How do you set and check DMA mode on an Asus A7V133

[nealh]

I know I installed DMA mode when I did the Via 4n1 4.29 drivers with W98SE...

My HDD is Maxtor 30gb...under device manader there is no way to check DMA mode on my HDD..there is no check box for DMA like with my cdrom and cdrw

I am running the mAxtor on my Promise controller as an ATA100 drive

Is there a way to check DMA mode???

 

[bluesky]

Do you notice any problem like extreme sluggishness or very low number on test score?
If you don't, don't worry about it.
I don't have the dma check box either on my Maxtor dmp 60 drive.

 

[heng1028]

i felt that but i can get it solved

 

[hclarkjr]

if the hard drive is on the promise controller DMA is enabled automaticly when windows loads via the promise driver you installed.

 

[nealh]

thanks

 

[heng1028]

but i feel sllugishness when i put my drives on the Promise ATA100 controller

 

[bluesky]

Hey, Heng.
Are you running your system on 133mhz fsb?
If you do, is it jumperfree mode?

 

[heng1028]

yup
the mobo come default with jumperfree

running 145 now
will do 150 but my ram can't stand it

 

[bluesky]

What did you change on bios?
CPU frequency, ram, and mutiplier anything else?
Some reason, mine doesn't post if I change those.
Thanks.

 

[heng1028]

i changed the FSB
the latency to 2-2-2
and that is it

 

[bluesky]

Don't you have any problem w/ vcore?
I'm getting warning message on Pc Probe, 'it's over threshhold, I'm getting 3.632 on 3.3 default.
Is there any fix?

I'm running 133x7.5 on my tbird 1gig.
Thanks.

 

[heng1028]

the default jumper is set to 3.56

just goto the jumper and set it to 3.3v

i have close the L7 bridge so i dun need to mess around with the vcore

i just set it to auto

 

[bluesky]

Do you know what's the highest accetable voltage for this?

 

[bluesky]

Heng.
It stopped giving the warning message.
I changed the jumper to 3.3v and I guess it's fine now.
Thanks again.

 

[heng1028]

i set it to auto and it gives me 1.92v

i guess i can get extra juice from my proc with a little more voltage

 

[raz]

Didn't you get DMAtool with the 4-in-1 drivers? Just open that and it'll tell ya if DMA is enabled.