Summary: Here is the problem. A while back I put in a 160GB WD HDD but could not install SP1 or 2 because everytime I did my primary IDE controller would get l...
Summary: Alright so a while back i cleaned out my pc of dust b/c it was getting really dirty. Plugged everything back in turned it on and was greeted by a blac...
Summary: You got your wires and pins mixed up. There are two basic cables, an 80 wire and a 40 wire but both use 40 pin connectors. The 80 wire is used for UDM...
Summary: Can you burn from a HD that is setup as UltraDMA Master on IDE Primary, and a CDRW setup as PIO Slave on IDE Secondary? The reason I ask is because I ...
Summary: My problem seems to be with my motherboard/ide cable.. I don't know. I recently had a 40GB Maxtor go bad. I replaced it with a 120GB Maxtor, with 8MB...
Summary: About a week ago my computer decided it would start to have some mouse and audio glitches, they would both stutter about once a second and sometimes s...
Summary: MORE INFORMATION - how many CD/DVD drives do you have? Is this a file on a CD or is it on the hard drive? If it is a CD file have you tried the other ...
Summary: I just got a Seagate Hornet travan tape drive (20GB) and it seems that I can't enable DMA mode with it. I'm wondering if atapi travan tape drives are ...
Summary: I had a similiar problem, where my hdd was only working in PIO mode 4. Someone here suggested I uninstall the IDE channel in device manager, reboot an...
Summary: The amount of ram. Win 98/98SE works as well as it can with 128 mb or more - in testing I did any less than 96mb will not allow the hard drive to achi...
Summary: Some Acer or AOpen CD drives have a jumper marked "T" which is factory installed and sets the drive into PIO mode. If you have one of these, just pull...
Summary: I hope SOMEONE here can shed some light on this subject as I have exhausted all my resources to no avail. I am running two drives on IDE channel 1 in ...
Summary: Thanks for all of the responses. I forgot to mention that the SATA drive is divided into 3 partitions. All files on all drives are NTFS. All 3 part...
Summary: I am having problems with both my CDROMs. The DVD does not recognise any CD's i put in it. Everything else seems OK, shows up in My Computer as a DVD ...
Summary: I bought three 800MB blank cd’s, but Nero tells me that they all have only 700MB. What can I do to make my cd-writer recognize them? I have another p...
Summary: Waitaminute. If both your IDE drive and DVD drive are in PIO mode, that's a different matter. Have you loaded the main chipset drivers for your mboard...
Summary: On my Dell, I have a DVD/CD drive. It often slips from DMA mode into PIO mode which screws up the playing of DVDs and the speed of the drive. Each tim...
Summary: I have the Compaq Armada M700/PIII 850Mhz/576Mb Ram with 14,1TFT Display and ATI Mobility 8MB RAM with TV-Out Connector. So, my laptop CANNOT MAXIMIZE...
Summary: Alright, I've solved the problem, with the help of someone from a different forum. The cause of the problem was that my main hard drive was being set ...
Summary: I have recently installed my OS (Win XP), and my secondary eslave hard disk work only on PIO mode. As much motherboard as the own disc utilities, iden...
Summary: All the 80 wire ones I've seen have a blue connector for the mboard end of the cable, the other two on a three connector cable may be both black (UDMA...
Summary: Here's another 'possible' fix for DMA problems: "DMA re-enable Windows XP is the operating system A CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive, which is known to suppor...
Summary: Hello everyone. I am using a Dell 210L, Celeron at 3.06ghz. When installing games from my DVD writer, there was crc errors, i manage to fix this prob...
Summary: Hi, after many years of poor performance with optical drives(both dvd and cd burners) I have concluded it's my computer that is screwed, not the drive...
Summary: How old are these computers and how much have the burner drives been used? Optical drives don't last forever. Have you tried using a laser lens cleani...
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