Cant Enable Dma Please Help Xp

HI ALL

just got a dv cam to do a bit of stuff reading through the manuel i thought it best to do a fresh install of comp and get latest drivers and stuff have a clean go at it

anyways further on in the book it says enable dma on hard drive and tells you how device manager and so on well i remember doing this a while back ticking the little box

went to do it now and it aint there anymore it gone, i installed the nforce 2 5.10 drivers with the ide driver .

i am not sure what is going on i checked the advanced tab in ide controller for my hard drive and it does say its runnning at ultra dma mode 5 but why dont i get the tab anymore

any help asap would be great

Don't worry about it. I reckon DMA is enabled OK for your drive. Try running HD Tach 3 which you can find here:

http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public...request=HdTach

I haven't used it for a while, but the last time I used it (to determine if DMA was enabled on a drive) I seem to remember that if the cpu useage during a test was below a certain percent value then it confirmed that DMA was enabled.

You control the transer mode in the properties of the nForce ATA controller with the nForce driver installed. Like you said, it has DMA mode 5 selected.