My Mp3's skip?

[Slikkster]

I'm glad it worked for you, and you're asking a good question. If there's some kind of problem with the drive or Windows detects some kind of errors going on, it may itself set the drive back to PIO mode. So, you'll have to keep an eye on it. I'm not saying there's any problems with it, mind you. But that's one reason why it could have been in PIO.

You should take a look at your "Event Viewer". Go to Control Panel, click on Administrative Tools, and then click on Event Viewer. Look in the System and Application logs; primarily System in this case. You'll be looking for Red (error) and Yellow (warnings) icons before the events. Go back in time and see if you see anything that looks like it had to do with DMA transfers or the disk storage system or similar, if you notice these red/yellow icons. You can report what you see back here.

 

[jarviscares]

HMM... the problem is this started like... a few days before I left for 6 months for Australia... and I just got back so I figured I'd try to fix it... and my records only go until about 5 months ago... But under system the warnings are mainly sourced at Dhcp, and the errors are mainly W32Time, with DCOM and CD ROM once or twice. I'll keep an eye out the next few weeks to see if it switches back to PIO Mode, and if it does i'll take a look at the problem and let you know. anyway, thanks again!

 

[Slikkster]

Good deal. Sounds like you're good to go.

 

[jarviscares]

Roger that. Thanks again.