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Hello guys i m having a problem with my dvd writer "LG HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4160B" I purchased the dvd writer about 1 year ago from AUSTRALIA, i also purchased some original dvd's of english movies from MALASIA now the problem is that earlier the dvd's of movies was working fine when the...

hi everyone i ve windows xp sp2 installed on my c partition. whenever the scandisk runs it shows about 5 mb of bad sector on c drive. i ve formatted the drive but it still is the same but the system is running fine. what shud i do? will the bad sectors increse or is it harmful for the hard...

1> my cd-writer is not copying data in DMA mode. I tried to enable DMA in device manager (IDE controllers) but it shows that my cd-rom is transfering data in PIO mode & it does not change to DMA mode. my mobo is an ATi chipset based mobo & I am using winXP PRO as OS. 2> whenever I...

Hi, I upgraded my Proc, M/B & RAM for AMD Athlon 64-bit 2800+ but still my system performs slower older AMD Athlon 32-bit. Application launching is very slow. Sound skips during heavy workload (on winamp 5.1). Nero gives DMA not active warning everytime I burn CDs. This is the config of my...

Hello Friends! I'm using slackware linux. I've been using linux for sometime and am comfortable using it but my level of knowledge in linux is not too high, Though I was successfully able to install slackware on my computer after 3-4 tries. I got it running. But, I've had some problem since. The...

I had my system assembled recently. The DVD drive SH-D162C was giving 0.48x speed in nero test. I found that DMA wasn't enabled.It was runnig In PIO. i tried to enable it but it was futile. i tried deleting respective DMA controller but it didn' t work. I checked BIOS but nothing was...

I want to disable DMA support for my DVD writer in WinXp so that i can upgrade the firmware of the writer. documentation of upgrade says that i shld disable the DMA support first. Please help and thanx in advance.

Recently i ve bought an 80 GB Seagate Barracuda HDD (PATA). I used Norton Ghost to duplicate my original harddisk. Ghost showed a speed of 1900 + MB per Minute. After that I copied a 670 MB divx movie from 1 partition to another. It took almost 2 minutes to complete the copy. That is a dos based...

First, please refer to the pic above. My problem is that my 40GB Seagate barracuda (shown as Device 0) functions only in Ultra DMA Mode 3, whereas my older Samsung 20GB (shown as Device 1) functions in Ultra DMA Mode 4. I'd like to know how to make it work in Mode 4, as it's faster (66 MB/s)...

On my AMD Athlon 2600 in A7V8XMX-SE mobo every thing was fine until yesterday while trying to write the knopix linux iso image on a cd, nero asked me to enable the secondary master DMA (LG CDRW 52x32)..... as i am on windows XP SP2 the DMA was enabled by defoult....... i didnt turned it off...

i have p3 with 256 mb ram & has cd rom & cd writter i want to turn on the dma option in win xp (Pro) i see that the dma option of hdd is on (Made on through the BIOS setting) but of cd rom & writter it is off By NERO drive info How to turn on dma in win xp pro

Hi anybody :lol: , Well I bought a new CD-Writer and installed it as the Secondary Master, with my HDD & CD-ROM as Primary Master & Slave respectively 8) . Earlier the Nero Drive Info showed DMA On for my HDD and CD-Writer, but once when I reformatter and reinstalled WinXP, it shows DMA off...

i use w2k .... cannot find settings 2 enable DMA 4 cdr & cdrom ... searched from > device manager > r-click on drive > properties & driver tab only ... settings tab is not present ... have enabled DMA from BIOS .... i had formatted my drive & reinstalled w2k recently