DVD drive not working with mobo drivers PLS help

[BUNTER78]

Hi All,
after loading the motherboard drivers (epox 8K7A) 'VIA busmaster PCI IDE Driver' the install screen gives a option for enabling DMA (whatever that is) and mentions it will inprove performace. After enabling the DVD will not read and shows 'illegal operation will close..' the DVD is a Creative 12speed. have I done something wrong...or can i simply not enable it.
also while trying to load the '686 A/B audio driver' (on mobo cd) it requests the WIN 98SE CD and tries and fails to find a file called KS.SYS is this important or should I just 'skip file' or can i get this file anywhere

thanks again
Anthony

 

[Operandi]

So drive works fine without DMA but once its enabled it doesn?t? U doesn?t really ?need? DMA enabled, DMA stands for direct memory access. It allows the drive to directly access the Northbridge/memory with going through the CPU. I don?t have any experience with that creative drive but an old pioneer I had wouldn?t work with DMA on my VIA based MB in my Athlon system but worked fin in a Intel based Celeron/BX MB. You might want to check Creatives page and c if they have firmware update for that drive.

As for that file KS.sys, yeah u prolly need it. It's prolly there somewhere, did u try browsing for manually? Check all the directories that your drivers created when/if extracted/unzipped your drivers as well as the windows cd, also check you current directory where u have windows installed c:\windows and windows\system it might already be installed, stupid I know?. But it may work.