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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

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!

@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

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

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

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.

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