Drew,

From Device Manager/Hard disk controllers, select the PCI Bus Master IDE
Controller  and remove it .  Then reboot the PC and let Win98 redetect the
controller.

Tim Klymkow

----- Original Message -----
From: Drew Watson <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 1:40 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Serious System Problem, any help?


>     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".
<SNIP>

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