hey i was trying to enable Direct memory access
i thought u just needed to go to right click on my computer>properites>device manager>disk 
drives>then the hard drive  but i go to settings and there no thing there only a 
few options but no DMA. On a web site it said go to IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers in 
device manager but there is no IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers in device manager.
on the age of mythology readme it says this dma thing will make my computer faster 
i tried to do this a long time ago but didit bother becasue computer was going fast 
but age of mythology is quite slow lol

oh ya and under system devices in device manager theres a yellow ! next to plug and 
play bois extension and i go into it and it says : the NTKERN.VXD device loader(s) 
for this device could not load the device driver (Code 2) and says update the drivers 
but i click update and it cant find any drivers for it. i remeber it being there 
a long time before this so its not a new device i think it dont tell me what plug 
and play bois extention it is so i wouldent know where to get the drivers for it 
from

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re: How to enable DMA Monday, September 15, 2008 at 1:42 pm Posted by Keith Stanier (1655 messages posted) DanTheMan wrote: |hey i was trying to enable Direct memory access |i thought u just needed to go to right click on my computer>properites>device manager>disk |drives>then the hard drive but i go to settings and there no thing there only a |few options but no DMA. Hi Dan. Well on my Win98SE I have a DMA checkbox on the hard drive but I never check it. I do check the DMA checkbox on my PlexWriter CD Rom because Nero says to do that. Why do you need to checkmark your hard drive? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to enable DMA Monday, September 15, 2008 at 7:08 pm Posted by C K (6910 messages posted) Some chipsets like VIA need special drivers so the motherboard or system builder supplies the drivers and the configuration utility to set them up. Unless your system is damaged, which it sounds like it could be, you need to go to the chipset manufacturer or motherboard/system builder's website for updates or the drivers for your system. For VIA it is called 4 in 1 driver package updates. When these are installed, the normal Windows settings options will usually disappear as you must now use their config utility to set the DMA and do other tasks for maintenance. Unless your system builder or motherboard manufacturer has the required files or has included them with your system, and the associated utility for enabling the DMA settings, you could be out of luck if WIndows won't specifically handle your hardware correctly. You may find them on hosting sites also, at the risk of downloading an infection also sometimes. Also possible that Windows may have to be repair installed or clean installed as you would waste more time trying to fix it than just reinstalling if it isn't something simple. If your drive isn't running in DMA, then there will be almost constant disk activity and Windows will be super slow, so slow you will be waiting more than doing anything. Example, even on a 2 gig processor machine, it might take 3-6 minutes to boot up and even when done, even a small task will seem to take hours with constant disk activity and the processor load will be at 100% more than usual. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to enable DMA Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 12:03 am Posted by DanTheMan (140 messages posted) so i need different drivers if i want to get dma? is there a tool for all hard ware that i can download that changes things like this [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to enable DMA Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 7:22 am Posted by DanTheMan (140 messages posted) becasue its meant to make your hard drive faster and make games run better On Monday, September 15, 2008 at 1:42 pm, Keith Stanier wrote: >DanTheMan wrote: >|hey i was trying to enable Direct memory access >|i thought u just needed to go to right click on my computer>properites>device manager>disk >|drives>then the hard drive but i go to settings and there no thing there only a >|few options but no DMA. > >Hi Dan. > >Well on my Win98SE I have a DMA checkbox on the hard drive but I never check it. > >I do check the DMA checkbox on my PlexWriter CD Rom because Nero says to do that. > >Why do you need to checkmark your hard drive? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to enable DMA Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 10:10 am Posted by KeithT (2653 messages posted) You probably already have DMA enabled on your hard disk, should be by default. An MS article for reference .... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/258757 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to enable DMA Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 10:14 am Posted by C K (6910 messages posted) If you need different drivers for the chipset on the motherboard, it has to come from the motherboard manufacturer, the chipset maker, or the manufacturer of the computer if it is a big OEM type machine. Without being able to see if you are running in DMA already, you won't know if you really have DMA enabled. If you are already running in DMA, you obviously won't be able to speed anything up as far as the HDD. There are no generic utilities that I know of that handle all types of different manufacturers of motherboards/chipsets. Who is the manufacturer of the machine or what brand and model motherboard do you have in your machine? How much memory and what is the CPU speed? Need to know that info to be able to help at all or give you an idea as to what you should expect from your machine. