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Old 30-06-2003, 02:15 AM   #1
Allan Smith
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From Jabernut, on 5-17-2000, 13:40:43 PST

>This may sound really weird, but I have a Sis controller
>and it worked for me. All I did (In device manager)
>And "Properties" of my (Pri IDE channel), was change the
>setting from "DMA if available" to "PIO only", click OK-
>Then change it back to "DMA if available" and click OK
>again. All the sudden it enabled my DMA which XP had
>decided to disable. No restart or anything. Don't ask me
>why. Your right, PIO sucks- My computer ran like crap
>until I stumbled on to this. Again, I can't imagine how
>something so simple worked, but it did- Good luck

It surely did. A remarkable difference in performance.

Regards, and thanks,

Allan Smith
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