Sorry to say, my system is a Packard Bell pentium 90 with 40megs of RAM. It has all original hardware. When I look under System Properties my primary and secondary IDE controllers have yellow exclimation marks beside them. When I click on them the device status display says: This device is not present, not working properly, or does not have all the drivers installed. See your hardware documentation. (Code 10) It says this on both IDE controllers. Also, when I click on performance, it says the following: Compatibility mode paging reduces overall system preformace Drive C: using MS-DOS compatibility mode file system Drive D: using MS-DOS compatibility mode file system I have tried over and over to fix these problems, but can find no solution. These problems have slowed my systems preformace down drastically. Whats your prognosis? Thanks for listening! JJ

A boot sector virus can cause this. Try this simple test: When "starting win95" flashes on the screen, hit f8 and choose command prompt only and run chkdsk and look at the size reported for conventional memory. If it is 2k too small there is a boot virus. The total should be 655360 bytes.

Howdy, A virus in the MBR can cause this problem as well as a few other things. A simpler way to check for a virus in the MBR is to click on the details box that is above where it says the drives are in MS-DOS compat. mode, if under the details tab it says the Master Boot Record has been modified ya have a virus. If no go there take it to a tech since I can name 4 other ways to fix this problem which are to difficult to explain. Laters, Kevin The Tech Dude.