The trouble i went through in getting an upgrade of the optical media drive would probably help a few if they are up to something like that.
I bought a LG Super Multi DVD Rewriter from SP Road, which had a minimum requirement for 256MB of RAM. My system at home had the minimum requirement for the DVD drive. But the drive could not read the disc when inserted, the disc could be heard running in the drive. After a few agonizing moments it would show some ‘I/O error’. This i presumed to be due to RAM constraint.
Then i bought a RAM from SP Road. My older 256MB RAM was at 266MHz on 333MHz FSB of A7N8X-VM Asus motherboard on one slot. The motherboard supports dual channel. I was not sure if a newer RAM at higher speed of 400MHz would run fine along with the older RAM at slower speed. Anyway i bought the faster RAM of 512MB as it was about 42% cheaper than RAM @ 266MHz.
Unfortunately the RAM did not function fine, some hardware problem may be. The BIOS would load fine but as Windows XP loads, it would restart displaying momentarily a blue screen, Windows XP Blue Screen of Death. Then i got it replaced with confidence that RAMs at different speed would run fine, though at the speed of lower of the two RAMs.
As expected, that worked fine. But the DVD drive still did not function fine. I got this error more often: ‘The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error’. Once i even got this message: ‘Only part of a ReadProcessMemory or WriteProcessMemory request was completed.’
I searched extensively to get a fix for this, and i found a direction which helped. The error message is caused from Windows trying to use a transfer mode that your CD/DVD drive cannot recognize.
To resolve this issue, you will need to change the transfer mode in your IDE channel properties. Here’s how:
- Go to Start
- Right click My Computer
- Select Manage from the resulting menu
- In the Computer Management window, select Device Manager
- In the right pane, click to expand IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
- Identify your CD/DVD drive in the expanded menu and right click the appropriate drive
- Select Properties
- In the Properties windows, click the Advanced Settings tab
- In the Transfer Mode box that represents your CD/DVD drive (typically Device 1), open the drop down menu and select PIO Only
- Click OK and exit all windows.
If this does not resolve your issue, then you will need to go back using the above procedure and change the Device 1 in step #9 back to “DMA if available”. Then, change Device 0 to “PIO Only” in the Transfer Mode box.
Device 0: Primary IDE Channel
Device 1: Secondary IDE Channel
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rogtkqvjlfrmzklwwell, hi admin adn people nice forum indeed. how’s life? hope it’s introduce branch ;)