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To DMA or not to DMA
Name: jimi_l Date: December 31, 2001 at 14:59:05 Pacific
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To enable it or not,that is the question. I understand what it does I was just curious if I'm better with it off or on.My kids used PC we just got had it not checked off and I wondered if it really made much difference. PII-400 Win ME 128MHz 10 GB ata 100? or possibly 66 What say you all?? Jimi_l
Name: fred Date: December 31, 2001 at 17:12:53 Pacific
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DMA can significantly speed up your computer but not all hardware supports it. Check the following site, before you continue down the page check out the second line.
http://tweakcentral.com/dma.htm
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Response Number 2
Name: jimi_l Date: December 31, 2001 at 17:19:17 Pacific
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Thanks Fred, Happy New Year!! Jimi_l
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Response Number 3
Name: guru Date: January 1, 2002 at 03:45:15 Pacific
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that machine should handle dma quite well,jimi. by all means go for it.
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Response Number 4
Name: jimbo1 Date: January 1, 2002 at 06:52:34 Pacific
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I have enabled dma on my cd drives and hard drive.The system is faster and data transfers to the cdrw are much faster .Me is configured for the lowest common denominator on install..enabling dma is the first adjustment that i made to the system.
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Response Number 5
Name: jimi_l Date: January 1, 2002 at 08:14:28 Pacific
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FYI I enabled it(DMA) and immeadtly pulled a big fat warning that components may not be compatable!! SO... I did it anyway :) It seems fine but no noticable improvement in system performance. Thanks all Jimi_l
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Response Number 6
Name: jimbo1 Date: January 1, 2002 at 09:06:34 Pacific
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Sorry should have mentioned the warning standard windows stuff to intimidate the unknowing.
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Response Number 7
Name: Sanjaya Sugiarto (by Sanjaya) Date: January 2, 2002 at 09:11:49 Pacific
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DMA does effect the speed of ur HD. You can do benchmark with a tool called SpeedDisk 32. Please doing search from Google.
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Response Number 8
Name: Chuck Date: February 8, 2002 at 12:57:37 Pacific
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Oh Oh.. I tried the DMA turn on and I think I turned the system off. It geve me the message about some machines may not support DMA and the option would clear itself. The system restarted but would only go into the "SAFE" mode which doesnt show the DMA option.
Is there any way for me to edit this option so that I can restart Windows ME into normal operation???
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