DMA trouble and other trouble

[airis2001]

I got a Yahmaha 16x cdrw last week and an ATI all-in-wonder Radeon 32mb agp V/c. I installed them both and then when i loaded up the ATi Tv software i was told that i did not have DMA enabled an this would degrade my capture preformance. i turned DMA and when I went to reboot, my system crashed BIG TIME. No mater what i did i was ony able to get in to safe mode. due to some data issues i could not reinstall windows with out losing a lot of needed info so I went out and got a maxtor 40 gig hd. I got back up and running but now i am scard to turn DMA back on. But when i use teh ditial VCR program from ATI i drop 22-25% of teh frames and teh video is jerky. I have an asus p2bf mobo. I also ran in to a new problam last night. i tried to make an audio cd and got 2 coasters. i think the problam might be that i have 3 hd's and the cdrw. The cd and the hd with the mp3 files being used are both on the secondary ide channel. could this be my probalm? should i swicth teh hd's around or move data? I also have a secons pci card 66 ata controler card that i could use on one of the hd's but i have had problams getting it up and running
Ari

 

[Duvie]

I would look at getting some of those devices off of sharing channels...use the ata66 controller or go get another one promise or maxtor...I had easy install with mine.

What speed is the proc.? And what settings are you using in video capture? My old amd 400 k6-2 couldn't do highest avi settings and would drop like 11 percent of the frames in the first couple of minutes at those high settings...I got a 750@825 TB and I could run full settings less than 1percent frames dropped but in long captures audio synch issues could arise...Then I got a TB 1100@1199 and I do not drop any frames and have not had any audio synch issues at the highest settings you can set, plus the screen plays smooth real time as I capture (no blank screen).

What is your Power supply and wattage? The more devices you have probably are drawing more juice could cause some problems as well...

Was that audio cd a on-the-fly dup or from mp3s on the HDD? Dma needs to be enabled to insure any tranfer at 16x...you may be able to burn at 2-4x with dma off...

 

[Duvie]

Also you may want to put that cd-rw as the master as some do not like being a slave...

 

[ISAslot]

Which ATI drivers, and what versions of MMC and DVD player?

Oh, and what sound card?

 

[Duvie]

Make sure in bios all your ide channels are set to auto for udma...

 

[airis2001]

I am running a p!!! 450@518 w/256 mb ram. Teh cd was being made from a set of mp3 files that were on teh hd that is set as teh mster on teh same chain as teh cdrw was on as slave
As for drivers, im running the most curent ati dirvers, not sure on cdrw.
Oh seperate question, I bought a 40 gig hd but when i formated it and stated using it, only 31 gig showed up. I know there is a bit of loss but 9 gigs? I was not able to use teh maxblst software that came with teh drive. It froze, I had to use fdisk and format from the files in the command directory of windows 98se
Ari

 

[Duvie]

Sounds like your mobo or bios doesn't support drives that large...go into dos and run powermax and its simple diagnostic test...it will tell you there.

Also read the manual...for non support of large drives you need to set the pins on the jumpers in a different configuration then run the maxblast software....


As for the proc. If you run high or highest settings I can see you dropping frames...around 22 percent, I don't know. 10 seems more right?

1) get that cd-rw as the master on the second channel...
2) check bios to make sure udma is enabled or set to auto on all the channels...
3) then check to enable dma in windows...

without it I highly doubt even reading off of the harddrive on the master channel you will get 16x burn...