WinXP DMA problem/missing Advanced tab in Device Manager

[johnc19]

Hi, I unistalled my secondary IDE as I could not enable DMA on my DVD burner. Note: DVD burner was still installed at that time. When I re-installed Secondary IDE.....the 'Advanced' tab in Win XP ie IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers -> Primary/Secondary IDE Channel -> Advanced Settings tab is now missing. It is no longer there for my Secondary IDE. Any idea on how I get it back? The DVD burner is now performing a lot faster, so it looks like DMA is turned on. Ok ..any advice will be good.

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- dodecahedron

[dodecahedron]

hi johnc19 and welcome to CDRLabs.

well, simple fixes to try:
in Device Manager, try again uninstalling the Secondary IDE Channel and reboot.
another thing to try: uninstall the DVD burner too!

[HardwareHarry]

@Johnc19 at my system Intel(845PE) chipset, the DEVICE tabs vanished after I installed the Intel Accellerator Driver, so if you have a Intel chipset only install Intel INF. set, then the tabs are coming back.

success, Harry

[burninfool]

Did you upgrade to SP2?I've noticed it's been removed so use Nero Infotool to check.

[HardwareHarry]

In my case SP2 did the XP Pro completely lock, so I installed XP again without SP2 but ZoneLab ZoneAlarm Firewall wich I understand and for me on Cable is completely safe !

Harry

[johnc19]

Hi all,
Thanks for the advice...but no luck yet with enabling the DMA or getting the Advanced Tab back. I have unistalled and reinstalled the DVD drive and the IDE controller and noluck. I did check if DMA was enabled through Nero...and nope...not enabled!

I do have the Intel 845PE chipset....so I will try uninstalling the Acceleraor program.

OK all...let me know if you think of anything else.

[dodecahedron]

if you have the IAA installed, then you do not have that tab in Device Manager, and DMA is controlled from the IAA.