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Mark Turnbull
My daughter has a Compaq Laptop its only a few months old (5 to be
precise) and twice now she has found that it suddenly runs very slowly.
On both occasions I have found the disk transfer rate is sitting about 1
MB/s rather than 20MB/s and on further investigation have found that the
Primary IDE channel device 0 has reverted to PIO rather than Ultra DMA
mode 5.
The only way it will reset itself to DMA is if I uninstall the primary
IDE Channel and let it re-detect it on start up.
Any suggestions as to why this might be happening?
TIA
precise) and twice now she has found that it suddenly runs very slowly.
On both occasions I have found the disk transfer rate is sitting about 1
MB/s rather than 20MB/s and on further investigation have found that the
Primary IDE channel device 0 has reverted to PIO rather than Ultra DMA
mode 5.
The only way it will reset itself to DMA is if I uninstall the primary
IDE Channel and let it re-detect it on start up.
Any suggestions as to why this might be happening?
TIA