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Rollie

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stuck in PIO mode!
« on: April 22, 2007, 10:28:52 AM »
I've already tried going to hardware profiles and what not, unfortunatly "DMA mode if available" is not an option on one of the controllers. This is most irritating when i try to install games or watch a dvd because it slows my computer down to a crawl. I will prolly need basic stats on my computer for the help..... how do i go about doing this?

Raptor

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Re: stuck in PIO mode!
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2007, 10:31:44 AM »
How did you manage to do this? Did you mess around in the BIOS?

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Re: stuck in PIO mode!
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2007, 11:57:12 AM »
What flavor of Windows are you running ? ?
The procedures may differ a bit so post as much info on your machine as possible...
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Rollie

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Re: stuck in PIO mode!
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2007, 04:22:55 AM »
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How did you manage to do this? Did you mess around in the BIOS?

yeah i did mess around a little bit, but im sure not so much to do this....

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What flavor of Windows are you running?
The procedures may differ a bit so post as much info on your machine as possible...

Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2
Pentium Dual Core Duo, 3.2gig

I don't think how much ram i have or what kind of video card has to do with this problem. Anything else you need to know?

GX1_Man

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Re: stuck in PIO mode!
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2007, 04:32:51 AM »
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How did you manage to do this? Did you mess around in the BIOS?

yeah i did mess around a little bit, but im sure not so much to do this....

This sounds like an obvious place to start then. You should never mess with something you don't understand. Why don't you run Everest Home and download the report here. That could be important also as well as what else happened before this. Surely it has not always been this way.

Raptor

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Re: stuck in PIO mode!
« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2007, 05:53:35 AM »
If you changed BIOS setings, you should load the default settings or put it back to what it was.

Rollie

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Stuck In PIO Mode
« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2007, 06:22:15 AM »
I would have attached my specs but the text file is 180kb and these forums have a 128kb size limit. And also rar. is an invalid file type for some reason.

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Re: stuck in PIO mode!
« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2007, 02:29:21 PM »
Use 2 posts...the price will be the same this time only.
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