"jallaballa" <jallaballa@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9B907B3F-FF82-4A00-B5CB-90659BE259F6@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>I checked the device manager as you said and two of the channels have DMA
> activated and the other two don't have the option on the advanced settings
> tab.
>
> [url]http://i7.tinypic.com/2l8vgk7.png[/url]
> The ones i highlighted have the DMA checkbox checked.
>
> I could also mention my computers specification:
> Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz
> 1535 MB RAM
> One 250 GB HDD and two 120 GB in RAID 0 on promise 378
> asus p4p800-e mother board
> ati radeon 9800 pro 128 MB
> sound blaster audigy se
>
> "Rock" wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Check if the drive is in PIO mode instead of DMA. Start Orb | Type
>> Device
>> manager | Click on it (or if not running as an administrator right click
>> and
>> choose Run as Administrator). Expand the a hard drive controller
>> section,
>> double click on the Channel, and click the Advanced Settings tab. PIO or
>> DMA?[/color][/color]


Ok sorry that didn't help. It was a flyer. Just saw a problem similar to
yours in the XP newsgroup and that's how it was resolved. The next step
would be to look at the video driver.

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Rock [MVP - User/Shell]