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to enable DMA Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 4:42 am Posted by Keith Stanier (1655 messages posted) KeithT wrote: |You probably already have DMA enabled on your hard disk, should be by default. Thats an interesting point Keith and a good link thanks. As I've said mine as never been enabled all the years I've been using Win98SE. I shall have to give it a try to see if anything noticeable happens. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to enable DMA Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 6:52 am Posted by DanTheMan (140 messages posted) This is most of my computer stuff tell me if u need more information(couldent get all becasue system info program wasent working so well) Manufacturer Gigabyte Model i810 Version 1.3A Chipset Vendor Intel Corporation Chipset Model 82810E 810e Host-Hub Interface and Memory Controller South Bridge 82801AA 8xx Chipset LPC Interface Bridge SMBus Intel Corporation 82801AA 8xx Chipset SMBus Controller @04C0h CPU Intel Celeron Cpu Socket Socket 370 [Socket 370 ] Max CPU Speed 800 MHz System Slots 3 PCI Video (Enabled) Intel Corporation Sound (Enabled) YAMAHA Audio Sound (Enabled) AC97 Audio (Enabled) AC97 Modem Maximum Memory Module Size 512 MBytes Maximum Capacity 1024 MBytes Memory Slots 2 Name Physical Memory Array Chassis Desktop Machine Type IBM PC/AT UUID FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF Free resources (16 bits) System resource 55% GDI resource 55% User resource 55% Disk Space Disk C: 10 GB Available, 17 GB Total, 10 GB Free Disk Q: 0 MB Available, 685 MB Total, 0 MB Free Physical Memory 191 MB Total, 3 MB Free Memory Load 85% Virtual Memory 1858 MB Total, 1661 MB Free Nvidia Geforce 4 mx 440 e pci 64mb 191mb of sd ram [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to enable DMA Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 10:52 am Posted by C K (6910 messages posted) You may have a corrupted install if you have other errors too. Have you tried to reinstall the system? The Intel application/drivers for the chipset are here, http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/iaa/ but it shouldn't be needed for Win 9X. Can't promise that it will work on your board. It was mainly for Intel branded boards but should work for your chipset. Just make sure to read everything that is important to make sure.. Intel's drivers may not be exactly right for your board. Otherwise, you have to download drivers from Gigabyte, if they have them. You would need the actual model number of the board though, which isn't in the info that you posted (only the chipset number is there). Many times those utilities won't/can't determine the actual model of the board. You would have to try and find it printed on the board somewhere, or have the actual owners manual that lists the model number. If it were mine, I would take a spare HDD and do a clean test install of Windows, to see if the HDD DMA/PIO check box appeared under the drive listing. If it does, then you have your answer. The old install of Windows is damaged and may not be repairable, other than a repair install, or a clean install if that fails. Can't help more than that without actually being able to get my hands on it to test it myself.. Good Luck!! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to enable DMA Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 7:28 am Posted by DanTheMan (140 messages posted) so if i do a windows me reinstall over the top of it all my programs will be there still and all my things like the icons i changed will still be wont they and if i reinstall windows me over the top of it do u think it will fix the dma thing On Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 10:52 am, C K wrote: >You may have a corrupted install if you have other errors too. Have you tried to >reinstall the system? > >The Intel application/drivers for the chipset are here, > >http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/iaa/ > >but it shouldn't be needed for Win 9X. Can't promise that it will work on your board. > It was mainly for Intel branded boards but should work for your chipset. Just make >sure to read everything that is important to make sure.. Intel's drivers may not >be exactly right for your board. Otherwise, you have to download drivers from Gigabyte, >if they have them. You would need the actual model number of the board though, which >isn't in the info that you posted (only the chipset number is there). Many times >those utilities won't/can't determine the actual model of the board. You would have >to try and find it printed on the board somewhere, or have the actual owners manual >that lists the model number. > >If it were mine, I would take a spare HDD and do a clean test install of Windows, >to see if the HDD DMA/PIO check box appeared under the drive listing. If it does, >then you have your answer. The old install of Windows is damaged and may not be >repairable, other than a repair install, or a clean install if that fails. > >Can't help more than that without actually being able to get my hands on it to test >it myself.. Good Luck!! