Carroll,
I teach Computer Maintenance and Repair classes at my school and I ran into
this same problem on about four computers. Turns out that I had the NYB
virus on these computers. I ran a Viruscan boot disk and cleaned the virus.
Afterwards everything was OK.
Bill Havard
----- Original Message -----
From: Carroll Grigsby <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 11:50 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] IDE controller problem


> I'm in the process of upgrading my son's computer with a new TMC AI5VG+
> motherboard,  KMD K6-2 450 chip, and 64 mb PC 100 RAM. Installed Win 98
> SE OEM version to a hard drive that had been un-partitioned with fdisk;
> the install CD took care of repartitioning and formatting. Got system up
> and running; accessed web, played games. OK. But, going to the System,
> Devices, there is a yellow exclamation at the Primary IDE controller;
> the accompanying message says that it either isn't installed, not
> working properly or does not have the drivers installed. Tried
> installing VIA drivers from CD, but they seem to have no effect. Tried
> deleting the device, but Windows won't let me do that; I have to delete
> the VIA Busmaster IDE controller first. If I do that, Windows can no
> longer access the drive, and I enter control-alt-del Hell. If I reboot,
> Windows proudly announces that it found some new hardware, and proceeds
> to install the same stuff, but adds an extra Secondary IDE controller
> and VIA Busmaster.
> The hard drive is a Western Digital AS21600H, and was installed about 18
> months ago (warranty replacement). I've compared the BIOS settings with
> those on my FIC VA-503+ board (which uses the same VIA chipset), and I
> haven't found much difference. There is one setting that may be
> incorrect - IDE prefetch mode is disabled. I'm not sure what that means,
> and the manual is no help.
> -- Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> Carroll Grigsby
>
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