Summary: when i start windows i always get a message appearing saying: "your new hardwear is installed but might not work properly untill you reboot" this mess...
Summary: I have a 2.26Ghz p4 @ 533 FSB, with asus p4s533 motherboard with 645DX chipset, and have a problem with my secondary IDE channel. Anything I plug into...
Summary: let me simplify my original question: could having exclimation points over my primary and secondary IDE channels in the device manager cause my compu...
Summary: Have you tried disabling the secondary IDE channel in the bios. I had similar problems with a couple of PC's and both worked fine once the channel had...
Summary: OK. Yesterday I noticed that my system was crawling. Did all the obvious things, checked for virus/trojan, defragged and such to no avail. Ran a sp...
Summary: Cruising along, business as usual. Suddenly notice that a hard drive and CD drive are missing from Windows Explorer. Reboot and see that the BIOS is...
Summary: Windows (device manager) does not recognize my secondary ide channel nor will changes in the BIOS setting. All I want to do is operate my Sony CDRW (...
Summary: I'd start by throwing the hdd on the secondary ide channel and see if it works. Also try the regular ROM. If neither of these work then tell them th...
Summary: Hi, over the last 3 months I have posted a number of messages regarding a problem i'm having with my pc. I have an Asus P4S8X-X motherboard and MSI C...
Summary: everytime i start my pc windows installs 2 ide channels called primary and secondary. It always fails at the end,it says device was not made for this ...
Summary: Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I think I've solved the problem. My boot time is reasonable again. Between the advice above and searches on th...
Summary: Hi I have a problem with my IRQ sharing in WinXP Pro. My IRQ numbers is below : *Before DIsabling Com Port 1 & 2 : IRQ 0 System timer IRQ 1 Standard 1...
Summary: One thing b4 you change the mobo,use the primary channel for your hard drive and use the secondary for the cdrw..disconnect the dvd from the mobo alto...
Summary: dsl: some ideas that may help; 1.some programs have been known to disable DMA to meet their own performance needs. 2. XP has problems enabling DMA on ...
Summary: Here is some stuff to try . Enabling DMA in XP . http://www.blackmaxpc.com/Guides/DMA.htm http://www.xtremepccentral.com/foru...9/2002/05/1/885 http:/...
Summary: I've been having a number of problems installing Win Xp. First the system I have put together.... Asus A7V m/b 128MB SDRam (100) Athlon 900 GeForce 2 ...
Summary: I had this problem in XP with my Dell and the Creative SBLive. I went into Device Manager & then into the properties of the Secondary IDE Channel & s...
Summary: Hi there, Periodically (sometimes after 1 hour sometimes after 2 weeks) my Secondary IDE devices stop responding that is that if I attempt to open the...
Summary: Sometimes Windows will set an optical drive to PIO mode. Most optical drives other than CD-ROM drives (readers, only) will not be able to do all the t...
Summary: After installing Windows XP Pro, it will not recognize the secondary IDE devices (Zip drive and CD-Rom drive). They will show up in Safe-mode just ...
Summary: I have an Abit KG7-RAID motherboard with an Athlon XP 1600+, and 512MB DDR. The video card i'm using is a LeadTek GeForce 3 Ti 500. Here's the proble...
Summary: I have noticed a problem copying files from my CDR to the CDRW since it was returned from a shop for motherboard and hard drive replacement. Just noti...
Summary: Hi Folks, I recently upgraded from NT to XP. My bios can see the cd read device hanging off the secondary ide. XP does not see the secondary ide and h...
Summary: Hello, I have a TOSHIBA laptop running WinXP SP2. Recently the DVD drive (MATs---A DVD-RAM UJ-841S) has problems reading and writing. I suspect it's a...
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