Changing Transfer Modes from PIO to DMA
I posted a few days ago regarding my Dell 4550's speed problem, and was told to change my Current Transfer Mode from PIO to DMA by changing my drive setting from OFF to AUTO in the Bios.
But when I go into my Bios to change this, I'm finding that my Primary Device 0 is already set to AUTO. It's not set to OFF according to the Bios. But once my computer boots up and I check my Primary IDE Properties under Device Manager, it still says that my Current Transfer Mode is PIO Mode.
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So changing this setting in the Bios doesn't seem to work, since nothing in the Bios looks as if it needs changing.
On bootup, my computer has been staying at the Windows XP logo screen longer than normal, and the entire bootup process seems to take about twice as long as it normally should. Since the drive setting looks fine in the Bios, but seems changed once I get to my desktop, could Windows somehow be changing things during the bootup process?
I'm really stumped here.