Maxtor Drive DMA Conflict?

I have a second Maxtor 80GB drive installed in my EMachine system. The
problem is that whenever I run anything from the second drive, like
video (avi or Mpg or sound), whenever the drive light flashes, it
causes the video or sound to jerk. This occurs every 1 or 2 seconds. I
had this problem solved somehow before then a few days ago I upgraded
from XP home to XP Professional and the problem came back. Research
indicated it may be a DMA probem, can anyone help?

Thanks

John

See if this article applies


IDE ATA and ATAPI Disks Use PIO Mode After Multiple Time-Out or CRC Errors
Occur
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...kb;en-us;817472

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"John" <john@hokykoky.com> wrote in message
news:5a6d802f.0401102229.41afe94f@posting.google.com...
> I have a second Maxtor 80GB drive installed in my EMachine system. The
> problem is that whenever I run anything from the second drive, like
> video (avi or Mpg or sound), whenever the drive light flashes, it
> causes the video or sound to jerk. This occurs every 1 or 2 seconds. I
> had this problem solved somehow before then a few days ago I upgraded
> from XP home to XP Professional and the problem came back. Research
> indicated it may be a DMA probem, can anyone help?
>
> Thanks
>
> John

Hey thanks Jason, that helped - it was a PIO problem, I fixed by
updating the IDE drivers.

Thanks again



"Jason Tsang" <jason-onlineDEL@ETEmvps.org> wrote in message news:<eNO$kXB2DHA.2180@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>...
> See if this article applies
>
>
> IDE ATA and ATAPI Disks Use PIO Mode After Multiple Time-Out or CRC Errors
> Occur
> http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...kb;en-us;817472
>
> --
> Jason Tsang - Microsoft MVP
>
> Find out about the MS MVP Program -
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx
>
> "John" <john@hokykoky.com> wrote in message
> news:5a6d802f.0401102229.41afe94f@posting.google.com...
> > I have a second Maxtor 80GB drive installed in my EMachine system. The
> > problem is that whenever I run anything from the second drive, like
> > video (avi or Mpg or sound), whenever the drive light flashes, it
> > causes the video or sound to jerk. This occurs every 1 or 2 seconds. I
> > had this problem solved somehow before then a few days ago I upgraded
> > from XP home to XP Professional and the problem came back. Research
> > indicated it may be a DMA probem, can anyone help?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > John