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Problems with optical drives and PIO mode

jim1976

Platinum Member
The last days I noticed that Nero was burning too slow on my pc, and the buffer level was flactuating a lot.
I examined the issue and I saw that in device manager under IDE/ATAPI controllers both optical drives were under PIO mode though I had enabled the option "DMA if available"
In the bios as well everything is in auto mode as far as concerns the optical drives as it should be.
I tried numerous things , like putting another IDE cable, put them in the Jmicron Controller and even a registry hack that resets the values that sometimes windows place in drives to keep them in PIO mode for weird reasons.

My drives were working just fine in my previous mobo and they support DMA of course.

What is happening here? I'm very pissed with ASUS and this mobo. Practically all my IDE devices don't work with this mobo, and that includes one of my IDE HDDs I had to remove.

Any ideas?
 
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