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narf poit chez BOOM · #1 June 16th, 2004, 03:03 AM

I've never used 2000.

David E. Gervais · #2 June 16th, 2004, 03:21 AM

I'm running WinXP Home, when I check my IDE devices it says..

transfer mode

MA if available
(Current Mode:PIO)

there is no option to force DMA, I suspect it's because the BIOS has UDMA Disabled. I don't see how windows would be able to 'bypass' BIOS since BIOS is the very first thing that is loaded.

If any of you know where I should look to togle DMA on in WinXP, please let me know.

,.. I just checked my MB manual and I was wrong, when my computer boots it doesn't say "UDMA capable but not enabled." It says, "S.M.A.R.T Capable but not Enabled." Is this the thing that I should toggle on in my BIOS? Is this what will allow WinXP to use the DMA access for the HD and CD-ROM?

Thanks for any feedback, Cheers!

Fyron · #3 June 16th, 2004, 03:43 AM

Narf:
Scroll down a few Posts to find the procedure. It is on the first page as of this posting.

Quote:

I don't see how windows would be able to 'bypass' BIOS since BIOS is the very first thing that is loaded.

Windows, Linux, BSD, etc. all ignore half of the BIOS settings, especially related to IRQs and such, once the OS is booted. It does not bypass it, it just uses its own values for some of the settings once loaded.

Phoenix-D · #4 June 16th, 2004, 03:46 AM

SMART has nothing to do with DMA. Its a hard drive monitoring tool that is supposed to detect drive failures before they get serious.

Aiken · #5 June 16th, 2004, 05:28 AM

David, please check if you have the latest MB drivers installed, I've seen such effects on newer mb when no proper chipset drivers were installed.

[ June 16, 2004, 04:37: Message edited by: aiken ]

Sivran · #6 June 16th, 2004, 10:02 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Roanon:
Yep, sounds like that standard 2000 pitfall. DMA is, for reasons unknown to everyone except probably the crazy mind of the antichrist B.G. himself, default OFF in 2000 after the installation.

This is also true in Win98 and presumably is OFF for compatiblity with "legacy" hardware. Often Windows will tell you that the drive is running in "DOS Compatibility mode" if this setting is off, but should be on.

Then again, it might've just been this crazy Dell. I don't *remember* ever turning DMA on for my other machine's hard drives, which are definitely UDMA.

narf poit chez BOOM · #7 June 16th, 2004, 11:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Narf:
Scroll down a few Posts to find the procedure. It is on the first page as of this posting.

Thanks. DMA was on anyway.