Windows xp pio mode problem

Good luck to everyone. I have my cd-rw dma33 and my dvd dma66 on the secondary IDE. Hope this can help. The difference between genius and stupity is that genius has its limits - Albert Einstein. I added the Lacie samsung internal d2 DVD burner with lightscribe and both were working great for the past year.

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Find content on this site useful? Please consider making a donation; it helps to motivate further development. Sub-keys "" and "" are usually the primary and secondary IDE channels, respectivel, Find the sub-key belonging to the IDE channel that the drive is connected to based on the DriverDesc entry within that sub-key. Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.

Showing results for. Search instead for. Did you mean:. Last reply by arminl Unsolved. Hi Everyone, after a harddrive failure btw, number 6 in 3 years Thanks Armin. All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. If so, all is well. Driver is not intended for this platform If you keep getting the following error message: There is a problem installing this hardware. IDE channelAn error occurred during the installation of the device. Driver is not intended for this platform.

In this case the solution described below would not work. But when you uninstall these programs and then restart Windows, it will then install the device drivers without any further problems.

If that's not possible, you can try it from the repair console boot from the Windows install CD and select the repair console. If Windows always automatically recreates atapi.

The following article offers a way to reduce the incidence of this problem, although it still doesn't solve it altogether. But you have to go through the procedure described here to re-enable DMA first.

Assuming you've done that, insert the ResetErrorCountersOnSuccess registry values mentioned in this article into both the primary and the secondary IDE port registry keys as described.

Unfortunately this is only a half solution, because when you enter an unreadable DVD, you will get 6 errors in a row, and the IDE channel will revert to PIO mode, but at least when you pull out the DVD in time and then insert a good one, the error counter will be reset and it will at least be a bit more difficult for Windows to hobble your IDE drive.

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