Unlocking Mr. XP2100+ and getting DMA to work on my toshiba 16x dvd rom.

[PrObLy]

Hello everyone, I'm new to these forums and just put together my first pc last week. I went with the xp2100+ and then started doing a little research on unlocking it and it appears that its the only xp (besides the new thoroughbred) that cant simply have the bridges connected to be unlocked, I found this article.... http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1009 on how some guys unlocked their xp2100 , and was curious if anyone has any other methods or ideas for unlocking it.

My second question....... this one may sound dumb but it's really bothering me..... I purchased the oem toshiba 16x (48x cd read) dvd rom drive and it wont go into DMA mode, I have it set in my device manager to use dma if available but it always shows up as PIO and when I rip dvd's to my harddrive it goes at about 2x and when I use nero CD speed to see how it performs against my digital research 40x12x48 drive, it constantly reads at 20x, never goes any higher or lower. I've tried switching ide cables, right now its alone on an ata 133 cable, so that shouldn't be the problem....if anyone could possibly help me out that would be great, thanks.

[d12agonxboi]

i dont know about the 2100+ but about the DMA u might want to try to go into the bios and check in there sometimes it says PIO only and if it does then just set it to Ultra DMA or DMA there should be some option like that in the bios tho...hope that helps

[jase71]

If I remember right, I used to have a Toshiba DVD drive... probably a 12X, and I never got it to run in DMA mode either...

Not that it helps you any... but you're not the only one who's had that problem...

[skynet]

I second d12agonxboi and checking in BIOS

also

Check to see if the DVD Drives firmware can be upgraded.

[PrObLy]

thanks for the responses guys. I figured out the DMA problem, I'm not sure if it was XP, Bios, or a little of both acting up on me because I had XP set to use DMA if available, and my Bios on Auto (it doesn't have a specific "use dma" option), so I just switched my cdrw to ide port one and the dvd rom to port two and it decided to work.