BSteng Posted December 18, 2005 Posted December 18, 2005 Hello all, Other than some slight stability issues with Windows, everything has been going well with this board, except... I have been having problems getting my devices on the IDE channels to run in DMA mode. If they are not set to PIO mode, Windows cannot even see them, and they disappear in My Computer. I am not sure if this is a Windows problem, or an issue with my BIOS because Windows setup could not read from my original IDE hard drive. (I bought a SATA one and it worked fine, and it runs in DMA mode fine as well) I was wondering if there were any BIOS settings i needed to fix, or if there were any others with this problem willing to lend me a hand with this. My current BIOS version is the initial 10/11 release. Thankyou, BSteng Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copyright Posted December 25, 2005 Posted December 25, 2005 I'm having the same issue. Optical Drives stuck in PIO mode. I have ripped drivers, gone ito the regesty. searched microsoft. Nothing seems to work. Can't even watch a DVD. Any updates I may be missing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copyright Posted December 25, 2005 Posted December 25, 2005 Just reformated, drive still stuck in PIO mode Tried 3 different IDE cables Checked Bios settings, seems Ok there. Changed it a round a bit for testing, no change Tried 2 drives Both IDE channels Any thoughts? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimTjik Posted December 25, 2005 Posted December 25, 2005 Copyright: you'll soon have some Moderators hunting you down. See the rules. We really appreciate a good visable sig here at this forum. http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=16 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copyright Posted December 25, 2005 Posted December 25, 2005 ya I just fixed that. Full system specs in sig now. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copyright Posted December 26, 2005 Posted December 26, 2005 Update: I have now installed windows 3 times Windows XP pre SP 1 disk. As soon as windows loaded I checked the drives - PIO mode Installed SP2 - Same issue Installed all the drivers from the driver CD that came with the motherboard I have my HDD (sata) on the sata 1 port. (ati controller) I moved it to a different port (not the ati controller) Same issue. I have tried a bunch of differnt reg hacks Nothing seems to be working I updated to the lastest Beta Bios from DFI Is there ATI chipset drivers besides the ones on the CD? Maybe an update. Has anyone solved this issue that has had it? ..Reading a few more posts, not sure how I missed 1 of them. Going to try to do this: South OnChip IDE Device -> disable UDMA Seems to have worked for people Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copyright Posted January 1, 2006 Posted January 1, 2006 The 12/23/05 bios seems to have resolved the issue Drive running in ultra dma 2 After the bios update windows would not boot so I cleared cmos with the jumper Reconfig the bios a bit, rebooted and it was working. So now I am happy with the motherboard Boots faster too And all the extra unknown raid contolers in device manager are gone as well. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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