Windows Delayed Writing...

[StaffanC]

Hi!

I have four HDD:s in my PC; two SCSI (booting from one of them) and two IDE-drives. I also got one DVD writer. Running Windows XP SP2.

After having started up DVDFab 6.2.x.x for the very first time I was asked if I wanted to enable DMA somewhere (one of the drives probably, unfortunately, I did'nt read properly). I did answer with yes. After a reboot, the IDE drives keep giving me the messages: "Windows - Delayed write....."

What happened when I answered yes on the DMA-request? Some system setting must have been changed by DVDFab.

My questiion is. What measures did DVDFab undertake after I answered Yes on the DMA question (could BIOS settings have been changed?). I need to bring my IDE:s back to work

Looking forward to your bright ideas on the subject.

Thank you in advance for your help

Regards,

Staffan

[maineman]

Hi StaffanC,

Bummer.
I've always been of the mindset..."if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
I wish I always took this advice...

Anyway, I'm not sure exactly what happened.
Does your burner perform ok, as it did prior to the "fix?"

A few suggestions...
Uninstall your burner in device manager.
XP will reinstall the burner and assign the appropriate drivers and your proper DMA mode should be re-established.

Also suggest thast you update to SP3 as Fengtao strives to stay current with the latest os updates.

[maineman]

Sorry, I guess I skipped over part of your post.
Fab should not do anything to your hdds.
Have your hdds been affected?

No, your bios would not have been modified....certainly not by Fab.

[AlienX69]

Try mainmans suggestion first, it should work

Uninstall your burner in device manager.
XP will reinstall the burner and assign the appropriate drivers and your proper DMA mode should be re-established.

If not you can try this:

# Right-click on My Computer and choose Properties.

# Click on the Hardware tab.

# Click on the Device Manager button.

# Find the device in the list, probably under "Disk Drives."

# Right-click on the device and choose Properties.

# Click on the Policies tab.

# Uncheck Enable write caching on disk.

# Click on OK.

Note that you can disable write caching for internal hard drives, but doing so may affect system performance.

[StaffanC]

Thanks guys

I really appreciate all your tips and ideas. Thank you so much. All of you!

I'll try your suggestions tomorrow (it's my office computer that troubles me) and it's 7 p.m. here in Sweden.

I'll let you know tomorrow how things are working out.

Until then,

Cheers,

Staffan

[90312]

I get this error sometimes when I snatch a USB thumb drive out of the port without shutting it down first. It means you are stranding data out in the cache memory that is not written to the disk before communication is broken. It is usually no big shake. If you are running an IDE drive in UDMA mode be sure you have an 80 wire cable from the controller to the drive rather than a 40 wire ribbon or this error is a risk.

[StaffanC]

Gentlemen!

Hi, there!

Sorry I'm a bit late in responding.

After having tried all your tips ending up at square one, again, I searched the net and found the solution:

I invested a couple of dollars buying a new IDE-cable (80 wires instead of 40) between the motherboard and the two IDE-drives. And, like magic, all my delayed writing errors disappeared.

Thank you all for your tips. I really appreciate it!

Cheers,

Staffan

[90312]

Now who would have ever guessed that? LOL!

[AGJ]

Now who would have ever guessed that? LOL!

You did yesterday