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Re: Primary IDE controller?!?!?!?!
From:
"Glen L. Bowes" <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 5 Oct 1999 18:16:25 -0400
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I've never seen this myself but have read somewhere that a virus can cause
an IDE controller to misbehave in Device Manager. It may not hurt to run a
current virus scanner or two...

-----Original Message-----
    Ok, just recently (although i have had a new 27 gig MAXTOR UDMA drive
for
about a month) win98 has started reporting a "yellow question mark" in
DEVICE
MANAGER for my Primary IDE controller.  WHAT THE?!?!?!?
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