i have an asus a7a266 (damn i hate alimagik) mb. i used bootvis to tune up the boot but theres an error, that the disk write cache is disabled (in bootvis). i changed the drivers and saw, that the windows standard drivers have only 3 times of that startgraphic (instead of 40 with normal drivers [ali integrated, newes version]).

is there another version or hint to activate the cache and tune up the boot process



(sry 4 my english, im german )

I know in my BIOS that I can enable that feature, check your BIOS, if it isnt in there, go do a google search for it, go to your manufacture webpage, check in there for a manual in a pdf format, and go through there for the feature, and see if it is enableable,
but anyways, why tune the boot of windows XP?? it boots fast enough as it is dude!

Its just the write caching policy set through windows. To get it just right click on my computer - go to properties - click the hardware tab - click the device manager button. Double click "disk drives".

Double click the drive that pops out from "disk drives". Go to the "policies" tab and enable there.

i found the mentioned option (big thx), but its activated and grey, so i cant change it. i'll try bootvis again, but other solutions would be fine

the guest was me, i forgot to login

Are you using the 1.09, 1.06 or 1.04 integrated drivers? -

I think ALI disable write-caching in XP and use their own proprietary form of caching.

Try this:

Uninstall the Ali integrated driver
Edit the setup.ini in the driver folder as follows

Under [Setup Items]

edit the line that says

SetupIDECache=Y

to

SetupIDECache=N

then reinstall the drivers.

I think you have write-caching anyway, just not the XP algorithm

Let me know what happens. :-?

good idea, but my prob is, that is an installer, which i cant unpack with winrar.

Heres a workaround:

Right click my computer - go to properties - click the advanced tab.
Click Environment variables button
In the top window there will be 2 temp paths in documents and settings,
delete these (this will change your temp to c:\windows\temp - the default is tricky to find)

Clear out your c:\windows\temp folder

launch the installer

Dont click next or anything just open explorer and browse to c:\windows\temp - all the setup files will be there

Next copy everything in c:\windows\temp to another folder (there will be a couple of folders and a file) .

Cancel the setup

Go into your new pft25.tmp folder and edit setup.ini there

rerun the setup from here

You can replace the self install version with this one so it removes the cache every time. :roll:

That will maybe only disable the read-ahead cache.

The actual registry setting is:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\IDE\DiskMaxtor_5T030H3_________ _________________TAH71DP0\33543248594b4350202020202020202020202020\Device Parameters\Disk\UserWriteCacheSetting 0/1

in my comp - yours should be similar just substitue for your hdd model

also make sure your not in currentcontrolset0001 or 0002

See what it says there.

i only reached Device Parameters, the disc-key wasnt there