Enabling DMA

[Guest]

It has been taking me 10+ hours to burn a DVD, and after some researching I
have figured out that it is because DMA is not enabled on my devices
(including my hard drives). So I go to device manager and there is no
advanced tab, I only see General, Driver, Details and Resources. I have
uninstalled and reinstalled the ATA/IDE devices but still no advanced tab. I
have scanned for viruses and do not appear to have any, and I am current on
all windows updates. I am stumped. Anyone else have any suggestions?

 

[Guest]

That's what I did--- I opened the properties box under the primary, secondary
and the Intel 82801DB Ultra ATA controller, under the properties the only
tabs I see are General, Driver, Details and Resources. I also checked the
BIOS, and it seems as though everything is enabled.... see this is why I am
so stumped....

 

[Guest]

ok somehow now the tabs have changed and I have the DMA if available, and it
is checked but it says that the current transfer mode is PIO, what exactly do
I look for in the BIOS?

Thanks!

 

[Jim]

It has been taking me 10+ hours to burn a DVD, and after some researching
I
have figured out that it is because DMA is not enabled on my devices
(including my hard drives). So I go to device manager and there is no
advanced tab, I only see General, Driver, Details and Resources. I have
uninstalled and reinstalled the ATA/IDE devices but still no advanced tab.
I
have scanned for viruses and do not appear to have any, and I am current
on
all windows updates. I am stumped. Anyone else have any suggestions?

At the device manager prompt, select either primary or secondary channel.
That panel has the advanced settings box. There is a box to select the
transfer mode, and one selection is DMA if available.
If the transfer mode is nevertheless, PIO, then check that the channel is
not disabled in the BIOS. Evidently, XP will use PIO mode even if the
channel is disabled, but it will not use DMA.
Jim

 

[Jim]

ok somehow now the tabs have changed and I have the DMA if available, and
it
is checked but it says that the current transfer mode is PIO, what exactly
do
I look for in the BIOS?

Make certain that all of the IDE channels are enabled. That includes both
of the primary channels and whichever of the slave channels that your
computer is using,
That was what was wrong with my computer.
Jim

 

[Guest]

ok I checked my BIOS and the CD burner and DVD burner have DMA and PIO
listed, DMA is set to 2 and PIO to 4 (whatever that means) and I cannot
change the numbers-- if I do as soon as I move to another field it reverts
back. And the 2 hard drives (which I would also like to set to DMA) have 5
and 4 PIO over DMA. HELP!

 

[Quaoar]

ok I checked my BIOS and the CD burner and DVD burner have DMA and PIO
listed, DMA is set to 2 and PIO to 4 (whatever that means) and I
cannot change the numbers-- if I do as soon as I move to another
field it reverts back. And the 2 hard drives (which I would also
like to set to DMA) have 5 and 4 PIO over DMA. HELP!

Describe the computer, mainboard, processor, Bios vendor and version,
etc. Is this a new computer or an old computer? Do you have Intel
Application Accelerator installed? Have you ever installed the chipset
drivers? Mainboard drivers?

Q

 

[Guest]

ok some of that I can answer...

I built the computer in late Jan early Feb 2004. It is a ASUS P4PE-X
motherboard, with an intel pentium processor-- 2.6 ghz. I have no idea what
BIOS or BIOS version it is, but I can find out I think, I do have the
application accelerator, i installed the chipset drivers and board drivers
when I built the computer.

 

[Norm]

The Intel Application Accelerator supecedes DMA settings. Start it and
select your drive, then Transfer Mode Limit under Parameters and select the
setting you want.

Norm

rlnlandal wrote:
| ok some of that I can answer...
|
| I built the computer in late Jan early Feb 2004. It is a ASUS P4PE-X
| motherboard, with an intel pentium processor-- 2.6 ghz. I have no
| idea what BIOS or BIOS version it is, but I can find out I think, I
| do have the application accelerator, i installed the chipset drivers
| and board drivers when I built the computer.
|
| "Quaoar" wrote:
|
|| rlnlandal wrote:
||| ok I checked my BIOS and the CD burner and DVD burner have DMA and
||| PIO listed, DMA is set to 2 and PIO to 4 (whatever that means) and I
||| cannot change the numbers-- if I do as soon as I move to another
||| field it reverts back. And the 2 hard drives (which I would also
||| like to set to DMA) have 5 and 4 PIO over DMA. HELP!
|||
||| "Jim" wrote:
|||
||||
|||| ||||| ok somehow now the tabs have changed and I have the DMA if
||||| available, and it
||||| is checked but it says that the current transfer mode is PIO, what
||||| exactly do
||||| I look for in the BIOS?
|||| Make certain that all of the IDE channels are enabled. That
|||| includes both of the primary channels and whichever of the slave
|||| channels that your computer is using,
|||| That was what was wrong with my computer.
|||| Jim
||
|| Describe the computer, mainboard, processor, Bios vendor and version,
|| etc. Is this a new computer or an old computer? Do you have Intel
|| Application Accelerator installed? Have you ever installed the
|| chipset drivers? Mainboard drivers?
||
|| Q

 

[Guest]

Intel Application Accelerator wasn't working so I reinstalled it.... I went
in and looked at the 2 hardrives and the CD-RW and DVD-RW and I saw for
current transfer mode-- UDMA 5 for the hard disks and UDMA 2 for the 2 RW
drives. So I am back to square one. I burned a DVD overnight--- it took 9
hours and 10 mins. That ust doesn't seem right to me.

