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UDMA problems
Name: Will Date: December 5, 1998 at 04:45:25 Pacific
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Since upgrading to Windows 98, I can't get UDMA support to work, it has to be disabled in the BIOS otherwise windows locks up when loading. I have Maxtor Diamond max Hard drive,Sony CD-ROM drive and a QDI motherboard.
I am having the same problem. Have found no answer yet.
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Response Number 2
Name: Joao S Baptista Date: April 6, 1999 at 13:08:00 Pacific
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Mine doesn't lock on startup but sometimes freezes. I don't know if this is a Maxtor problem, but the fact is that a lot of Maxtor owners do have problems with UDMA.
I bought a special UltraDMA cable (ATAS) but it didn't work. Don't know where the problem is. I'm using an ASUS TX97-E and a 233MMX.
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Response Number 3
Name: J. D. Scogin Date: May 3, 1999 at 00:12:30 Pacific
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This page may help. Check it out. http://www.webberpro.com/sales/udma.html
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Response Number 4
Name: Frodoh Baggins Date: March 28, 2000 at 13:09:18 Pacific
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The problem is in the Viachipset I belive....if the asus has via im on th money/...ive been doin the runaround with a Qdi board,no udma....recently they released a udpate driver...caused my machine to start chuggin real slow...dropouts in audio software consistently...qdi is a lame asian site,(lotsa typos and grammer spoofs) so I highly doubt anyone with via chipset ona board wiol get satisfaction from them...a good point to ponder is this...try to judge a motherboard(or any other component for that matter) company by their web site proficiency...lol ...seems to work tho anywho the udma problem is the viachip and sumthin bout the pci bus
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Response Number 5
Name: Mike H. Date: April 21, 2000 at 09:23:20 Pacific
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I have been having the same problem for some time myself and i found a strange yet simple solution. I found that if i make my BIOS auto find my hard drive insted of pre setting it my system boots without any problems. Im not sure why this is the case but its works for me. I think maybe the Award BIOS working in conjunction with a VIA chipset has something to do with it. Or perhaps UDMA needs a 350+ procesor in order to work properly. Also i found before i discoverd this that when UDMA is enabled in windows and i reboot the system and when it didn't start and had to reboot again when the startup screen popped up i selected Normal startup and it continued to boot properly. I use a F.I.C Mother board with Award BIOS and Windows 98 SE with UDMA drivers for the VIA chipset from http://www.via.com.tw/drivers/index.htm the file called IDE Busmaster 580_2147.exe I also found a driver from http://www.highpoint-tech.com I hope this might help you all some.
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Response Number 6
Name: Dive Fox Date: August 21, 2000 at 06:44:19 Pacific
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It's the Award and the VIA chipset.
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Response Number 7
Name: Violent_J Date: September 26, 2000 at 10:40:05 Pacific
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well i say we all stop buying via chipset based boards, i have two of them, the are junk, anyone want to buy them!!! haha, screw via, i hate them, let's go buy a cyrix cpu, hahah
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