Intel Pentium 4 User Manual
2.1
Install and Run Procedure Common to All Standard Benchmarks and Tests
This section outlines the run procedure recommended for all benchmarks and tests:
• Always start with a clean, formatted hard disk.
• Extract all driver files from the installation package “F6 INSTALL 2600.exe” to a floppy disk after
downloading the file from
• This floppy contains the iaStor.inf, iaStor.sys, iaStor.cat and TxtSetup.oem files in the root directory.
• Begin installation Windows*XP Professional Edition with SP2 from the operating system CD.
• At the beginning of the operating system setup, press F6 to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver.
• When prompted, select 'S' to Specify Additional Device.
• When prompted, insert the floppy disk you created and press enter.
• At this point you should be presented with a selection for "Intel(R) RAID Controller". Highlight this
selection and press enter.
• Press enter again to continue. Leave the floppy disk in the system until the next reboot as the software
will need to be copied from the floppy disk again when setup is copying files.
• Format the file system to NTFS.
• After installation of the OS is complete restart your system.
• Install the Intel Application Accelerator RAID edition “iata_cd.exe” from
• Install DirectX 9.0c from
• From Display Properties – Settings - change the graphics resolution to 1024x768 and 32-bit colors.
• From Display Properties – Settings – Advanced – Monitor, change the monitor setting to “Plug and Play
monitor” and refresh rate to 75 Hz.
• Turning off Visual Effects: Right click on My Computer on your desktop, click on the Advanced Tab
and click on the Settings button in the performance section, Click the Visual Effects Tab, choose Custom
and uncheck all the boxes. Click OK. Having visual effects on is known to decrease performance across
all platforms.
• Disable System Restore: Right click on My Computer on your desktop, click on the System Restore Tab,
check the box called Turn off System Restore. Click ok. The System Restore captures the state of the
system at any given time and stores the information on the hard disk. Having System Restore On,
increases the run to run variation on most benchmarks.
• Disable Windows Update: Right click on My Computer on your desktop, click on the Automatic
Updates Tab, click the option to “Turn off automatic updating, I want to update my computer manually.”
Click OK. It is important to turn this option off because the window may come to the foreground during
a benchmark run which may cause the test to fail.
• In the Control Panel, double click on Display, click on the Settings tab, click the Screen Saver tab, select
(None) in the Screen Saver option. Click on the Power button, click on the Power Schemes tab, and