NEC 1300a not using DMA

[shelbyGT]

Until recently, my dvd burning drive worked fine. Burnt at 4X using probably 8-10% of system resources.

Now all of a sudden it hovers around 1X-2X and uses 100% of system resources. Still burns them and they work, but something is afoul.

After doing various googles on the topic, I found that in order for it to work properly it has to use DMA and not PIO (I hope I got those right).

So I go to device manager and change the IDE/ATA thingie under its location to use "DMA if available". But this hasn't done anything, it still only uses PIO.

Anybody know how I can get it to use DMA? So far my only option that I have found is to delete the IDE driver and let windows XP reinstall it and that should clear it up.


I'm not much of a technical guy, so I don't know exactly what info you guys will need. Thanks in advance for any help.

[shelbyGT]

well, even though I found no responses, the problem is solved.

uninstall/install primary IDE.

[noki]

thanks for being nice enough to post your solution though no one came to your aid. Maybe the lack of response is due to the fact that this topic of PIO/DMA has been hashed around here months ago to no end. good luck to your future endeavors.

[shelbyGT]

I read most of the other posts, but just wanted to be sure that uninstalling that would be okay. I am by no means very computer literate, so was just looking for someone to say "it won't hurt, do it".

but no worries. I have been trolling these boards for some time now, and first time ive ever posted.

[noki]

welcome aboard