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| 36130 | 2002-02-18 04:09:00 | CPU: Pentium 3 733EB Motherboard: Asus P3V4X RAM: 256MB PC133 SDRAM CD-RW: HP Writer+ 8100 IDE OS: Win 98SE My motherboard supports UDMA/66 IDE. I'm going to buy a new hard drive soon, but most hard drives I've seen uses UDMA/100, which obviously is above the maximum requirement of my motherboard. My question is this: Can a UDMA/100 drive be 'downgraded' to UDMA/66 for use with my system? Or do I have to switch off the UDMA option completely? Another problem is that I can't seem to use the DMA option in the CD-RW drive properties within the Device Manager of the Control Panel System Properties, even though the CD-Rom manual says that it supports that option, am I missing something here? (I didn't install any CD-RW drivers except the NERO CD-writing program.) Yours, Lee |
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| 36131 | 2002-02-18 04:16:00 | Hi, a UDMA/100 drive will happily run at UDMA/66. The reson for the DMA option not working would most likely be because your motherboard may not support DMA. Hope this helps JM |
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| 36132 | 2002-02-18 05:33:00 | check to see if DMA is enabled under hardrives. if its not you may have a driver conflict. if the cdwriter works fine as it is, why fix it? |
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| 36133 | 2002-02-19 03:30:00 | As I've said, I'm thinking of buying a new hard drive which uses UDMA/100. That is why I need to be sure my system can use DMA. I'm also thinking of upgrading my CD-RW to a much faster one, which will definitely need to use DMA. My motherboard isn't THAT old, it was bought last year, and it is a very good quality one too (according to my own research). So I imagined it would have supported DMA. Is there any other way I can find out what causes the problem? BTW, according to the Device Manager, nothing is in conflict. And my hard drive does NOT use DMA... |
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