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 have been unable to get them back to DMA, and as a result my computer is sluggish and useless for most of my daily computing needs. I have noticed that in device mananger under the IDE ATA/ATAPI controller option I have 6 items loaded. 3 Primary and 3 Secondary. I formatted twice and this continues to display this way. (see Attached JPG). 1 Primary IDE ..Device 0 = Not Applicable ..Device 1 = Not Applicable 2 Primary IDE ..Device 0 = PIO Mode (set to DMA if available) ..Device 1 = Not Applicable 3 Primary IDE ..Device 0 = Ultra DMA Mode ..Device 1 = Ultra DMA Mode 1 Secondary IDE ..Device 0 = Not Applicable ..Device 1 = Not Applicable 2 Secondary IDE ..Device 0 = PIO Mode (set to DMA if available) ..Device 1 = Not Applicable 3 Secondary IDE ..Device 0 = Not Applicable ..Device 1 = Not Applicable I'm running: MSI RS480M2-IL Xpress200 (w/ ATI RS480 chipset - fullupdated as well as bios) CPU AMD 64 3000+ Athalon 1 GIG DDRAM Roswill | RW400/1024KITDP SATA HD 80 GB - SEAGAT SATA HD 200 GB - SEAGATE DVD-ROM LITE ON DVD+/-RW 16x|NEC WINDOWS 2000 w/sp4 (fully updated) If anyone knows of a good computer group where I could post my system specs and my question I would greatly appreciate a reply to this thread.

Question-M again -- adding on.. I just unplugged everything except for my main SATA, rebooted and uninstalled all 6 devices from windows, rebooted again - when windows initalized all 6 devices. I don't understand that because I only have 1 thing plugged in. I'm wondering now if this isn't a win2k issue, but if something has gone wrong with my mobo. If anyone has info that will help me, I would greatly appreciate reading it. Thanks

If the Primary and secondary IDE channels are enabled in the BIOS they will be installed. If you have any optical drives installed you need these enabled. Did you install the chipset drivers for your MBoard. Not sure with your rig if you also need to install the SATA/RAID drivers at the start of installation or not.