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| Thread ID: 56807 | 2005-04-15 13:53:00 | IDE Controllers Problem in Device Manager | kirwan14 (7904) | Press F1 |
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| 345381 | 2005-04-15 13:53:00 | Hi, I've had a good search on the net & haven't yet solved my prob. I have a dual-boot of W98SE & XP Pro which has been good for 2 years. My prob is I booted into W98 for the 1st time in 2 weeks. My CD drives aren't showing up in My Comp or Device Manager. I checked D.Manager & there are exclamation marks next to the Primary & Secondary IDE Controllers. D.Manager suggested to update the drivers. As I couldn't access a cd drive I had to copy my Mobo drivers from within my XP install into my W98 partition, so I could run the setup from within W98. After installing the "VIA Chipset drivers" section of my MSI mobo cd, W98 rebooted & started installing the drivers. When it was complete, the prob was not fixed. I down/ld the latest hyperion 4 in 1 drivers & installed them, still no good. I also got told to boot W98 in to Safe mode & remove the IDE Controllers & reboot into Windows, but my pc will only boot into Safe mode for my XP installation. I have also restored my W98 registry from msdos mode successfully but this didn't fix it. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated as I don't want to re-install W98 as that changes the boot partition & means I will also have to re-install XP!! |
kirwan14 (7904) | ||
| 345382 | 2005-04-15 21:07:00 | When you copied the drivers off the XP partition did you get the right ones? You should have got the IDE controllers straight off the Win98 CD anyway, not the MB cd. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 345383 | 2005-04-15 21:12:00 | There is sometimes a ide patch on the mother board cd for any os, I think thats whats they are talking about. Do a forum search for failed cdrom, I believe this issue came up about 3 months ago and a fix was given somthing to do with low level drivers |
beama (111) | ||
| 345384 | 2005-04-15 21:15:00 | Take a look in the registry by run -> regedit find HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\IOS If there is a name there called NoIDE, delete it. This will force windows to try to reinitialize the protected mode drivers when you reboot. |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 345385 | 2005-04-15 22:16:00 | There is sometimes a ide patch on the mother board cd for any os, I think thats whats they are talking about. I know - the chipset specific ones. |
pctek (84) | ||
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