Abit asus p4s533 onboard ide stuck in pio mode

[The PIT]

Under windows 98 I get dma. Under win2k I just get pio mode. Under a install off winxp I get dma5. I'm using the latest drivers. I've uninstalled and re-installed. So how do force the darn thing into dma mode.
The settings are right in the bios so what gives??

[Dr Mordrid]

Win2K requires at least SP-2 to properly support anything past ATA66 and to report the mode the drive is using correctly.

Check these two KB articles for more info;

KB Q260233

KB Q269555

Uppance: even though the drives are using UDMA Win2K may still report them as being in PIO mode.

Don't you just love Micro$soft?

Dr. Mordrid

[The PIT]

Under sp3 and it's definatley pio mode cos it crawls. Me thinks it's time for a clean install.
Next question XP and Me dual boot system or just XP.

Advantage with one system that it's a lot less hassle and ME is going to be defunct anyway. Disadvantage if XP falls over you've got nothing else too use in the meantime.

[K6-III]

Have you tried installing the latest SIS IDE drivers???

[The PIT]

Yes the ones on the CD are a later version than the ones on Asus website and SIS website.

[The PIT]

Well I bottled out of a single operating system so I upgraded win98 to me and this went smoothly. 98 had deceased working.
Win2k wouldn't upgrade due to the radeon card causing the upgrade to fall over. So I plonked a clean version of XP back on.
Xp is working happily all though Creatives latest drivers caused it to blue screen and sulk a little until I ran the program again.