Hard Drive in PIO mode

[Avdalim]

Hello,

 

I discovered to that my hard drive is stuck in PIO mode which explains why for around the past month it take 30+ seconds to launch something like firefox. I've looked at dozens of tutorials online to fix this problem and the consensus seems to be to go into your IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers in device manager and manually enable DMA mode. The issue is I don't have these controllers in my device manager. It's not that there are no controller under the tab, it's that this tab doesn't exist for me at all. Some website say I need to fiddle with BIOS settings and whatnot, but I'm hoping some bright minds on here can help me out. I'm not great with computers so give it to me in layman's terms if you know how to re enable my IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers tab.

[Master Disaster]

Need more info..

 

What makes you think your drive is in PIO mode?

What's your motherboard?

What's your HDD?

How is it connected?

 

Haven't heard of PIO mode since Win 9x days TBH.

[Avdalim]

The symptoms of my computer match like 99% of the thing people who discovered they were in PIO mode had. The pc im having this problem on is a HP pavilion HPE. It's many years old now which may play a large factor here, but it was upgraded to windows 10 after coming with windows 7 initially. All parts are stock  and nothing impressive. It's a Seagate st31000524as. I'm not sure what the motherboard is.