amd running at 100%

[markpne19]

any one help when burning a dvd the system is running at 100 % only recently started doing this im useing nero the cpu is an amd 3800 newcastle 2gb corsair 1800 xt

 

[binaryknight]

any of your drives runnimg a bit slow ie say ata5 running at ata1 or 2?

 

[Corasik]

Could be a sign that you have a game with Starforce copy protection, and its messing up the system.

Further to what Binaryknight suggests, check that the drives have not reverted to PIO mode instead of ATA. Even ATA1 is a DMA mode transfer, which uses very little cpu intervention, PIO mode on the other hand, every bit of data transfered from disk>ram>disk passes through the cpu.

To check, you can look in the control panel > system > hardware > device manager.

Once there look at the IDE/ATAPI controllers, under that will be 1 or more Primary, and Secondary controllers, inspect each one , under advanced settings it will show your current transfer mode.

If the setting is DMA if available, but the current transfer mode is PIO, then the easiest way to fix it would be uninstall the controller, and reboot. Windows will redetect it, and should restore UltraDMA mode.

You 'May' need to reinstall your chipset drivers after this is done, but normally it will already have all the files needed to get you going.

 

[Dutch Guy]

I agree, first thing to check is PIO/DMA settings.

Have you installed a game recently?

 

[markpne19]

both say ultra dma 2 the other says ultra dma 4 and yes i have installed a few games lately

 

[killer_uk]

both say ultra dma 2 the other says ultra dma 4 and yes i have installed a few games lately

Have you checked to see if StarForce has been installed? You can do so by following the steps from this website:

Here

If you do have Starforce installed then there is also a removal guide on that site too.

 

[p4radox]

Could be a sign that you have a game with Starforce copy protection, and its messing up the system.

Further to what Binaryknight suggests, check that the drives have not reverted to PIO mode instead of ATA. Even ATA1 is a DMA mode transfer, which uses very little cpu intervention, PIO mode on the other hand, every bit of data transfered from disk>ram>disk passes through the cpu.

To check, you can look in the control panel > system > hardware > device manager.

Once there look at the IDE/ATAPI controllers, under that will be 1 or more Primary, and Secondary controllers, inspect each one , under advanced settings it will show your current transfer mode.

If the setting is DMA if available, but the current transfer mode is PIO, then the easiest way to fix it would be uninstall the controller, and reboot. Windows will redetect it, and should restore UltraDMA mode.

You 'May' need to reinstall your chipset drivers after this is done, but normally it will already have all the files needed to get you going.

Sorry for the slight hijack, but on one of my Primary IDE channels, Device 0 is on PIO only mode. Even if this is a DVD drive should it be on DMA?

Thanks

 

[meaz]

Yeah it should be on DMA mode, if it's an old drive though it could set to multi-word DMA mode. Most new optical drives should work in DMA mode 2 or above though - try uninstalling the controller from the device manager and rebooting as the correct mode should be set. Note that XP can set the mode one or two notches lower if the device has a physical problem.