Funny Thing

[Deathman]

I have a Biostar M7VIT Bravo with KT400A chipset. The problem is that after I install Windows XP on the computer and try to copy something from one hard drive to another, Windows automatically sets my hard drive to PIO Mode 4. I've tried different versions of Via Hyperion but the problem still persists. I've changed my UATA cable but the same prob. What's more interesting is that under Windows 98SE everything goes fine. Have any ideas ? Versions of Hyperion tried 449p,451,453&455

 

[tweebel]

Strange problem, haven't heard of it before. Have you selected a slave and a master drive on the cable? If not, try it.
You might also try to connect each drive on a separate ATA controller and see if that fixes your problem.
Next to the Hyperion drivers there might be seperate drivers for the UDMA controller. You'd have to check that yourself. Also make sure you use the latest BIOS available and check the settings for the harddisks (dont think anything is wrong there but you never know).
Can't say more about this....

 

[Deathman]

Updating the Bios hasn't fixed it. Tried it. I've set correctly the Master&Slave jumpers, tried Via Busmaster 3.20 that comes separatelly from the Hyperion. Do U think that maybe my Ide controler has broken ? I don't have any ideas. One would be to put the HDD on the secondary IDE channel and see what happens. If everything works fine in Windows XP then the IDE controller must be the prob, if not I'll try to find different IDE drivers under Windows XP

 

[tweebel]

I have found something about this, you might find more by googling, this was my first hit when using windows xp pio 4 as search them. You'll have to copy paste, I'm not into link posting (yet..)
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxDMA.htm
As you can read it has to do with transfer errors (which usually are rare with modern harddrives but may be caused by magnetic interference, broken cables, bent pins (check these), hard drive bad sectors or just other harddrive malfunctions. You can of course easily test for bad sectors. Hope the article will resolve your problems.

 

[Deathman]

10x. I'll check it out. It may be a hardware problem because I've swithced the HDD from primary master to secondary master. I don't get that stupid change from UDMA to PIO mode but my computer hangs up when it works hard with the HDD. I'm sure I don't have bad blocks so it might be the mobo.

 

[Deathman]

10x. I'll check it out. It may be a hardware problem because I've swithced the HDD from primary master to secondary master. I don't get that stupid change from UDMA to PIO mode but my computer hangs up when it works hard with the HDD. I'm sure I don't have bad blocks so it might be the mobo.