I reloaded Millennium using the 98 boot disk which put a  Dos driver on the
machine.  I ended with a CDrom and the  hard-drive dropping back in speed to
the lowest on the scale  (My aim with all this was to be able to drive an
ATA100 harddisk fullspeed).

Of course at this point I put in every program that needed putting back
after the long rebuild.

Then I was looking at some tweak files and discovered that in device manager
under disk drives there was another entry level .  In this was a properties
box with a box for DMA.  Suddenly we were turned on  many times faster
according to the test program Dr Hardware.

For that simple tick space I have wasted about forty hours and bought a new
harddrive.

AWWWW!!!!!! the learning curve.  How do they put it??   Experience: the test
first and the lesson after.

Thankyou for your assistance and I hope this may help someone else.

Richard Hallett Maine USA




----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Hallett" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List"
<[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 7:34 AM
Subject: cdrom


> I threw in the towel after a couple of weeks and got another Maxtor drive
> ATA 100 30gig so I would be able to either reformat or safely do
something.
> I started with the new drive that was instantly recognized as being such
but
> could not get the machine to use it that way.  Finally discovered that the
> 4in 1 via prgram was not going in as 4/1 rather as you attempted to find
the
> various parts.  The motherboard is a FIC AZ11E with via chipset and a
Duron
> 700.
>
> I was nicely congratulaing myself having hit the magic button to get the
> machine up to speed when I discovered as I was going to re-enter an image
> program that I had no cdrom
>
> The cdrom is recognized by the bios.  Most likely I have done something to
> it while enabling either the harddirive or the onboard codec sound.
>
> It cannot be detected by hardware.
>
> Any suggestions as to how to do a lost and found for the cdrom?
>
> Richard Hallett Maine USA
>

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