 limit (not a problem
when the drive itself sustains about 60MB/sec). ATA/100 will be
available, if you're using an 80 wire ribbon cable.

Paul

 

[New Orleans Novice]

Thanks Paul this has been a good read

 

[Lil' Dave]

How to make an older NON PCI X Computer with only IDE run faster or more
reliable with Video editing?

Will this COMPAQ PRESARIO S5100 boot up with the 2 IDE channels on this
Motherboard P4G533LA ASUSTeK and the Award BIOS v6.0 know the 2nd DATA
cable is removed from the CDROM and connected to a 2nd HD?

Can this Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.60GHz send instructions through both
DATA cables at the same time and speed it up or will it only run as fast
as 1 DATA cable with Master and Slave HD's?

Thanks for your help and tips ; Novice @ New Orleans Louisiana

There is no such thing as concurrent use of 2 ide ports.

The video editing program may have its own "swapfile" of sorts, competing
with windows (swapfile) itself for local hard drive access. Still another
component is where you store the resultant edited video data.