• Welcome to TechPowerUp Forums, Guest! Please check out our forum guidelines for info related to our community.

Extremely Slow....

V

vito7766

Joined
Feb 14, 2006
Messages
63 (0.01/day)
System Specs
Processor AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 1GHz FSB 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 Processor
Motherboard ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard
Cooling Stock Cooling
Memory CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200
Video Card(s) SAPPHIRE 100600SR Radeon X800PRO 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card
Storage Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
Display(s) Dell P1230
Audio Device(s) Realtek ALC850
Power Supply 550w
Software Windows XP Proffesional with SP2
For some reason my hard drive switched from Dma to Pio mode and I can't switch it back. Any suggestions? I've looked all over the bios, nothing, and the properties at the Device Manager say Dma if available.:confused: My computer went from booting in 35 seconds to 2-3 minutes.:banghead:
 
M

malware

New Member
Joined
Nov 7, 2004
Messages
5,422 (0.76/day)
Location
Bulgaria
System Specs
Processor Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 VID: 1.2125
Motherboard GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3P rev.2.0
Cooling Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme + Noctua NF-S12 Fan
Memory 4x1 GB PQI DDR2 PC2-6400
Video Card(s) Colorful iGame Radeon HD 4890 1 GB GDDR5
Storage 2x 500 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 32 MB RAID0
Display(s) BenQ G2400W 24-inch WideScreen LCD
Case Cooler Master COSMOS RC-1000 (sold), Cooler Master HAF-932 (delivered)
Audio Device(s) Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic + Logitech Z-5500 Digital THX
Power Supply Chieftec CFT-1000G-DF 1kW
Software Laptop: Lenovo 3000 N200 C2DT2310/3GB/120GB/GF7300/15.4"/Razer
First check in BIOS if the DMA access is enabled, then in windows delete the IDE channel(which your hdd is on), restart, wait windows to install the drivers and set to DMA if available again. It's common problem with hdd and cd-rom devices.
 
V

vito7766

Joined
Feb 14, 2006
Messages
63 (0.01/day)
System Specs
Processor AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 1GHz FSB 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 Processor
Motherboard ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard
Cooling Stock Cooling
Memory CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200
Video Card(s) SAPPHIRE 100600SR Radeon X800PRO 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card
Storage Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
Display(s) Dell P1230
Audio Device(s) Realtek ALC850
Power Supply 550w
Software Windows XP Proffesional with SP2
I already checked in the bios. But how do you delete the IDE channel. I can't wait until i get my 250g Sata hard drive.
 
M

malware

New Member
Joined
Nov 7, 2004
Messages
5,422 (0.76/day)
Location
Bulgaria
System Specs
Processor Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 VID: 1.2125
Motherboard GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3P rev.2.0
Cooling Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme + Noctua NF-S12 Fan
Memory 4x1 GB PQI DDR2 PC2-6400
Video Card(s) Colorful iGame Radeon HD 4890 1 GB GDDR5
Storage 2x 500 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 32 MB RAID0
Display(s) BenQ G2400W 24-inch WideScreen LCD
Case Cooler Master COSMOS RC-1000 (sold), Cooler Master HAF-932 (delivered)
Audio Device(s) Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic + Logitech Z-5500 Digital THX
Power Supply Chieftec CFT-1000G-DF 1kW
Software Laptop: Lenovo 3000 N200 C2DT2310/3GB/120GB/GF7300/15.4"/Razer
vito7766 said:
But how do you delete the IDE channel.
Click to expand...
Simply go to the device manager, then IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers.....click on the first or second IDE chan(where the hard is pluged) hit the delete key and confirm. After that just restart the OS, wait Windows to install the IDE drivers again and set to DMA if available.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top