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August 16th, 2005, 09:52 PM
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|  SATA and a vanishing DVD burner...
The trials and tribulations of upgrading...
Putting a new SATA drive into my system seems to have caused problems. On first re-boot a blue screen came up with a message about 16/32 bit driver incompatibilities on the IDE controller ("standard dual PCI IDE Controller") and that it was putting the "child devices" into compatibilty mode (and who wrote that junk as an error message?).
After the re-boot, the IDE DVD burner has vanished from the system, and Device Manager is showing (!)s against all the primary/secondary IDE controllers. Examining the Bootlog shows the drivers (ESDI_506.pdr) are failing to initialise for some reason. And Windows will no longer shutdown...
Some hardware details:
Abit NF8 mobo, windows disk: something IBM IDE and fairly old, new disk Hitachi Deskstar 120Gb SATA. DVD burner and IBM disk on IDE 1, nothing on IDE 2, nothing on SATA 1, Hitachi disk on SATA 1.
Running Win98SE, with every update available from windows update.
Tried getting rid of the NOIDE flag, fiddling with settings in the BIOS, getting a newer driver (NF3 drivers, windows driver, bios)... Removing the SATA drive and re-installing windows fixes the missing DVD burner and driver problems, but that doesn't really help...!
Any ideas for some more ways to attack the problem? | 
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August 16th, 2005, 10:29 PM
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| | Rock of Ages
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sata was never designed with windows 98se/me in mind.... get a copy of xp... less headache
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August 16th, 2005, 10:55 PM
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| | F@H Cheerleader
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I would say Jokostel hit the nail on the head.
Heck your Motherboard wasn't even designed with Win98 in mind. 1/2 j/k
I think its time for you to uprgrade your Operating System.
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August 17th, 2005, 06:35 PM
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| | Human voltmeter
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The issue isn't whether SATA was "designed for Windows 98". SATA can work just fine with Windows 98. The problem with Nvidia's SATA hardware is that they haven't written any Windows 98 drivers for it.
All is not lost, however. You can buy an add-in PCI SATA controller that is Windows 98 compabile for very little $$$. Here's one on newegg that's only $12.50: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16815124022 | |
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August 18th, 2005, 11:46 AM
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| | ATI 4850 FTW!
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Good find Danu. I'd get that then. | |
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