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Enabling DMA in Windows 2000 with the MSI K7T Pro2A and VIA 4.28a??

Imaginer

Imaginer

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When I installed the multimedia center 7.0 on Epsilon (see rigs) I get through the check point and it says there maybe a possibility that DMA is not enabled on my Plextor or Pioneer DVD.

Now, I can enable it under the Windows 98 setup of the VIA 4.28a. But I hardly seen such an option for the Windows 2000 setup.

How do I go about doing this? Thanks in Advance. 🙂
 
As far as I know, there is not an option for turning DMA on or off for any drives or controllers, although I think it is on by default for all drives that support it. Make sure its enabled in the BIOS tho.

BTW, I didn't get hat message when I installed ATI multimedia center in win2k, but I did get it in win98se until I fooled with the BIOS. Didn't seem to matter either way.
 
yea, my plextor wasn't working correctly because it was set on PIO only. But now, since i've changed it, it works fine.

Here's how you change it in 2000...

1) Start -> Settings -> Control Panel
2) Click System
3) Click the Hardware Tab
4) Click Device Manager
5) Click the + sign for the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
6) Now, right click on the listings below and just change them on the pull down menu.

Hope this works
Nivek

 
I have been playing around with VIA 4in 1 and ATI multimedia center for sometime and I have learnt a few things. First of all if you are doing a fresh install of win2k before installing anything else after you boot your computer for first time after loading the OS load the inf driver. You can uncheck the AGP and IDE driver while loading the 4 in 1 or just load it separately with the individual inf driver. Restart. Use the AGP registry patch for athlon provided by microsoft. Then load the AGP and IDE driver in the VIA 4in 1 4.28. Restart. Load the latest driver for your ATI graphics card (I have Rage FURY PRO). Then load ATI multimedia center 7.0. and yes after all thses it will show that DMA for hard drive is not enabled. But don't bother about it. Your system will work fine. After loading the via 4in 1 4.28, the hard drive performance is excellent. I checked with benchmark (Dr. hard ware and performance test). Both shows average read/write speed is about 25/28 mbps with the max speed touching 35/50 mbps occasionlly with an orinary ATA 66 maxtor (not a IBM 75 GXP) drive. That is incredible. and the system is stable. If your DMA is not enabled (as indicated by ATI multimedia) it's impossible to get that performance. And "Dr hardware" will clearly show the data tranfer mode is UDMA if you still have any doubt.
 
DJ is right I have almost the same exact system as you do, and the patch sets all the drivers to DMA mode.
 
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