PIO Mode

NightmareXX

NightmareXX

NightmareXX

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For some obscure reason, 2 of my 4 IDE devices are in PIO mode.

A 60GB HDD and my CD-RW. I thought my 60GB HDD was dying coz it was taking forever to write to it or read, by on closer inspection, its in PIO mode.

Now I know its not supposed to be coz with my old mobo (ECS K7S5A), it was in UDMA5 :confused: Why is it now PIO?

BTW my motherboard is Asus A8R-MVP BIOS revision 0402

Edit: Updated BIOS to 0502 and no difference
 
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Lol I do have starforce 'installed' but I've no idea where its come from. AFAIK none of my games come with starforce :confused:

Even if they did, my 60GB HDD worked perfectly fine on my old computer and that had even more games installed then my new one!

I suppose the HDD could be faulty but TBH its been working perfectly fine for the last 4 years without any problems. Surely it shoiuld still be working as HDD's don't just suddenly die.

How would XP know if my optical drive was faulty?! Sure it'd be the media thats in it, not the drive its self? (I aint sure if its my DVD or CD-RW)
 
Update:

STUPID STUPID F@#{>{*@ STARFORCE. Uninstalled the SF protection using a tool I found on the 'boycott starforce' website. That didn't work at first but then I found this website (http://winhlp.com/WxDMA.htm) which was extremely useful. I followed its advice, uninstalled the IDE Secondary Channel device and hey-presto, UDMA Mode 5 is back :D :D
 
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