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| 138577 | 2003-04-24 09:57:00 | Hi all, anyone here have an ASUS E-616 DVD player?? In order to flash this thing to the latest update, you need to change to PIO Mode . How exactly do you do this?! I've changed the ide cable to 40 pin (the DVD is ATA 100, so is 80 pin) . Didnt work . I changed to PIO in Control Panel/Hardware . Didnt work . I disabled DMA in BIOS . Didn't work! I even disconnected the burner (which is secondary master, (the DVD is secondary slave), and pulled the power out for it (the burner) . And set the DVD to master . Still didn't work! What other way is there to fix this thing, so it changes to PIO Mode? Someone said to use Intel Accelerator (which doesnt work on an ASUS P4S333 system) . It's not a 845 based system . It's a 645 or something . The P4B is a 845 based system, BUT Intel Accelerator didnt have the option in it, to change to PIO MODE! Any help appreciated . Thanx :) |
Spacemannz (808) | ||
| 138578 | 2003-04-24 12:16:00 | In the hard drive section of your bios you should have an option in there to change the settings of the drive, you should be able to flick through these to PIO mode. Note i think DMA mode 2 is equivalent to PIO4. But don't quote me on that, it might be that they run at the same speed but are still different interfaces. | roofus (483) | ||
| 138579 | 2003-04-24 13:25:00 | open up device manager (right click on my computer > properties > hardware tab > device manager), then expand IDE/ATAPI controllers, double click on the controller that your rom drive is on (normally secondary controller), find the device ID 0 = master, 1 = slave and force it from "DMA if available" to "PIO only" this image is win2k, but is pretty much the same in winxp www.g33kflat.skankyflat.net |
whetu (237) | ||
| 138580 | 2003-04-24 20:32:00 | Umm Yup, I tried that trick Whetu. Rebooted. BUT this update still wouldnt work :( It said something bout msg err! I dont really know, if its this program/update that screwed! or I'm doing something wrong. BUT you would think the info you've given would work. It doesnt..! Arrrggg! The info you've given, was one of the first things I tried. I guess its back to the drawing board. I also tried the other guy's trick. BUT the burner/DVD is on secondary NOT on the same IDE as the hdd. I did try changing the secondary slave and master device in BIOS to PIO, and disabled DMA as well. Still didnt work! I wonder if using beta versions of BIOS updates would be the prob? Somehow, I dont think so |
Spacemannz (808) | ||
| 138581 | 2003-04-25 00:32:00 | how did you come the conclusion it didnt work? your best bet to find out if it worked is to look at the screen that comes up before the windows splash screen when you turn on your computer, it will have a list of your drives there and the modes they are running at. | roofus (483) | ||
| 138582 | 2003-04-25 06:22:00 | Well how I found out is, this ASUS DVD update (it's an EXE file) fails everytime I try and update/flash to the latest update for the DVD. Thats how I found out. Yup, I know it brings it up on bootup. It still brings up DMA whether I change it in BIOS / disable DMA or not! | Spacemannz (808) | ||
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