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| Thread ID: 42013 | 2004-01-29 07:39:00 | Hard drive stuck in PIO mode. I want UDMA. | PoWa (203) | Press F1 |
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| 210969 | 2004-01-30 11:26:00 | PoWa, I did do one more thing to get out of PIO mode. In the BIOS setting, I had to setup the hard disk as User defined, with the Cylinders, Heads, sectors as printed on the Drive. When You set it up like that, it only totals upto 8GB in the BIOS screen, however once WinXP boots, the drive is recognised as a 20/30GB and able to setup into UDMA mode with Via minipirt driver. I was unable to set UDMA mode when the drive was set to "Auto Detect" in the BIOS Hope that helps |
tmrafi (5179) | ||
| 210970 | 2004-01-30 11:48:00 | I think the miniport driver crashes windows. It won't boot with it installed??? I'll have a go anyway. | PoWa (203) | ||
| 210971 | 2004-01-30 12:18:00 | Make sure that the drive ribbon/cables are 80wire type & not 40. | Mzee (158) | ||
| 210972 | 2004-01-30 20:55:00 | the 4in1 drivers include the miniport drivers so you shouldn't need to install it seperately. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 210973 | 2004-02-02 06:03:00 | Hi Via 4in1 drivers do not include miniport driver. They include BusMaster Filter driver in 4in1 and users have an option to install miniport driver separately if required. Read about the differences between 4in1's Filter driver and miniport driver here (www.viaarena.com) Basically the difference is Filter driver relies on XP's interface to talk to the hardware and Miniport driver can talk to the hardware directly allowing you to tweak settings such as UDMA Cheers |
tmrafi (5179) | ||
| 210974 | 2004-02-02 07:51:00 | Both the VIA IDE Bus Master Filter Driver and the VIA IDE Bus Master Miniport driver are included in the VIA 4in1 service pack. Please note that in the 4in1 drivers, the IDE Filter Driver is referred to as the ATAPI Vendor Support Driver. the VIA IDE Miniport driver does not install with the VIA Hyperion 4in1 drivers what gives? |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 210975 | 2004-02-02 07:53:00 | I see, so I definitely need the Miniport driver.... but when I installed that my computer refused to boot... any ideas??? ???? |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 210976 | 2004-02-02 08:06:00 | > In the BIOS setting, I had to setup the hard disk as User defined, with the Cylinders, Heads, sectors as printed on the Drive. When You set it up like that, it only totals upto 8GB in the BIOS screen, however once WinXP boots, the drive is recognised as a 20/30GB and able to setup into UDMA mode with Via miniport driver. I had a look in the BIOS and I don't think there is anywhere I can configure what specs my hard drive it. Unless I'm missing it...??? Any idea what section it might be under? > Make sure that the drive ribbon/cables are 80wire type & not 40. I have put in a brand new 80wire round IDE cable... still a no-go > Next get the VIA IDE Miniport Driver from here and install it. I installed that and it makes my machine refuse to boot :( |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 210977 | 2004-02-02 09:02:00 | looks like you need to download the miniport seperatly.......darn. thanks for the correction. did you uninstall the filter driver? |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 210978 | 2004-02-02 09:27:00 | Yea I think I did actually. Why? | PoWa (203) | ||
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