Clearing yellow exclamation marks in system properties??

[Mntsnow]

Rossier,

The reason Abit suggest updateing to Win98 is because it has "built-in" support for BOTH of those devices.....What they are needing is drivers for "Buss Mastering for the IDE devices and USB drivers. for the USB to work correctly you need to be using Win95C with ALL the patches. This is the reason Abit recommended Win98.

How to do it:
If you have Win95C with all the updates.

In device manager click on "update driver" on the device that has the yellow mark and it will walk you thru installing the drivers. It will then have you reboot the system. then do it for the other device. (depending on your system configuration you might have to "play" with the settings a bit if you are short on "IRQs" and such.

Good Luck

Mntsnow

[Rossier]

I am a poor person, only have 95b, 2 copies.My brother says his version of 95b has the USB support. I can't find it on either of my 95b's. Perhaps my brother has 95c not 95b.
I hope, I hope, I hope.

[Mntsnow]

Roosier,

You can still find the patches for Win95b to get usb support but it still was flaky at best. They started to get it stable with win9c and have only become solid with win98. Find ALL the win95B patches and get them installed and then download the USB support pack and then istall it. then go to your motherboards website and download the "latest and greatest drivers" for your board and hopefully you will get rid of those yellow marks and have a system that supports what your motherboard does /forum/biggrin.gif

Mntsnow

[jbyron]

The easy way if you dont need usb is to diable it in bos
otherwise try this site
http://www.aesystems.com/usb_install.html

[Rossier]

Recently purchased a new MB. Installed it a week ago, and now I'm trying to "tune" it up. Presently trying to eliminate the two yellow exclamation marks:

In Hard disk controllers one is at PCI IDE controller

Second Below "Other Devices" at PCI Universal Serial Bus.

I am assuming that this is the cause of
these two statements 1 Compatibility mode paging reduces overall system performance. 2 partitions reflecting: Drive X: using MS-DOS compatability mode file system.

I contacted Abit and their response was "UPGRADE to 98". I am quite happy w/95b but
would like to resolve these issues.

I have tried loading the driver package that came with MB but it won't accept it when
following their install directions. In autoexec.bat I have one short statement deleting "Temp Files" at bootup. Config.sys has nothing in it. Thanks for all help.

95b, abit BX6-2,network card, SCSI adapter w\2 SCSI cdroms, OC'ed during gameplay, 2 hdd's, 300A celery.



[This message has been edited by Rossier (edited 08-26-99).]

[philipg]

I just did this to a computer for my last class at night schhol.

The hard drive was removed from one PC to another and had the yellow exclamations in it. I did a remove in device manager of everything and upon reboot the computer started to find each item one at a time. Then I did add new hardware from the control panel and win95 found almost all of the rest. Next reboot it found a couple more items. After that items were missing so I did another add new hardware find and it found the bus system, on reboot the computer installed the basic drivers and after it was done I installed the drivers that came with the board successfully.

At some point you may find that you need to install PCI bus and ISA bus drivers manually (before you add yours) then delete them( because you will have conflicts) after deleteing, windows on rebooting will find the busses on its own and will install the correct drivers all by itself.

This procedure involved alot of:

1) trial and error
2) rebooting.

[Death To Mel]

When ever replacing a major component like a mb you need to delete everything in the device manager because some of the drivers are likely for the old mb.