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By: jaffamuffin

jaffamuffin — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:46:19 +0000

None of the above software tricks worked for me. I had to swap my 2 hard disks around from primary to secondary controllers and vice versa. Then it worked nicely.

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By: deonkella

deonkella — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:32:19 +0000

I'm using winxp when i insert my flash drive into my onboard usb port it gives me blue screen of death. What can i do to fix the probem.

By: deon

deon — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:17:12 +0000

I'm using winxp when i insert my flash drive onto my onboard usb port it gives me blue screen of death evertime. What can i do to fix ?

By: Xmike

Xmike — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:34:52 +0000

I tried changing the registry without any results. So I finally deleted my 6.1 nero and install my old version Nero OEM 3 that came with one of my pervious DVD burners. Burns great now. I think they have CW blocking on the latest versions.

By: LNA

LNA — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:56:51 +0000

yeah…

Man…it does work..thanks a lot..
Incredible that even after 3 year, this trick still helping people.

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 06 May 2007 10:34:55 +0000

This worked for me — I tried half a dozen other ideas before finding this one, thanks!

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Wed, 02 May 2007 07:18:56 +0000

guys I noticed something: the transfer mode is still (multi-word DMA mode 2) and there is no problem but I checked today the regedit and the same key available before in the same location(MasterIdDataChecksum).

Is this normal or it is a warning that the problem will happen again?

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Tue, 01 May 2007 07:53:14 +0000

Solution:
I was in PIO and the simple toggle to PIO then to DMA did not work for my drive. I then deleted MasterIDCheckSum(and slave) and rebooted. This did not work.

Then I saw Post 99 by Simon C-S and I tried

It WORKS:

Updating Driver from Ultra ATA to Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller

1. My Computer -> Properties -> Hardware -> Device Manager
2. select device Ultra ATA(IDE Controller), chose it's
Properties -> Driver

Note:
IDE controllers may be listed not only in 'IDE controllers'
section, but in 'SCSI and RAID controllers' or 'Other devices'.

3. Update Driver -> Next
4. ( ) .…
(*) Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)
5. Next
6. ( ) .…
(*) Don't search. I will choose the driver to install
7. Next
8. Click on Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
9. Next
10. Finish
11. Reboot

Now my 2 harddisks and CD-ROM are in DMA4 and 2 respectively.

Thanks!