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Would anyone be able to give me more detailed instruction on how to check the DMA box, it is to fix a problem with my CD drive. the instruction i originally recieved where as follows "it appears your mode has changed from dma to PIO check attributes in system and looking under that device. make sure it's DMA is checked." I am running windows Xp home

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Chri
 
Open the Device Manager (My Computer->Manage->Device Manager) and expand the
IDE Controllers. Check properties for the primary and secondary channels
for each controller you have. Look at the current transfer mode under the
Advanced Settings tab to see if any are set to PIO. The pulldown list will
let you specify PIO only or DMA if possible. You want DMA if possible.

- Robert -
 
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