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pally01 · 03-25-2007, 06:21 PM

Pam, Thanks for the info. I appreciate your efforts thus far and also the speed of your replies. I'm having some issues with the page however. Can you help with this?

Looking at:
Quick solution
If you're not interested in the details, but just want to fix this problem as quickly as possible:
1. Click here.
I click on the link and a page opens with code and such. No warnings appear nor does an execute resetdma.vbs appear. How does one run this link/code?

I looked further down through re-enabling DMA using the Registry Editor and looked at the mine on my machine. I see 4 files numbered 0000 thru 0004 and a fifth named Properties. All are empty.

I believe the advice was ultimately to delete all of these files and they would be recreated by Windows upon restarting. Is that the correct interpretation? However, It also asked to check for the Driverdesc Subvalue until I find the proper I.D.E. channel just before this. With all the files empty, what does that mean?

03-25-2007, 06:21 PM	#5
pally01 Member (10 bit) Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alberta, Canada Posts: 669	Pam, Thanks for the info. I appreciate your efforts thus far and also the speed of your replies. I'm having some issues with the page however. Can you help with this? Looking at: Quick solution If you're not interested in the details, but just want to fix this problem as quickly as possible: 1. Click here. I click on the link and a page opens with code and such. No warnings appear nor does an execute resetdma.vbs appear. How does one run this link/code? I looked further down through re-enabling DMA using the Registry Editor and looked at the mine on my machine. I see 4 files numbered 0000 thru 0004 and a fifth named Properties. All are empty. I believe the advice was ultimately to delete all of these files and they would be recreated by Windows upon restarting. Is that the correct interpretation? However, It also asked to check for the Driverdesc Subvalue until I find the proper I.D.E. channel just before this. With all the files empty, what does that mean?