I have a Tyan Tiger 133 dual CPU MB that uses the VIA chipset. I was wondering how to turn on DMA for my IDE drives as this appears to not be on right now. I have installed the VIA 4in1 drivers.
This was a painful operation and caused Windows to crash and become corrupted so I'm not sure how correctly they are installed now. The Device Manager does say they are installed and being used but their settings has nothing regarding DMA.
The reason I thing DMA isn't on is because the system seems quite slow when it is doing heavy disk I/O (but low CPU) activities. The recent example was rippind a DVD to a VOB file. Task manager showed minimal CPU usage (~3%) but everything on the system was very slow. This is with Dual PIII 600s.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
This was a painful operation and caused Windows to crash and become corrupted so I'm not sure how correctly they are installed now. The Device Manager does say they are installed and being used but their settings has nothing regarding DMA.
The reason I thing DMA isn't on is because the system seems quite slow when it is doing heavy disk I/O (but low CPU) activities. The recent example was rippind a DVD to a VOB file. Task manager showed minimal CPU usage (~3%) but everything on the system was very slow. This is with Dual PIII 600s.
Any ideas would be appreciated.