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[trol]

Hi!
I bought a-open AX64 mainboard (it supports ata100, pc133 ram, it has slot 1 on via chipset. Problems began when I've tried to install OS. I've managed to install win 98 because other had hanged while the installer had been searching for hardware. When I opened hardware list is system properties I saw that there is a "yellow exclamation" on Primary IDE channel. When I plugged HD (Samson winner 1,2 GB) in the second IDE channel, yellow exclamation changed location from first to second IDE controller. I've tried with other HD (IBM DESKSTAR 19 GB) but nothing has changed. I've changed RAM from pc133 to pc100- still nothing. I've tried to change the drivers - it doesn't work. Oh... "yellow exclamation"- system told me that he had to use MS-DOS compatible drivers because there is a program on drive C: which needs to have it ON (I don’t know if I translated it well, because I have non-English OS). I don't know what program is it talking about (I have only installed OS :confused: )
Please help
I believe in you
trol

[Bovon]

First of all, I do believe I would have chosen a different user name than trol, LOL...trol is a name slapped on somebody that sells stuff on the internet, then disappears without a trace most times.

Have you tried a different ribbon cable?

Other than that, I can only imagine that the hard drive is defective sence the problem follows the swap from IDE primary to IDE secondary controllers

[Peter M]

So you have something in CONFIG.SYS that makes Windows chicken out from using its own drivers on the IDE controller. Not a VIA problem (as usual I'm tempted to say :rolleyes: )

[NDD]

Peter is right, it's usually some old CD-ROM drivers ...

[trol]

So..
there is no cd-rom pluged in any ide now. Cable is ok, i've chenged it meny times. once OS was installed from LG cd recorder, then from other cd-rom but comp is still acting the same.

[NDD]

Please list your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files here, generally located in C:\