When I first started burning DVD's it took like an hour MAX and now it takes
10 times that... not right....

 

[Quaoar]

Intel Application Accelerator wasn't working so I reinstalled it....
I went
in and looked at the 2 hardrives and the CD-RW and DVD-RW and I saw
for
current transfer mode-- UDMA 5 for the hard disks and UDMA 2 for the
2 RW
drives. So I am back to square one. I burned a DVD overnight--- it
took 9
hours and 10 mins. That ust doesn't seem right to me.

When I first started burning DVD's it took like an hour MAX and now it
takes
10 times that... not right....

I think you should check your board docs and make sure you have the
appropriate drivers, if any are required. Go to Intel and download the
chipset identification utility. Run the ID utility and then download
from Intel the chipset drivers for the identified chipset. Uninstall
the IAA. Install any board drivers, the chipset drivers. Boot into BIOS
setup and verify that both IDE channels are identified and set up
correctly (whatever your BIOS has settings for), the drives are
identified and are on the correct IDE channels. Then try the burning
again.

Q

 

[Guest]

I think you should check your board docs and make sure you have the
appropriate drivers, if any are required. Go to Intel and download the
chipset identification utility. Run the ID utility and then download
from Intel the chipset drivers for the identified chipset. Uninstall
the IAA. Install any board drivers, the chipset drivers. Boot into BIOS
setup and verify that both IDE channels are identified and set up
correctly (whatever your BIOS has settings for), the drives are
identified and are on the correct IDE channels. Then try the burning
again.

Q

Ok I downloaded the Intel thing and there are no new drivers for my chipset.
There are also no new updates for my BIOS.

The Application Accelerator says that I have UDMA 5 and UDMA 2 enabled for
the hardisks and RW drives respectively. Three is no limit on the transfer
mode limit (and I couldn't change it anyway-- the Application Accelerator
doesn't let me change anything).

The BIOS recognizes both IDE drives, has them set to PIO 5 and DMA 4 for the
disks, and PIO 4 and DMA 2 for the RW drives, and it cannot be changed.

I am current on all Windows updates and I have tried a registry edit I found
online, and that still didn't fix the problem.

Any other suggestions? I am getting desperate... I am thisclose to bringing
it into the local computer place and paying through the nose for them to fix
it.

 

[Quaoar]

Ok I downloaded the Intel thing and there are no new drivers for my
chipset.
There are also no new updates for my BIOS.

The Application Accelerator says that I have UDMA 5 and UDMA 2 enabled
for
the hardisks and RW drives respectively. Three is no limit on the
transfer
mode limit (and I couldn't change it anyway-- the Application
Accelerator
doesn't let me change anything).

The BIOS recognizes both IDE drives, has them set to PIO 5 and DMA 4
for the
disks, and PIO 4 and DMA 2 for the RW drives, and it cannot be
changed.

I am current on all Windows updates and I have tried a registry edit I
found
online, and that still didn't fix the problem.

Any other suggestions? I am getting desperate... I am thisclose to
bringing
it into the local computer place and paying through the nose for them
to fix
it.

Dunno, except that XP will fail DMA if the drive is faulty. BTW, I
really think that you should uninstall Intel Application Accelerator.
It is not necessary with XP and has been the root cause of many system
errors reported on forums. When IAA is installed, it normally prevents
enumeration of the DMA modes in Device Manager, IIRC. Why you are
seeing these modes indicates to me that something is wrong (or your
version of IAA is different). Note that IAA installs Intel's own DMA
system that is different than the normal that you would see with the
chipset drivers. That is why I suggested uninstalling IAA, which should
replace the previous IDE ATA/ATAPI drivers and perhaps make things right
again. Reinstalling the correct chipset drivers provides some
protection from corruption in the replaced drivers after IAA is removed.

Q

 

[Guest]

WOO HOO!!! Getting rid of IAA worked!! I am now in DMA mode!! HOWEVER... it
still says it is going ot take 10 hours and 5 minutes to burn a dvd.... could
that be a problem with the burner-- in all reality is shouldn't be the burner
is les than 1 year old, a DL 16X burner, and didn't have that problem in the
beginning.... also could it be a software problem--- NERO?

Thanks so much! At least I have DMA now! You guys ROCK!

 

[Quaoar]

WOO HOO!!! Getting rid of IAA worked!! I am now in DMA mode!!
HOWEVER... it
still says it is going ot take 10 hours and 5 minutes to burn a
dvd.... could
that be a problem with the burner-- in all reality is shouldn't be the
burner
is les than 1 year old, a DL 16X burner, and didn't have that problem
in the
beginning.... also could it be a software problem--- NERO?

Thanks so much! At least I have DMA now! You guys ROCK!

Congrats! At the price of desktop DVD/CD writers - dual layer (if you
can afford the price) +R, -R, etc. at maybe $40, replacement is really
an option compared to the time and suffering of diagnosing what is
usually not really diagnosable. If you can borrow a known working drive
and install the drivers, that will be a good test also.

Q