[Athlon64] RS480 Sound, Video problems

RS480M2-IL
Athlon 64 3000 Winchester
(1x) 512mb Corsair XMS DDR3200
Samsung Spinpoint 160Gb SATA HDD
Pioneer DVR-109
Windows 2000SP4
Power DVD6
Drivers from installation CD
Realtek audio driver 5.10.00.5761
ATI Catalyst 5.6 drivers
I bought this board to run a HTPC system and seem to be having problems with slow running and video playback.
Apart from windows / drivers and PowerDVD nothing else is running on this machine, no firewall, virus checking etc.
The first thing I noticed was how long it took to load windows, defrag the hard drive and load other applications, compared to my old Celeron 2.4 / MSI 865pe machine.
Video play back using PowerDVD from the hard drive or DVD player is extremely stuttery, the sound is awful ( speech sounded like people were under water ).
I disabled the on board sound and installed an old sound blaster card which improved the sound quality.
Do I need to purchase a separate video and sound card to be able to watch DVDs or should the on board sound and video be enough.
Thanks for the help   

OK....that's consistent with prior reports of slow SATA performance with Win2K and SATA using that combination.  If you check Device Manager for the "IDE Channel" for the drive, it should also report operating in PIO Mode, i.e. it's not running DMA.  That would confirm the problem.
I'm not sure yet what is a good solution.  The combination works in XP (IDE mode and XP IDE driver), but not Win2K, so I'm guessing DRIVER.  I did suggest trying install of the SATA driver and/or switching Bios mode to RAID and trying the SATA driver during Setup at F6 prompt to others, but don't recall seeing any posts suggesting those recommendations worked.
In my opinion, that's the first item to work-on/fix.  I'm also aware that the latest ATI IGP driver 5.6 set is reported buggy and the Realtek drivers on the latest MSI CD are buggy.  Drivers on the orignal CD worked OK.  I did post a link for the original Realtek drivers for download on another Forum thread.
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