re: How to enable DMA
Monday, September 15, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6528 messages posted)
Some chipsets like VIA need special drivers so the motherboard or system builder
supplies the drivers and the configuration utility to set them up. Unless your system
is damaged, which it sounds like it could be, you need to go to the chipset manufacturer
or motherboard/system builder's website for updates or the drivers for your system.
For VIA it is called 4 in 1 driver package updates. When these are installed, the
normal Windows settings options will usually disappear as you must now use their
config utility to set the DMA and do other tasks for maintenance. Unless your system
builder or motherboard manufacturer has the required files or has included them with
your system, and the associated utility for enabling the DMA settings, you could
be out of luck if WIndows won't specifically handle your hardware correctly. You
may find them on hosting sites also, at the risk of downloading an infection also
sometimes.
Also possible that Windows may have to be repair installed or clean installed as
you would waste more time trying to fix it than just reinstalling if it isn't something
simple. If your drive isn't running in DMA, then there will be almost constant disk
activity and Windows will be super slow, so slow you will be waiting more than doing
anything. Example, even on a 2 gig processor machine, it might take 3-6 minutes
to boot up and even when done, even a small task will seem to take hours with constant
disk activity and the processor load will be at 100% more than usual.
- Written in response to:
- How to enable DMA (DanTheMan: Monday, September 15, 2008 at 6:41 am)
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