Go back into device manager and remove everything under disk controllers, then restart.

>many thanks to the response but unfortunately i did as you said but when  i
>opened the device manager in safe mode i only had the primary bus and then
>when i booted in normal mode i still had a mark longside the secondary
>controller, even tried updating driver with Win98 CD and
>C:|windows\options\cabs but no difference.,what am i doing wrong??
>
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