Dma

[Thesittingduck2]

My suspicions start when booting after "Windows did not shutdown properly". The scandisk tok extremly long. First I didn't think to much of it since the old 30 GBeter is rather sutffed.
I thought it might improve with a new CPU and a BIOS update.
But No. Last night while running 3dmark 2k ( I have a GF2 MX so 3Dmark 2k1 is just to depresive...) I noticed the program lagging iregguraly wich it shouldn't do...
So I checked SioSoft Sandra, and DMA is not enabled!!!!!!!!
I have struggeld with this setting before but now I can't find it?


Any one have an idea why it was disabled and where I can enable it again....

p.s. I run ME

[muckshifter]

To enable DMA:

Select Start > Settings > Control Panel, and then double-click System

Select the Device Manager tab
Double-click your hard disk and/or CD-ROM to view its properties, select the System tab, and click to select the DMA check box, you will receive an Unsupported hardware alert, you have to click OK on this alert.

Restart your computer

If the DMA checkbox doesn't stay checked after you restart your computer, it is possible that your hardware doesn't support DMA. See this article for a procedure to test your hard disk for DMA compliance.

More info' HERE (http://www.windows-help.net/windowsMe/tip-0011.html)

;)

[Thesittingduck2]

Thanx Mucks
I found it. I was looking for it under system, but I only looked under IDE and not disks which excplains why I couldn't find it.

I seems to be runing just fine after reboot aswell.

thanx

[Tuffie]

Thanks Muck's :D,I had to do that before,but had forgotten to check, when I replaced some things :cheers: