BX6 v2.0 and PCI IDE controller dont work!!

[Gecko]

Under the Device Manager, there are exclamation marks ( ! ) by the primary and secondary ide controller entries.

any info on how to change this? are there a certain set of busmaster drivers that i can get? right now it is "standard dual pci ide controller"

please help me! I can't set up my video card properly because of this.

[ANTONIO E GUERRA]

Have you checked for virus?

[Gecko]

This system hasnt been connected to the internet for a few weeks, and before that i scanned weekly. no additional media of any kind were introduced. all i did was take my hard drive and put it on a new motherboard...

i was thinking maybe it was a funky windows setting...somehow it set all the drives to msdos compatibility mode. I am running scandisk right now, maybe that will help. I took the antivirus software off because it was taking up space for what I wanted to do.

[MR COMPUTER]

Use REGEDIT to check for a NOIDE entry. If you find one,delete it and reboot.

[Gecko]

there is no NOIDE entry in the registry. there are no CDROM drivers in the autoexec.bat or config.sys files.

also, there is NO hard drive entry under "Disk Drives" in the Device Manager. THAT is something ive never seen before.

although i fixed the video driver problem. Would using the EZdrive software that came with my HD to fix the MasterBootRecord be harmful? or would it end up in me reformatting? the win98 "Performance" tab is saying that the MBR was modified, and thats why the compatibility-mode paging has been enabled. Modification Schmodification. This is getting REALLY frustrating


[This message has been edited by Gecko (edited 05-14-99).]

[ANTONIO E GUERRA]

Oh, well, that is completely different. Thanks for the info.
Try not to reinstall the operating system but if this does not work, you need to.
(1) Remove the devices with the exclamation mark;
(2) remove all the devices like sound cards and modems or network cards;
Restart the computer. Windows 95 or 98 will ask to install the cdrom and upgrade the motherboard devices.
After that, if it is necessary, install the cdrom.
Obviously your old motherboard devices drivers are conflicting with the new motherboard.
Remember, if this does not work, have a clean installation of your operating system.

[Gecko]

well, it works now...this is what i did...

my old motherboard had a via chipset....so i deleted any key in the registry that had "via" in it that had to to with that board. still didnt work.

a friend on icq told me to do a "fdisk /mbr" which would force the master boot record to be rebuilt.

it works.


that simple. man, do i feel like a weenie!