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Journal by Chacham on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @07:17PM

Continuing on my mother's computer , i took Com2kid's, Cyberdyne's, and Bill Dog's advice, and checked PIO Mode. I had no idea how to check what mode it was in, but it was set to "DMA if possible". A little googling and checking the registry, i reset the error counts, rebooted and all was better. Thanx!

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If it happens again... (Score:1)

by Com2Kid ( 142006 ) writes:

Think about possibly replacing the HD, it could be its way out. One reason Windows will sets a HD to PIO mode is if too many errors occur running it at DMA speeds.
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  by Chacham ( 981 ) writes:
  
  Well, i guess we'll worry about that if it happens again.

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