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Hard drive stuck in PIO mode

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Sleek

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First, my specs:

8RDA+ latest BIOS
2500+ Barton
GeForce 4 Ti4400
Sound Blaster Live! Value
Western Digital 80gb, 7200rpm, 8mb cache
512mb OCZ PC3200
Windows 2000
Latest nForce drivers

Now, it started when I had to put my sound card into a different slot because it was on the same IRQ as the video card. (It was in the last slot, moved it to the third PCI slot from the top) The IRQ conflict went away but now my hard drive seems to be stuck in PIO mode. I've tried telling it to go into DMA mode in Windows, I restart, but it's still in PIO. I have IDE DMA transfer access enabled in the BIOS. I also tried reinstalling the latest nForce drivers, no go.

Never mind, I fixed it by uninstalling the IDE device and letting Win2k reinstall it.
 
Just for future reference, when 2 or more devices are using the same IRQ number this is not a bad thing. Its not a conflict.

Its a required part of the PCI spec. Its how all modern operating systems and motherboards work.
 
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