BC, since you are MCSE, I will save time to not explain some basic stuff.

As far as my experience tell, I will never ever ever install intel ATA
driver. The reason is simple, controller works fine without it, ATA5 can be
enabled anyway, as long as you have installed intel chipset driver. There's
no useful feature make me MUST install it. Also, ATA storage driver cause a
lot of problems, especially CD writer problem, many cases that CD writers
won't function (won't write) unless ATA storage driver is removed.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "bc" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 1:21 AM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Technique to keep device drivers and apps after inst
alling new MOBO


>
> One issue I found with the P4 chip and the FIC MOBO used  is that when I
> tried to install the Intel Ultra ATA Storage Driver after rebooting I
would
> get a critical device error which would halt the loading of the OS. I had
to
> go to safe mode and remove the install of this device. After that I would
> get a disk error message that  would require a thorough Scan Disk to get
rid
> of this annoying message prior to Windows initialization. The end result
is
> that I couldn't install this particular device for the chipset. I am
> wondering if this could be the cause of the unwanted and independent
> persistant Suspense mode. I have disabled all Suspense and sleep modes in
> both bios and the OS.
> What a strange trip it has been
>

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