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I have a Giagabyte GA-81PE1000-G (Rev. 3)Titan motherboard 2004 GT
edition, running a Pentium4 Prescott 2.8GHz CPU (FSB 533MHz), with
512MB of DDR RAM (2 sticks of 256MB each).

My OS is Windows XP Pro.

When using any IDE HDD - Maxtor 80GB, WD 80GB or Maxtor 40GB, amongst
others - the computer will only run the IDE HDD under PIO mode -
usually PIO4.

The motherboard is supposed to support UDMA 100/66.

I am using ATA-100 80-wire HDD cables, have upgraded the BIOS to the
latest F5 version, and have tried tinkering with the BIOS settings. I
have also looked under Windows XP - Control Panel - System - Device
Manager, but with no luck in getting the HDD to run under UDMA mode.

Can anyone give some suggstions as to how to get this motherboard to
run IDE hard disks under UDMA mode?

Thanks for any advice that you may be able to offer.

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Bioboffin wrote:
> Bampfylde wrote:
>> I have a Giagabyte GA-81PE1000-G (Rev. 3)Titan motherboard 2004 GT
>> edition, running a Pentium4 Prescott 2.8GHz CPU (FSB 533MHz), with
>> 512MB of DDR RAM (2 sticks of 256MB each).
>>
>> My OS is Windows XP Pro.
>>
>> When using any IDE HDD - Maxtor 80GB, WD 80GB or Maxtor 40GB, amongst
>> others - the computer will only run the IDE HDD under PIO mode -
>> usually PIO4.
>>
>> The motherboard is supposed to support UDMA 100/66.
>>
>> I am using ATA-100 80-wire HDD cables, have upgraded the BIOS to the
>> latest F5 version, and have tried tinkering with the BIOS settings. I
>> have also looked under Windows XP - Control Panel - System - Device
>> Manager, but with no luck in getting the HDD to run under UDMA mode.
>>
>> Can anyone give some suggstions as to how to get this motherboard to
>> run IDE hard disks under UDMA mode?
>>
>> Thanks for any advice that you may be able to offer.
>
> This is usually caused by the motherboard chipset driver not being
> installed. Try reinstalling the chipset drivers from the setup disk
> and then (after the reboot) uninstalling and reinstalling the hard
> drives from Windows device manager.

There are some more suggestions over on comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage in
the thread:

Seagate Hard Drive PIO DMA

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Bampfylde wrote:
> Bioboffin wrote:
>>
>> This is usually caused by the motherboard chipset driver not being
>> installed. Try reinstalling the chipset drivers from the setup disk
>> and then (after the reboot) uninstalling and reinstalling the hard
>> drives from Windows device manager.
>
> Thanks very much for your input.
>
> I forgot to mention that whenever I boot up this computer, the BIOS
> POST display already showed my hard disk as running in PIO 4, and this
> happens before Windows XP has even started loading. So it looked like
> a BIOS problem rather than a Windows XP problem. I changed the hard
> drive IDE cable to another 80-wire cable, but it made no difference.
>
> I had tried tinkering with the individual BIOS settings before, but
> with no joy. Today, I decided to tinker some more with the BIOS.
>
> I set the BIOS to LOAD OPTIMAL SETTINGS, and lo-and-behold, the
> computer started with my WD 80GB hard disk running at ATA-100 mode!
> When I went through the individual BIOS settings, the only difference
> I could discover was that for the IDE hard disk, the MODE was set at
> AUTO. Previously, I had always set my hard drive at LBA mode.
>
> Anyway, my hard drive is now happily running in ATA-100 mode for the
> first time in nearly one-and-half years since I assembled this
> computer.

Excellent. Thanks for the reply.

John.

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"Bampfylde" <bampfylde1@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1124019450.330822.265580@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com
> Bioboffin wrote:
>>
>> This is usually caused by the motherboard chipset driver not being
>> installed. Try reinstalling the chipset drivers from the setup disk
>> and then (after the reboot) uninstalling and reinstalling the hard
>> drives from Windows device manager.
>
> Thanks very much for your input.
>
> I forgot to mention that whenever I boot up this computer, the BIOS
> POST display already showed my hard disk as running in PIO 4, and this
> happens before Windows XP has even started loading. So it looked like
> a BIOS problem rather than a Windows XP problem. I changed the hard
> drive IDE cable to another 80-wire cable, but it made no difference.
>
> I had tried tinkering with the individual BIOS settings before, but
> with no joy. Today, I decided to tinker some more with the BIOS.
>
> I set the BIOS to LOAD OPTIMAL SETTINGS, and lo-and-behold, the
> computer started with my WD 80GB hard disk running at ATA-100 mode!
> When I went through the individual BIOS settings, the only difference
> I could discover was that for the IDE hard disk, the MODE was set at
> AUTO. Previously, I had always set my hard drive at LBA mode.
>
> Anyway, my hard drive is now happily running in ATA-100 mode for the
> first time in nearly one-and-half years since I assembled this
> computer.

When you get to your BIOS main selection screen, hit CTRL F1 for more
advanced options selections.
McG.

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Bampfylde wrote:
I wonder why Giagbyte chose not to
> list this useful command on the main BIOS menu.
>
Probably because it can be vewy dangewous if You don't know what You're
doing in there. A knowledgeable user will find it, as You did, & know
what to do in there, if only to stay out! Others would find it, wonder,
hmm.....,; Gigabyte gets hundreds of calls!

g