Help, can't enable DMA

I am running a MSI Neo Platinum and I went to my Device Manager (XP Home) to click where you can enable DMA, and there was no box to do this.  
Will an updated driver fix this?  How do I enable DMA when my pc currently won't let me.

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Originally posted by hacker
Hi painiac,
I believe that since 98SE, any drive will automaticaly be set to it's highest PIO or DMA setting.
Could be wrong, but remember reading that in a help question when trying to the same thing you are trying to do many moons ago.
You are correct. The DMA is set to auto config ALWAYS, the only other possible change is to manualy select PIO

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