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  1. 08-25-2003, 09:35 AM #1
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    DMA on CDRW

    Hi,

    I have a Dell 8250 with at CD burner installed and I cannot figure out how to enable DMA for the burner (This is under WindowsXP). Is DMA a setting that I would find in the OS? (Dell's bios lacks any helpful options for hardware configuration.)

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  2. 08-25-2003, 11:25 AM #2
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    You can find it in device manager under the IDE controller. It should also be in bios, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't in "auto."
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  3. 08-25-2003, 12:03 PM #3
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    thanks! i will give that a try
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  4. 08-25-2003, 05:43 PM #4
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    Setting the ide to DMA did not seem to force the drives to work on dma mode, they are still reported as running pio. anyway that I can force it to use dma?
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    I used to have similar problems with my hard drive. It's kinda fuzzy on exactly what causes this... but I have Creative's Live 5.1 sound card and when I took that out, it returned to that DMA mode! And I re-installed/inserted the card, and it was fine afterwards. XP still isn't perfect... Do you have any PCI cards installed? If so, try taking them out one by one and reboot to see if that does the trick.
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    Strange, I too have a Live! 5.1, maybe that is the problem. Thanks for the heads up
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  8. 08-26-2003, 08:41 AM #7
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    That PIO problem is a popular one in Windows XP. A common fix that works for a lot of people is to delete the IDE conroller in Device Manager and reboot so XP can redetect and reinstall it. Often it's reinstalled with the DMA option.
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    Originally posted by Nemesys
    That PIO problem is a popular one in Windows XP. A common fix that works for a lot of people is to delete the IDE conroller in Device Manager and reboot so XP can redetect and reinstall it. Often it's reinstalled with the DMA option.
    Another reason why this will happen is if you have your CD burner and HD on same IDE if so put one on one and one on the other. Then the settings will stay
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    You should also make sure you have the latest IDE drivers. You can download the Hyperion drivers from VIA Arena.

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