"Compatibility mode paging reduces overall system performance." ?

Today, I finally checked into a whole bunch of strange, minor little issues with my system and found a pretty big problem.

I'll spare the gory details (for now) and just say that I looked in my Control Panel, System, Performance, and probably found the root of all the problems:

Under "File System" it says "some drives are using MS-DOS compatibilty", and in the box below it says:

"Compatibility mode paging reduces overall system performance."

"Windows Millennium Edition was unable to identify a real-mode driver or memory-resident program loaded in your Config.sys or Autoexec.bat file. You will see another message that lists the name of the driver or program causing the problem.
Because Windows Millennium Edition could not identify the driver or program, it has switched to MS-DOS compatibility mode to ensure the program will run. However, this decreases overall performance. To improve performance, remove the program or driver causing the problem, or contact its manufacturer for an upgraded version."

It also has a message saying:

"Drive C is using an MS-DOS compatibility mode file system." and the details refer you to whats above.

So I looked in my autoexec.bat and config.sys in C: root directory, and both had nothing unusual (config was empty) ***BUT*** in c:\windows\command\EBD both of those files appear and are filled with all sorts of crazy crap.

Which set is my computer using?

I already found the microsoft page: "http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q130/1/79.ASP" and it wasn't much help.

Any ideas would be appreciated!

I believe the EBD folder is just used for creating a startup disk, what motherboard do you have and has it got a Raid controller?

I have an ASUS A7V133 KT133A mobo (for a 1.2 Athalon). I think this board is RAID compatible, but I am not using RAID.

You need to download the latest Via chipset drivers.

Go to http://www.reactorcritical.com/download.shtml


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If your hard drive is connected to the raid controller on the Mobo, even if you are not using raid as such, then you will need install the raid software on the mobo's CD.

Where is you hard drive connected?

Well, after much trouble I was able to resolve this. I did some thinking as to what the root cause could have been and I narrowed it down to the network card I had installed myself. Turns out I had put the card into the 'non-reccommended' slot and it was sharing an IRQ with the IDE controller. This was causing a conflict that Windows chose not to tell me about. The IDE controller showed up in device manager as working fine, even though it wasn't.

Even after moving the network card windows said everything was fine (but the file error was still there). So I reinstalled windows in desperation and then for some reason it recognised that the IDE controller was screwed. So I reinstalled it and that fixed the problem.

Glad you got sorted - thanks for posting back.

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