AHHH! Nforce 2 EIDE driver won't let me pick Ultra DMA 6 (133)

[Tejas]

I have a brand new Samsung EIDE HD that can do Ultra DMA Mode 6 (133)
on an Asus A78NX Deluxe (Nforce2 motherboard) that supports Ultra DMA
Mode 6. However, when I go into device manager, the drop down in the
NForce EIDE driver only shows Ultra DMA Mode 5 and below. Is there
something I'm doing wrong, this is pissing me off because the mobo
supposedly supports 133 and so do my drives but I can't select it!

HELP!

 

[Anthony Procissi [MSFT]]

This is a bit of a shot in the dark, but the Via chipset had Ultra DMA Mode
6 problems...
See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;327805
You might try updating your IDE drivers (which was the via fix).

You can get an updated nForce "unified drive" from nVidia.
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

There is also a System Utility for download at the same link, it might be of
use.

Hope that helps,

 

[Tejas]

Hi,

Try this way,

Boot in safe mode and login as administrator.
Go to device manager and double click the IDE/ATA ATAPI controllers ,
Right click on the primary IDE controllers/properties/drivers
Click update drivers, click install the drivers automatically, click next, let window search and install the drivers than reboot.

Peter


----- Tejas wrote: -----

I have a brand new Samsung EIDE HD that can do Ultra DMA Mode 6 (133)
on an Asus A78NX Deluxe (Nforce2 motherboard) that supports Ultra DMA
Mode 6. However, when I go into device manager, the drop down in the
NForce EIDE driver only shows Ultra DMA Mode 5 and below. Is there
something I'm doing wrong, this is pissing me off because the mobo
supposedly supports 133 and so do my drives but I can't select it!

HELP!

I was thinking about that but I already have The latest unified
drivers from Nvidia (3.13 IDE driver). This driver doesn't have a
Primary/Secondary IDE in Device Manager. It just shows up as one
thing. I've tried re-installing it and it re-installs fine but I can
still only select Ultra DMA Mode 5...

I guess it's not a huge deal but this board has SATA and I got an EIDE
driver instead cuz I figured ATA133 is close enough to SATA...now I'm
stuck using ATA100.

BTW, people who have nvidia boards should download that system
utility..it provides info on all your components, drivers and actually
allows for overclocking of the FSB, memory, etc on the fly.

Anyone else have ideas about the Ultra DMA problem?!?!