P4P800 and DVD player stuck in PIO mode

[Rick]

Just installed an Asus P4P800-d board with a 3g p-4 with two Hard
drives on IDE 1, and 1ea. HD on SATA 1 and 2. All these drives operate
normally.

My Nec 2500 dvd burner is installed as a master on IDE 1 and I for the
life of me cannot get it out of PIO mode, which gives me crappy
performance from it.

I installed the latest MB chipset drivers, deleted the Drive and
controller from device manager and let it re-detect, but it's still in
PIO mode. I even tried a different ribbon cable to the drive.

Any ideas how to get it to udma mode?

I use this computer as my Home Theater PC, and the stuttering I'm
getting while playing DVD's is not acceptable.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, Rick

 

[Bob Knowlden]

I assume that you're running some version of XP. See:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817472#kb4

"IDE ATA and ATAPI disks use PIO mode after multiple time-out or CRC errors
occur"

Re-installing the controllers worked for me, but there are other fixes here
that might be worth a try. Good luck.

Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

 

[Rick]

Oh crap, forgot to list the OS. It is XP, and I will check out that
link, thanks.