Hi folks,
i got some serious trouble with my “new” NEC 3500 DVD-burner. The drive works only in 5x reading an 1x writing mode. With the help of this forum (thx ) i indentified the cause: the drive works in pio-mode. Turning to “autodedect dma” in the IDE-drivers (don’t know what it’s called in english WinXP…) didn’t help, Windows doesn’t recognize that the drive is dma capable. Reinstalled IDE/ATAPI drives maybe 10 times by now. :Z Tried all registry fixes proposed in other threads. Nothing helped…
While booting, the drive is listed in pio4 mode and there are no possibilities to set anything manually for CD/DVD-drives in the BIOS … works all over autodetect. I tried to use different cables and different prim/sec-ma/slv combinations … nothing helped. So i’m out of ideas…
my config:
Gigabyte GA-7DXR motherboard, AMD 760 chipset
NEC 3500 at primary master with no primary slave with 80pin IDE cable
WinXP prof (stable, no other problems)
no virtual drives
my old CD burner runs in same config in dma2 mode …
anybody ideas?
thx,
Peter