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Windows ME and DMA

K

kf9oa

Junior Member
Hi,

Ok, I am blind, how do I tell if ME has my hard disk and DVD drive in DMA mode instead of PIO mode?

Also, since the real nice software that AnanTech uses to benchmark systems costs a lot of dollars, is there something that is free that I can use to check my machines performance? Hard disk, CPU RAM.

amd 900
mis kt7pro 2a
asus 7700dlx
ibm deskstar
toshiba 12xdvd

Boy it was fun to build a machine again...

73 KF9OA (any other hams out there?)🙂
 
To tell if your HDD or CD-ROM/DVD are using DMA - go to Control Panel -> System -> Device Maneger

Select your drive and click properties... there you will see the DMA check box - if it is checked, then your drive uses DMA - if it isn't checked you can try to enable it...altough I dubt that your drive will support DMA - becouse windows auto-detects "DMA" drives on every system startup
 
Not True Techmaster,

I am using WinME, and I have a WD 20.5GB (7200rpm) hard drive, and a BRAND new Plextor 12x10x32x CD-rw, and it didn't show as DMA on either one, I had to manually check them.

Shamrock
 
Well, I found them both turned off. Windows yelled, I forgot the message right now, but all seemed well. Then a couple of weird things happend. On reboot the computer did not ask me for my blank network password, (Got to fix that). So I booted a couple of times, moved some files around and it seems good. I played a DVD using the ASUS DVD software and it was PERFECT.... So I though all was well. I then installed Real MYST for some fun and the game would lock up in the intro looping on a sound bite. A reboot brought a message from Uncle Bill saying that my registry was corrupt, go figure... And the DMAs were off again.

I was reading something about the miniport drivers (whatever they are) and how they need to be installed. I think I have all the chipset drivers from MSI in and I see an AMD IDE driver installed in my add/remove programs.

I am wondering if I have a BIOS setting wrong or something... More research, but I tell you that with DMA on the machine screams, like it should

AMD900, MSI KT7pro2a, IBM deskstar drive, Toshiba 12 DVD. Corsair PC133 cas2 ram. This should let me DMA???????

Bob
 
a bit more.... I think I may have an old driver, I just visited AMD and VIA and 686b driver... Tonight????

I sure wish this work stuff did not get in the way of fun

 
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