> ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xBFA0 irq 14 > ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xBFA8 irq 15 > scsi0 : ata_piix > ata1.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 156301488 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) > ata1.00: ata1: dev 0 multi count 8 > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 > scsi1 : ata_piix > ata2.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/33 > usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 > ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33 > scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST980825AS 8.04 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 Disk at UDMA/133, CD at UDMA/33 - that all looks good. The other bottleneck then would be the video - what video hardware does it have ?