On 20 Apr 99, at 23:23, Gordon Tyler wrote:

> Hi. I searched the PCBUILD archive but didn't find this mentioned.
>
> In Win98 Device Manager/Hard Disk Controllers, I have the yellow
> exclamation mark: Intel 82371AB?EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller,
> device is disabled.
>
> Because I use SCSI & have one SCSI harddrive, may I assume this
> has absolutely no relevance to my system? I have no IDE devices.
>
> I dual boot Win98 & NT Server 4.0 SP4 on PII-450. No problems so
> far with anything else.
>
> I did remove the device but Win98 found it on reboot with the
> same message exclaimed again.
>
> Can I ignore this? Thanks for your help.

  Although it's not in use, Win 98 is finding this device.  Perhaps you have
something enabled in CMOS that lets it remain active.  [For instance, we used
some boards where enabling S.M.A.R.T. for hard drives had this kind of
effect.]

  If a device won't stay deleted, your next best option is to mark it
"disabled in this hardware profile", so WIndows will ignore it even if it
sees it.


David G

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