IDE DRIVER PROBLEM

[Kitomaru]

Hi, I know it's my first post, but I have looked everywhere for a solution.

Every now and then, I reformat my hard drive because I am terrible at keeping it organized. Every time I reformat my hard drive, I get this bug. I usually can fix it, but I either cant remember or it isnt working this time. These are the details I know:

Asus P4P3 Motherboard
Intel P4 2.8 GHZ

I tried using Intel Application Accelerator, but it made no difference or I didnt do it right.

What the bug does:

Whenever I play Counterstrike, it will lose sound or crash.
When I install a big file from CD (World of Warcraft) it will freeze the computer after 50-60% of transfer. Frozen stiff, cant even move the mouse.
Whenever I was playing with the Voice on computer (Control Panel-> Speech) and played it back a few times, crashed.

Someone plz help, I already tried going into the registry and altering Slave n master ID registries. Plz post, I can't do anything until this is fixed....

 

[montag451]

HI - welcome to the forums.

Have you tried running the disk manufacturer's utility. It can be downloaded from their website.
Alternatively, SEAGATE has a tool that you can use on any hdd. - called seagate tool.

Try running that and see what it comes up with.

Meanwhile.
Could you look in
control panel/admin tools/event viewer.
Look for some X and ! in application and system logs,.
Post back with the SOURCE, EVENT ID, and any corresponding text.
If you could just post the errors with the approximate timestamp of the problems, that would be great.

 

[Kitomaru]

Thanks, I will be running the bootdisk shortly.

I appreciate the help!

 

[Kitomaru]

Seagate made me a boot disk, and when I booted, it went very fast without really stopping and left me at a command prompt saying Thanks for using Seagate.
C:\>

As for the system log viewer, here are a few


Source: System Error
1003

I have gotten that one a few times, and in the registry, 1003 is an IDE driver thing for me. Dont know if that is related.

 

[Kitomaru]

Anybody have a solution?

 

[Kitomaru]

a little over 3 hours without doing anything but sit and refresh every now and then, and no help...Please somebody have a solution??

 

[Kitomaru]

No Suggestions? I tried changing my bios to one that said "More Compatible With Direct Memory Devices" and same error, and it said cleared CMOS at startup.

 

[aGreenAgent]

I have no idea, but I've had this happen before. I forget how I fixed it.


Might as well try this....
On device manager, open up the IDE controller, and go to the properties of whichever controller your HD is on. Make sure your HD is set to DMA mode, and not PIO.

 

[Kitomaru]

I saw this on a post but how do I do that???

 

[aGreenAgent]

Do this:

Go to start->control panel.

Then open up system.

Click the hardware tab, then go into device manager.

Then under the catagory IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, select the one that corresponds to your hard drive (if you don't know which one that is, guess, then try the other if you're wrong). Right click on it, then go to properties. Go through the tabs on that window, and look for something about the transfer mode of your hard drive. You want some form of DMA.

 

[Kitomaru]

I know how to get to the IDE ATA/ATAPI Driver Properties, but I cant find anything to change to DMA or whatever on any of em...

 

[Kitomaru]

Sorry for double post, but when I go to driver resource tab, it wont let me change any of them...I see I/O Range and Memory Range as 2 possible values to change.

 

[aGreenAgent]

You need to find the controller and hit properties, not the actual drive.

 

[Kitomaru]

Ahh, crap I have no idea where to find the controller.

Edit: IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers

I go to General Tab, Device Usage drop down is grayed out and it says working properly in text box.

Driver tab I can view driver details, shows some DLL's it uses. (lPrtCnst.dll, IdeChnDr.sys)

Under driver tab I can also update (Finds no updates) Roll back (Nothin to roll back to) and uninstall (I tried, rebooted, and it installed same one again)

Resources tab the Change Setting button is grayed out, It has this table of Resource Type and following value
I/O Range F000-F00F
Memory Range FEBFFC00-FEBFFFFF

That's it...

 

[aGreenAgent]

Controller

Right there, if you have an nVidia board it'll look like that, if you have a Via or some other chipset it'll be similar.

 

[Kitomaru]

Yeah that's where I went, I'll link to a screenshot of mine in a sec


Edit: Here is screenshot of device manager selection and all the tabs of property menu

 

[aGreenAgent]

Go to the properties of the primary IDE channel.

 

[Kitomaru]

Here is properties of primary

 

[Kitomaru]

Here is a list of compatible hardware found on Update Driver

 

[aGreenAgent]

Yeah, get new drivers, then see if it's there

Also, did you type your motherboard model correctly? I don't see that model on the Asus website.

 

[Kitomaru]

P4P3-X

 

[aGreenAgent]

It's P4PE-X, and download this and run it if that update driver thing you just posted doesn't work.

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts...ullName=All+Operating+Systems&lang=eng

 

[Kitomaru]

I tried the link you gave me, it didnt really do anything....I'm just gonna reformat again and see if I cant run it then.

 

[aGreenAgent]

Then I'm not liking Intel's drivers.

Intel.

 

[Kitomaru]

Reformatted...Same problem...what drivers to install? I tried application accelerator that came on my mobo CD and it had same problems X_X