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to enable DMA Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 8:43 am Posted by C K (6910 messages posted) Everything should stay the same as it is, unless there is damage that Windows can not fix. When you do a repiar install of Windows, it is actually installing a clean install of Windows, the same as if you wiped your drive and installed clean, except that Windows will try and import all of your settings data, drivers, and programs from the old install into the new one. The issue is that sometimes those "defects" in the old system can be imported into the new install if WIndows doesn't have the "knowledge" on what NOT to import as far as damaged parts of the old system. This is why Windows needs a certian/minimum amount of free space on the HDD to accomplish a repair install. It simply doesn't "overwrite" the old install at all. If Windows thinks it is successful, then it will delete the old install, and you can still be left with a damaged system. About 25% of the time I will find this to be the case. This is why I would recommend having a spare HDD to clean install Windows on to see if the DMA check box shows up and your other errors are fixed. If it seems to be fixed, then you know that you have a damaged system. I would then use the spare drive to image/clone you original drive to and then run the repair install on that, and keep your original drive safe if you don't want to risk losing your data and programs. If the spare drive successfully repairs, your home free. If it doesn't, then you know that you won't be able to repair the Windows install, and will have to end up using a clean install, reinstall your programs and transfer your data over to your new installation manually. Don't let Windows do it with any "wizards". Sorry for being long winded but over the years, I have my methods since I have had to (and still do, but not as much anymore) do this professionally from a data recovery standpoint. Bottom line is that one needs to have some spare hardware and make backup plans if you don't want to risk losing everything on a computer system, and expect to try and be successful in repairing it. Just my experience.. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to enable DMA Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 10:56 pm Posted by DanTheMan (140 messages posted) ok then. thanks for all the help C K and Keith [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to enable DMA Friday, September 19, 2008 at 1:48 am Posted by dantheman (3 messages posted) i did a a repair install but didit fix the dma problom and the plug and playbois thing but fixed my context menu and a other problom BUT it has created a problom every time i start my computer it will come up with Explorer has caused an error in and i will click close but after 30 secs it will show it lol but it dont do this in safe mode On Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 10:56 pm, DanTheMan wrote: >ok then. thanks for all the help C K and Keith [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to enable DMA Friday, September 19, 2008 at 8:04 am Posted by C K (6910 messages posted) I would strongly suspect you have hardware problems. If that is the case, software or settings won't solve it. Memory would be the first suspect. Run this: http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp Software diagnostics won't always be able to detect errors but it would be a start. Hardware testers are the only sure way of diagnosing hardware issues but you would have to be a service facility to afford that equipment. The memory could be OK but the motherboard could be failing if errors are detected. Not all that unusual as hardware ages... You could also have hard drive issues so no way of really helping from a forum. This very much sounds like a "hands on issue" to really test and determine you problems. (either failing memory or HDD can cause data corruption and loss that can make Windows sick to non-functional) Try the Intel App Accelerator from the link I posted earlier and see what happens. Intel did have some issues that could be helped by installing their drivers. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to enable DMA Friday, September 19, 2008 at 8:09 am Posted by DanTheMan (140 messages posted) it said Explorer has caused an error in On Friday, September 19, 2008 at 1:48 am, dantheman wrote: >i did a a repair install but didit fix the dma problom and the plug and playbois >thing but fixed my context menu and a other problom BUT it has created a problom >every time i start my computer it will come up with Explorer has caused an error >in and i will click close but after 30 secs it will show it lol but it >dont do this in safe mode > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to enable DMA Friday, September 19, 2008 at 8:10 am Posted by DanTheMan (140 messages posted) Explorer has caused an error in unknown [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to enable DMA Saturday, September 20, 2008 at 7:36 am Posted by DanTheMan (140 messages posted) i tryed the intel app and that worked well but i aways had that but this was newer so i got it every start up it will come up with Explorer has caused an error in and will come up again after 30 secs every thing is fine expect that am thinking it may be a start up app but i unclicked every thing in msconfig [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to enable DMA Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 11:17 am Posted by Ed (741 messages posted) One possibility, try re-registering the system DLL files. Go to START > RUN and in the RUN box type the following -   regsvr32 urlmon.dll Then press the ENTER key. You should see a brief message that the dll has been successfully registered. Do the same with the following, one at a time, pressing ENTER after each: regsvr32 Shdocvw.dll regsvr32 Actxprxy.dll regsvr32 Oleaut32.dll regsvr32 Mshtml.dll regsvr32 Browseui.dll regsvr32 Shell32.dll Then download and install this Microsoft patch, which will install DLL files that are compatible with Win9x:   MCREPAIR.EXE Answer YES when prompted to replace a Newer file with an Older version. Alternatively, open your bootup log in Notepad (it's a text file), and examine it to find any devices which failed to load properly on startup (i.e. search it for the word FAIL). That log file is in C: root, and is called BOOTLOG.TXT It might be a hidden file, in which case open an MS-DOS box and type the following command first (so that Notepad will be able to open it): C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ATTRIB.EXE C:\BOOTLOG.TXT -H Ed On Friday, September 19, 2008 at 8:10 am, DanTheMan wrote: >Explorer has caused an error in unknown [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum