Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Considering the age of the thread and to avoid confusion, if the troubleshooting steps in this thread did not resolve your issue I would recommend creating a new thread so that the community can focus on that thread.
Refer to the following link prior to posting a question so that you may provide all the relevant information, for us to help you:. I am trying to enable DMA mode. I have uninstalled it and reinstalled it. All of my drivers are up to date. I have contacted customer support for my brand of computer and it was no help.
I even attempted to edit the registry, but even that did not have the options that this particular person suggested, so I left it alone. My computer that is 3 years old can encode a dvd to its hard drive 4 times faster than my new laptop and everything on the laptop is more powerful and faster.
It has an Intel HM55 chipset. For each item which has a word Channel as a part of its label, you must right-click on it and select Properties. Now you will see the Properties window. Click on Advanced Settings tab. More articles: Windows 7 Windows in windows 7. This option does not appear for PATA drives on a system that supports them.
The option appears only for SATA drives. There is no evident way to enable DMA on those controllers, which is where it's most needed because they are slower drives, usually. Hi Raghav, This is really very nice article from you about direct memory access in windows 7. Nice informative article from you.
It is valuable one. What happens if no entry shows anything with "channel"? But, if I don't install those drivers and let Windows to install some default drivers instead , its okay, I can finally see ATA channels. If you already installed your CD drivers, just right click "Intel We believe in providing quality content to our readers. A DMA checkbox that won't stay checked when you restart the system is a good indication that your computer does not support DMA properly.
Unfortunately, this method of determining support is not foolproof. DMA may appear to install successfully, but may have intermittent problems anyway. Any of the following symptoms may or may not indicate a DMA problem:. If any of these problems occur, it does not necessarily mean that you cannot use DMA with your computer. The following are likely causes of the problems:. According to the ATA standard, cables can be no longer than 18" 0. These long cables may not work reliably, if at all, with high-speed DMA modes.
Cables also vary greatly in quality. When you're installing a hard drive, always replace the old ATA cable with the cable that comes with the drive. If no cable came with the drive, buy a good-quality DMA cable separately.
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