win xp sets my drives to PIO mode!!!
 

After trying to read a disc burned on a pevious writer or trying to read a disc which is dirty or damaged in any way windows xp pro sets my dvd drive (liteon ) to PIO mode. If I go to device manager and try to set it back by choosing auto detect for dma it has no effect. It has a real impact on the way the drive reads the discs......it really is much faster using dma. Anyway the only way round this to date I can use is to uninstall the IDE channel the drive is on and re-boot causing windows to detect it again on startup and selecting dma again until it reads a disc it doesnt like and starts it all over again.....has anyone had this problem or knows a fix????...cheers!

filter or miniport driver?
 

Thanks for the reply...I have already installed the 1.20 via busmaster driver (filter)....I dont install all the 4 in 1's because my motherboard uses a hybrid chipset i.e. AMD northbridge and VIA 686B southbridge so I dont use the AGP driver. This driver hasnt had any effect on what happens....any more ideas???

I had the same problem as you, do yhou have an Epox 8k7a/+ mobo? i had to set the bios settin,g of the ide channel on to pio mode to work becuase i installed ide tool and the via 4n1s Xp auto puts 4N1 on and then i changed the bios settings back to mode2 or dma and deleted IDe tool. i cant remember what i did but i can't tellyou now because i am in france and not at my computer

*snicker* ur in france, lol

whatr does snicker mean?

snicker, as in giggle, but not hehehee, condescendingly, i guess.

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