Specifications

4. Select DMA in the Options section and then click on the OK buttons
to close the dialog boxes.
After Windows restarts, your hard drive will access the computer’s
memory directly, which may or may not provide a noticeable speed
increase.
Video Card
Believe it or not, your video card can have an effect on your computer
system’s performance. First, hardware video acceleration can cause
problems with audio playback. If you have a PCI-based video card, and
your audio is sometimes plagued with clicks, pops, or other anomalies,
these sounds could mean that your hardware video acceleration is set too
high. Try dragging a program window around on the screen while your
computer is playing digital audio tracks. Does this action affect the audio?
If so, you can try reducing or disabling hardware video acceleration to
remedy the problem. To do so, just follow these steps:
1. Open the Windows Control Panel and double-click on System.
2. In the System Properties dialog box, click on the Performance tab.
Then click on the Graphics button under Advanced Settings.
3. In the Advanced Graphics Settings dialog box, drag the Hardware
Acceleration slider to the left, to either reduce or disable hardware
video acceleration. The dialog box should look similar to Figure 2.11.
Figure 2.11
The amount of
hardware video
acceleration is set
via the Advanced
Graphics Settings
dialog box.
Figure 2.10
This generic hard disk
drive Properties dialog
box shows the hard
drive settings.
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