X-ray Doc
December 8th 03, 08:25 PM
>-----Original Message-----
>I upgraded my machine from win-98se to winXP home and
cant
>get the ultra DMA to work corectly.
>The system is a barebones modle 45sk4626602 made by
BTC.It
>has a SIS 730 chipset, AMI BIOS, AMD Duron 900 processor
>and 2 ATA 100 capable HDD's, a Maxtor 53073H6 & a Western
>Digital WD-400ab-00bva0.
>The best I can get is multiword DMA mode 2. On bootup the
>system shows ultra DMA mode 5,s.m.a.r.t capable but
disabled.
>I have sent messages to BTC,AMI, & SIS with no replyes.
>Any other ideas????
>
>Bill
>.
>I had a similar problem once where my combo DVD/CD-RW
drive was stuck on PIO mode even though I new it
supported DMA. This worked for me. I don't know if it
will work for you. Go to device manager and click on the
IDE/ATAPI plus sign. Then choose the IDE channel that
contains the problem drive. Uninstall it. When you
reboot, it will be reinstalled automatically and
hopefully will detect your drive correctly.
>I upgraded my machine from win-98se to winXP home and
cant
>get the ultra DMA to work corectly.
>The system is a barebones modle 45sk4626602 made by
BTC.It
>has a SIS 730 chipset, AMI BIOS, AMD Duron 900 processor
>and 2 ATA 100 capable HDD's, a Maxtor 53073H6 & a Western
>Digital WD-400ab-00bva0.
>The best I can get is multiword DMA mode 2. On bootup the
>system shows ultra DMA mode 5,s.m.a.r.t capable but
disabled.
>I have sent messages to BTC,AMI, & SIS with no replyes.
>Any other ideas????
>
>Bill
>.
>I had a similar problem once where my combo DVD/CD-RW
drive was stuck on PIO mode even though I new it
supported DMA. This worked for me. I don't know if it
will work for you. Go to device manager and click on the
IDE/ATAPI plus sign. Then choose the IDE channel that
contains the problem drive. Uninstall it. When you
reboot, it will be reinstalled automatically and
hopefully will detect your drive correctly.