re: CD and DVD using 100% CPU, system slow, is DMA set? (SOLUTION)
Thursday, January 4, 2007 at 8:38 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Angus
(24 messages posted)
For anyone finding this - and I have found loads of posts on the web on this issue
and loads of different answers - this is what solved it for me.
It was, after all, a driver issue. On the Motherboard Driver CD there was a "RAID"
driver and after installing this, the system is fine. (Although, I don't use RAID!)
In device manager there is no longer a "secondary IDE" channel, it is called "RAID
adapter" (or similar) and the CD and DVD are attached to this. The driver was from
JMB, and I guess though called a RAID driver it also handles the non-RAID IDE channels
and does things properly whereas the default MS driver does not. The driver did
not seem to effect the SATA disks.
My conclusion; if motherboard devices are not working correctly, install ALL the
drivers even those you think may not be needed.
On Wednesday, January 3, 2007 at 3:06 am, Angus wrote:
>Good tip. I have used the drivers that came with the board CD, and checked the
site
>for an updated version. The motherboard is a new design, so maybe it needs something
>special for W2K. The plan was to stick with W2K a bit longer and then go Vista
>with a Direct-X 10 graphics board - so I do want to get this config working if possible.
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