Hi I recently had a problem where my CDROM drive disappeared on me. I was searching for a solution on Computing.net and one post suggested that I go to this registry entry.... "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\IOS" and delete the entry "Noide" on the right hand side. After I rebooted, I had my cdrom back, which I am really gratefull for but I was just wondering if anybody knows what "noide" is and why it cancelled my cdrom on me. And if deleting "noide" was a bad thing to do or not? Thanks alot! Harv

IDE also stands for integrated development environment. IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) is a standard electronic interface used between a computer motherboard's data paths or bus and the computer's disk storage devices. The IDE interface is based on the IBM PC Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) 16-bit bus standard, but it is also used in computers that use other bus standards. Most computers sold today use an enhanced version of IDE called Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics (EIDE). In today's computers, the IDE controller is often built into the motherboard. IDE was adopted as a standard by American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in November, 1990. The ANSI name for IDE is Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA). The IDE (ATA) standard is one of several related standards maintained by the T10 Committee. If it worked it was OK!

"noide" is used for SCSCI drives

Hi Jim, Harvey, hello everyone The NoIDE entry will be created by Windows when you start your computer if there is a problem loading the device drivers. What would cause this and why? First off, there is Real-Mode drivers and Protected-Mode drivers. Real-Mode drivers are loaded before Windows starts to load. These are drivers that will load via the autoexec.bat and config.sys files allowing for the device to be used in DOS-Mode. Now Windows starts loading up and in the process will load the Protected-Mode drivers. To put it simply, sometime the Real-Mode drivers and the Protected-Mode drivers just don't get along. :-) If they are not getting along, Windows cannot load the Protected-Mode drivers and when that happens it also creates the NoIDE entry in the registry. The entry prevents Windows from making future attempts to initialize the protected-mode driver. Hope this answers your question. Best Regards, Mesich

Hello again everyone, I almost forgot. :-) And if deleting "noide" was a bad thing to do or not? Deleting the NoIDE entry is not a bad thing. It is nothing to be concerned with as long as it doesn't continue to happen. Even then you don't need to be concerned. :-) You can always come back to Computing.net and someone will surely help out. The NoIDE is fairly common. It's common enough that Microsoft put a noide.inf file on the Win98 CD. :-) The .inf file will remove the entry from the registry so you don't have to get into the registry and remove it yourself. I think that's it. :-) Best Regards, Mesich