Checking DMA on Windows XP

[OptionX3]

We got a DELL 4400 for my girl friend. It came with 40G Maxtor ATA100.
However the hard drive is very slow. Sometimes less than 10,000 on Sandra hard drive benchmark. I wanted to check to see if it was DMA enabled,
but don't see the setting under control panel->system->device. How do I check to see if the hard drive is DMA 5?
-Thanks in advance

[DoPeY5007]

you need to right click on the controler for that drive in device manager, properties, it will be on the advanced tab ;)

[OptionX3]

Yeah I tried that dopey, however that DMA check box is not there. I'm starting to wonder if OEM version of DELLs Windows XP doesn't have such function. Any ideas? I pretty much went through the entire tabs, properties. I know where it is suppose to be for Win 2K, Windows ME, Win 98 SE. But not sure about Windows XP.

[Tommy Boomfiger]

Originally posted by OptionX3
Yeah I tried that dopey, however that DMA check box is not there. I'm starting to wonder if OEM version of DELLs Windows XP doesn't have such function. Any ideas? I pretty much went through the entire tabs, properties. I know where it is suppose to be for Win 2K, Windows ME, Win 98 SE. But not sure about Windows XP. my dad has a new dell and ive seen it in there.
open up the "Device Manager", expand "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers", double click "Primary IDE Channel", click the "Advanced Settings" and you should see an option for transfer mode. choose "DMA if availble" from the pull down menu and click ok. you will probably need to reboot. redo all those steps except the last one and it should say what mode it is in the "Current Transfer Mode:" box.

[johnnymk]

Wow, I learned something today...I thought that DMA only applied to CDROM's and CDRW's for direct burning purposes.
Why would anyone NOT want DMA enabled?

[sbp]

OptionX3 your system may be using Intel's Application Accelerator. See if its under Start-->Programs-->Intel-->Intel Application Accelerator