Thursday, September 11, 2008

CD Rom playing not smoothly

My PC DVD-ROM was not operating efficiently lately. I used to have this month for many years. And I have been bearing with it until recently I manage to find a solution and the problem of it.

I used to play Command and Conquer and the video clips seems to flick and not running smoothly. The DVD led light was blinking quickly, working very hard.

Not until recently, I became fishy and wanna nail down the problem.

Presto! Set the IDE channel in your PC, Start--> Program--> Control Panel--> System--> Device Manager

Looking out for Secondary IDE Channel (Assuming your CDROM is there!)

Set the default DMA mode to PIO.

In my case, my cdrom is only PIO.

It does the trick.

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