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You may want to upgrade motherboard drivers and check your BIOS version to make the UDMA drives run with UDMA rather than PIO (limited to 16.7Mb/s). Although this is great (to know that your drives are working at peak efficiency, Windows (any version) is rubbish with any hardware except controllerless stuff, that you will not notice much improvement by enabling UDMA anyway. It's a good idea to try though, then at least you're giving Windows (which doesn't deserve) a fighting chance to impress you.
Summary: How do I get my second HD to run on DMA mode. Everytime I try to change it in disk management and reboot so the changes takes affect, the HD dissappears. If I change it back to PIO mode and reboot I c...
Summary: I recently reformatted my computer and now my two SATA drives are running in PIO mode. I tried to set them in BIOS, device mananger, registry changes, uninstalling/reinstalling via Windows2k, etc. I h...
Summary: i have an sd-11 fic motherboard, an athlon 500, 80 pin udma66 cable and wd 13 gb udma compliant (udma/66) hd. whenever i run certain apps. (unreal, war ftp etc.) windows will kick into pio mode and i...
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