thanks tony. that seemed to make it faster. but i am not happy about getting a lot of missed frames from my digital capture card when i try to capture from my digital camera so i am guessing it is a motherboard/system resource/registry problem. my motherboard does not accept ultra dma hard drives and so that can be another problem. so i will get a new one.

can anyone recommend me a good quality hassle free/no compatiblelity problems motherboard? i'm also thinking about going scsi to free up more system resources. is this true? thanks!