To speed up your hard disk speed we need to configure a special buffer in the computer's memory in order to enable it to better deal with interrupts made from the disk.
This tip is only recommended if you have 256MB RAM or higher.
Follow these steps:
Run SYSEDIT.EXE from the Run command.
Expand the system.ini file window.
Scroll down almost to the end of the file till you find a line called [386enh].
Press Enter to make one blank line, and in that line type
Irq14=4096
Note: This line is CASE SENSITIVE!!!
Click on the File menu, then choose Save.
Close SYSEDIT and reboot your computer.
Done. Speed improvement will be noticed after the computer reboots.
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1 comment:
NONSENSE!
This cannot possibly work with any modern system. In all NT platform systems, including XP and Vista, the system.ini file is virtually obsolete. It is maintained only for compatibility with old 16 bit applications that cannot access the registry. Settings for any other purpose will be ignored.
Hard disk performance is governed primarily by seek time. No added buffer will influence this. In any event assigning a buffer to an IRQ is pointless.
Larry Miller
Microsoft MCSA
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