Posts by fowler

Sitting at my desk last night I was warming my feet with my space heater when I received a "tickling" sensation... I looked down and saw some sparks coming out of my space heater. So I did what any estudious EE would do and...

ya i tested both caddies... there is no options to change the auto detect settings in my bios. The hard drive I am using with it is a hitachi travelstar 60GB 7200

Ya...wiring on the pcb looks fine... and I tried the second caddy as well with the same result

Thanks, though I already read through that and tried a lot of the suggestions... that's where I got the resetdma.vbs file from which screwed things more than help. Also I put my cdrom back to to check and it is runs fine in udma.

Anyone in here having the problems I outline in this thread after installing the caddy?

Ok... so there is no option in my bios to enable secondary DMA... I got rid of the registry value and rebooted.. still in pio. I uninstalled the secondary drive in device manager, rebooted and it was in udma, but had to reboot again and...

Can someone do me a quick favor since I don't have my lappy in front of me... can somebody look at the bios and see what the settings are for hard drive channels... specifically can you set it to automatically detect the best settings or...

I'll try it again later when I get home... I may have missed something.

Quote: Originally Posted by WackyT And you still can't change the Transfer Mode: setting to DMA if available from post #3? Correct.

Quote: Originally Posted by WackyT Start > Run... > regedit Find the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Class\\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} key in the left pane Find the...