DMA will not enable

[denzilla]

I'm running Win2k Pro SP3 and no matter what I try, I can't enable DMA on the 52x CD-Rom connected as Master to the secondary IDE channel. I have uninstalled the CD-Rom and the secondary IDE channel so windows could detect them again, changed the IDE cable. and switched the Hard Drive and the CD-Rom channels. The Hard drive has no problem with DMA on either channel. I've also tried 2 different 52x brands with the same result.

K6-2 450Mhz
Asus motherboard P5-A (latest bios beta only)
327 meg Ram
ATI Rage 2 AGP
15gig Seagate HDD
52x A-Open CDROM
Win2k Pro SP3

And yes, I did make sure to have "DMA if available" checked in addition to the other troubleshooting methods described above.

 

[8humhum8]

well, are you sure that the drive itself supports dma? or any of the drives you have tried?

 

[denzilla]

Yes every drive i have installed are DMA compliant.

 

[Quinone]

Did you enable your udma in your bios for the secondary ide device? I've had a similar problem, and after deleting my ide bus drivers and reinstalling them, the problem solved itself. You might check for new chipsetdrivers to solve this problem.

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[denzilla]

DMA in the bios is enabled and during the POST it also indicates that its set to DMA. Win2000 SP3 already had drivers for everything, so I just used those. I updated the Bios with the newest available (BETA). Win2k would restart instead of shutdown with the old bios.