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22. May 2006 @ 19:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
My wife and I are in Idaho, visiting my son, his wife, and 2 of my grandkids. I convinced my son that it is time for him to get a DVD burner and a backup hard drive. lol

We made a trip to Best Buy, and we got a 120GB Seagate hard drive, a Pioneer DVR-111D DVD burner, and a Sony CRX320EE DVD ROM. The Sony is all they had for readers. :(

Ok, no problem connecting everything and getting it to work. The burner and reader are connected to the secondary port on the mobo. The Pioneer is the master. The Pioneer doesn't like the 16x Verbatims. Lots of errors, but that is not the problem for which I need some guidance.

I built this computer for him about 3.5 years ago. The motherboard is an Asus P4T533-C, with a 2.4GHz Intel Processor and 512MB of Samsung RD PC800 RAM. I updated the BIOS for the motherboard, and there are no new firmware updates for the burner and reader.

After all was hooked up, I went into Device Manager to see if the burner and reader were running in Ultra DMA mode. The burners showed up alright, so all was well there. I went to the Ide ATA/ATAPI Controllers, and there is no Advanced tab. This is where I need the help. Does anyone know why that tab is not showing? The DMA modes do show up in the Intel Application Accelerator program, but that program is not running in the background, so I don't think that that is the problem.

If anyone has experienced this and can offer some help, I would appreciate it.

Life is good!
GrandpaBruce - Vietnam Vet - 1970 - 1971
Computer: Intel Core i7-920 Nehalim;Asus P6T Deluxe V2

This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 23. May 2006 @ 04:58

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22. May 2006 @ 19:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I'm assuming you've scoured the BIOS for settings pertaining to speed for the IDE channels?

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23. May 2006 @ 04:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yes I did. No speeds for the Ide channels. Both are on. I suspect he may need to reinstall XP.

Life is good!
GrandpaBruce - Vietnam Vet - 1970 - 1971
Computer: Intel Core i7-920 Nehalim;Asus P6T Deluxe V2
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23. May 2006 @ 08:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hmm...I've never heard of that before, kinda odd. Well, good luck!

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23. May 2006 @ 15:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thanks, Tom. The problem actually was the Intel Application Accelerator. Never install it. I uninstalled it, and all is the way it should be.

I wanted to post this so someone else having the same problem, may stumble across this solution.

Life is good!
GrandpaBruce - Vietnam Vet - 1970 - 1971
Computer: Intel Core i7-920 Nehalim;Asus P6T Deluxe V2
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