[RESOLVED] IDE Window 95 Driver Problem

I have had this problem recurr, like 5 or six times. That problem would be that I would just my computer and get an error message then I would have Exclamation points (!) in front of my primary and secondary IDE controllers. The only fix I have found is to reload windows. If anyone has a suggestion on why this might be happening I would be gratful.

My System:

333 mhz K6-2
Asus P5-A Mother board not sure about bios version.
64 megs ram
6.1 gig hard drive Primary, 36X Cdrom as slave
2.1 Gig hard drive Primary, 1 Gig as slave
Both are normal IDE drives

Diamond Monster Fusion Graphics Card
Diamond MX300 Sound Card
Windows 95 First release

Would an upgrade to 98 help or should I just put up with it?

Thanks

What error are you getting when this happens ?

Win95 first-release had a LOT of hardware problems. That is why they released so many patches. If you do not have the money for Win98, you will at LEAST want to upgrade from your version of windows to Win95b OSR2 (Or higher if they Have it) and the Y2K patch. This is available at the Microsoft site, but I REALLY don't have time to find it because MS has a VERY disorganized site https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2000/04/1.gif

Anyway, good luck !
-Steve Zap

I get a message that says some of my Drivers are missing or have been deleted and that that windows will be using MS-DOS compatibility drivers. These a 16bit drivers which degrade the preformance of my system.

just wondering, do you have anything loading in your autoexec and config files that may be loading the 16 bit drivers??/ if so rem them out.
I've had that problem before, and have had to run regedit from the start menu in win95... from there, I search for "noide", and if it finds this, I modify the value from 01 to 00, and this usually fixes the problem.
Hope this helps!!!
Alicia

Also...are you sure you don't have a virus? Windows 95 keeps a list of drivers it believes are 'safe' and if any load in that it can't ID it will assume it is a real-mode driver and run in 16-bit MS-DOS compatibility mode. Thus, if a virus loads in when you boot up, Windows slows down.

This may also explain why you are missing some files...

[This message has been edited by schultzz (edited June 10, 1999).]

run ' regedit ' from the run box.

Search for NOIDE ( should be under ' HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE-SYSTEM-CURRENTCONTROLSET-SERVICES-VXD-IOS ') and either delete it or change the value from 01 to 00.

Also remove any real-mode drivers from the autoexec.bat & config.sys

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