815 Woes

[BatmanNate]

Strange things are brewing once more inside my PC. I recently decided to install the IDE controller drivers for the 815 chipset on my CUSL-2 in an attempt to solve my problem with Nero 5.5 sometimes defaulting my Pioneer 16x DVD to a 5x reader instead of a 40x, and this only happens sometimes, and is very bad for on the fly burns (5x obviously can't keep pace with 16x), however instead of resolving my problem, the drivers appear to have created new ones. Now, burning a cd takes between 60-90% of the CPU usage under Win2k, compared to a 10-30% before. I believe this may be because UDMA mode was enabled before and was disabled by installing the new drivers, but I cannot seem to find where to enable with the new ones. Any clues? All help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!

 

[shathal]

Re: UDMA drivers.

First off, these are supposed to be installed straight after the chipset drivers. In turn, the chipset drivers are the very first thing you install after the OS gives is "ready" - not Video-drivers, no DirectX upgradfe before that.

Install order should be:
* OS Install
* Install Chipset drivers (+reboots as necessary)
* Install ATA-storage drivers (+reboot(s) as necessary).

Doing these installs on a "non-clean" system can cause various problems & is generally not recommended.

Re: "Can't find DMA after installing ATA-storage drivers"
Intel (unlike Microsoft) have decided that DMA is a generally beneficial thing & enabled it by default. Because it's a good thing with HDD's and no-one would want to be without DMA, and there are no observed "legacy" issues with HD's (That's the reason M$ doesn't enable DMA by default. I am told this is to change with XP's final release), DMA is enabled by default.

However, in order to keep "users safe from themselves", They've removed the "DMA" tick-box - it is enabled by default, as I said. This isn't a problem really - you can get the DMA-box back, if you un-install the ATA-drivers.

You haven't mentioned what make your CD-Writer is - maybe it's got problems with DMA (I can't remember which brands usually do - sorry). Also - can you try using something other than Nero 5.5 - maybe that's the cause of your headaches?

I hope this helps you somewhat.

It's not a problem with the chipset, my stuff works fine .

 

[MulLa]

OH so it that why the DMA check box is greyed out after I have updated the drivers ^^

 

[shathal]

Glad I could be of some help .

 

[StrangeRanger]

Have you been happy with nero 5.5? I have found it to be nothing but a pain in the ass and have gone back to 5.0.4.4 or 4.8. Much better, especially since i don't like nero's wave editor or cover editor etc.
j

 

[shathal]

Agree - Nero 5.5 blows goat

Use something else, would be my counsel as well .