[RESOLVED] pci-ide controller

[symons]

I have a houston 717 mb, celeron pII300 with
LX chipset. After installing win 98 I received the
noide beside my pci-ide controller. I tried loading
the drivers off my win98 cd, but windows was
unable to find them. the c and d drives are now
running in real mode.

[schultzz]

What is the D: drive? A CD-ROM drive? If so, what kind is it? Are the two devices on the same cable in the computer?

Have you scanned for viruses? This can cause the same symptoms when Windows detects a file loading in that it doesn't recognize as "safe".

Have you tried running the drive with the D: device removed? If so, does this solve the problem?

Let us know...perhaps the additional info will help you solve the problem...

[This message has been edited by schultzz (edited May 12, 1999).]

[CompuDocs]

If you are familiar with the registry, try this.

HKEY Local_Machine
System
CurrentControlSet
Services
VXD
IOS

Then delete the NOIDE entry.

Reboot

Good Luck,

Charlie

[Myles]

How does the NOIDE get into the registry and what does it mean? I ask because I have the dreaded Yellow Exclamations on my PCI IDE controller. I removed the controller in Device Manager and let Win95 reinstall it but the Yellows came back with it.

[stevet]

The "noide" key usually gets put into the registry when Win95 thinks that your IDE controller is not compatible with its 32-bit drivers. This will typically happen when you, for example, upgrade your motherboard without reformatting the hard drive. When Win95 starts up for the first time, it will halt the system and give you a blue screen telling you that your IDE device is not compatible with 32-bit disk access. Then it will tell you that real-mode drivers will be used and you have to restart your computer. After you restart, you will have the yellow flags on your IDE controllers and there will be a noide key in your registry with a value of 01.

To fix it, you need to go into regedit and delete noide. I'm on an NT machine right now, so I can't give you the exact path. Just do a search of your registry for "noide" then delete it and restart your computer. Win95 will redetect your IDE controller and use the correct 32-bit drivers.

Steve



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[Darren Wilson]

little tips for the NOIDE reference for win98:-

on the win98 cd there is a ready made fix for this. Just go to the \tools\mtsutils\ directory there is a file called NOIDE.INF. copy this file to a blank floppy, and if the IDE controllers are remmed out, just pop the flopy in & right click the file, then select install.

Job done, no searching the registry for hte offending key reference.

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[This message has been edited by Darren Wilson (edited May 22, 1999).]

[This message has been edited by Darren Wilson (edited May 22, 1999).]