Im running a P3 with 128 RAM, a 5 gig hard drive as the MASTER and a 29
gig as the SLAVE.  I built my system about 3-4 months ago and it has run
perfectly ever since.  Yesterday (after having left my computer on all
weekend when i went on vacation), the computer booted up into safe mode and
when restarted, i found that neither CD-DRIVES were recognized by win98 and,
more importantly, in my DEVICE MANAGER I now have yellow exclamation points
next to my PRIMARY IDE CONTROLLER (DUAL FIFO) and my SECONDARY IDE CONTROLLER
(DUAL FIFO).  They claim that "the device is not present, not working
properly, or does not have all drivers installed".  I tried to UPDATE DRIVER,
but as always, what windows help suggests never works (the driver it wanted
to update was the same one active).  Furthermore, my system still RUNS in
normal more but ALL of my hard drives are running in MS-DOS compatibilty mode
file system and things are lagging.  Is this a fluke hardware failure?
PLEASE help!!!   sincerely, Drew Watson

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