Hello Shane,

Thank you for using newsgroup!

From your post, it is hard to determine why the rate is dropping. The base
score of your computer is determined by reviewing a collection of
"subscores" assigned to various hardware components within your computer.
Subscores are assigned to the following components:

RAM random access memory
CPU central processing unit
Hard disk
General graphics performance on the desktop
3D graphics capability

Your computer's base score is determined by the lowest subscore. For
example, if the lowest subscore of a hardware component in your computer is
2.6, then the base score of your computer will be 2.6. The base score is
not an average of the combined subscores.

For more related information, please refer to the following articles:
Windows Experience Index
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...grade/experien
ceindex.mspx

Windows Vista Help: Understand and improve your computer's performance
using the Windows Experience Index
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/win...unity/wei.mspx

Thanks & Regards,

Ken Zhao

Microsoft Online Support
Microsoft Global Technical Support Center

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| Hello,
|
| I have an Intel C2D E6600 CPU installed on an Asus P5W DH Deluxe
| motherboard. I recently installed Vista Home Premium (32bit) with a hard
| drive configuration of one Western Digital 10k SATA drive (for system and
| application files) and two Seagate 320gig SATA2 drives. I had a spare
SCSI
| Fujitsu 10K 36gig drive (I connected it to a LSI SCSI adapter), so I
thought
| that I would configure a dual boot system with Windows XP and Vista - one
OS
| on each 10K drive. I did not have much success with getting the dual
boot
| function to work. However, I was able to install Vista on the 10K
Fujitsu
| SCSI drive and, provided the Fujitsu was set as the boot drive in the
| motherboard's bios, I was able to boot into Vista. If I set the 10K SATA
| drive as the boot device in the bios, I was also able to then boot into
XP.
|
| When running Vista with this configuration, I noted that the Windows
| Experience Index was rated at 5.6. I guess if I persevered with this
| configuration I would have been able to get the dual boot function to
work
| (I had used VistaBoot Pro). Anyway, I thought that if both drives were
on
| the same interface, dual booting would be easier to achieve. So I took
out
| the 10K SATA drive and replaced it with a 36gig (10K) IBM SCSI drive
| configured off the same SCSI PCI adapter. Both drives have seperate
SCSI
| IDs and are on the same channel with an active terminator at the end of
the
| connecting SCSI cable. I was able to install Win XP on the replacement
| drive (IBM SCSI) and eventually was able to get the PC to dual boot to
Vista
| and XP (Vista being the default OS).
|
| Now after all that rambling, I was surprised to see that the Windows
| Experience Index, with this configuration, drop to 4.7(being the primary
| hard disk reading)! Considering that both drives are 10K drives as well
as
| being SCSI (which I though was the faster interface compared to IDE and
| SATA), I am stumped as to why this is so.
|
| Would the installation of the PCI SCSI card itself which slows down the
boot
| process have anything to do with this drop in performance?
|
| Thank you,
|
| Shane
|
|