i just had a DVD Burner installed and im getting a popup window saying >> This application has detected that your drive is not DMA (direct memory access) mode.To improve your system performance we suggest you to enable DMA for all your drives. Can someone please tell me how to enable DMA. lasttime

Here is some reading, use the one you understand best. The Windoze XP IDE Transfer Mode Failback “Feature” & Fix http://users.bigpond.net.au/ninjaduck/itserviceduck/udma_fix/ UDMA à PIO | DUCK’S BLOG ======================================= Problems enabling DMA on IDE drives http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/windowsxp/articles/249/1/Problems-enabling-DMA-on-IDE-drives ====================================== IDE ATA and ATAPI disks use PIO mode after multiple time-out or CRC errors occur http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=817472 ==================================== DMA Mode for ATA/ATAPI Devices in Windows XP http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/tech/storage/IDE-DMA.mspx Enabling DMA in XP http://www.blackmaxpc.com/Guides/DMA.htm http://www.xtremepccentral.com/foru...9/2002/05/1/885 http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/tech/storage/IDE-DMA.asp http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=7625 http://www.optorite.com/manual/English/manual/dma.htm Problems enabling DMA in XP http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=6645 http://www.compguysinc.com/techweb/hardware/dma66.shtml

If you are using a Dell System you can download a file from support.dell.com called PIOtoDMA... Run this file and see what happens (when you run this file you wont see any message on the screen, wait a few seconds and restart the system)... I am not sure if this file works for any other computer... Ideally it should, but not sure though. So hopefully you are using a Dell Computer