loaded wrong drivers now low performance from drives

[billyzbear]

I put a new system together and I installed a dvd drive. Without thinking I loaded the drivers off of the floppy. When I rebooted the drive where working real slow. When I looked in device manger/performance it said both drives where configured for dos mod. From what I remember the drivers where for a os that is not windows. I messed with a bunch of settings and finally reloaded windows 98se with a format. Now in device manger/performance it says everything is great but things still seem a little slow. During the boot sequence there is still this referance to the drives working in dos and the writeing is green which wasn't there before I did this dumb mistake. How do I make it all better? There is nothing in add and remove programs. This is with windows 98se.

 

[LED]

Go into Safe Mode and delete the items and drivers from the Control Panel/System Props and reboot

 

[billyzbear]

Do you mean device manager? I removed them in device manager but not in safe mode. That didn't do it. Would it be the registry? How do you boot in safe mode?

 

[LED]

Originally posted by: billyzbear
Do you mean device manager? I removed them in device manager but not in safe mode. That didn't do it. Would it be the registry? How do you boot in safe mode?

Yes, device manager... hehe I'm getting tired...anyways you have to do it in Safe Mode on Win 98 cause there's usually dupes for everything in case the OS doesn't load correct

 

[billyzbear]

Great I'll try that, to get it to boot to safe mode I would press what key on boot up?

 

[LED]

LOL...F8 key

 

[billyzbear]

Thanks man. I let you know how it goes tomorrow when I see my buddy. I really hope this works I don't want to reformat.

 

[billyzbear]

Well, that didn't work. Is there something else I can try?

 

[LED]

Hmmm back @ it...click start, run then type in "sysedit" and clear out the AUTOEXEC.BAT...also do you have DMA enabled on the DVD?

 

[billyzbear]

Sorry, I don't have it in front of me. Should I have dma enabled and where do I find that out? It seems to me since it comes up during boot up it's in the boot sector.

 

[Viper96720]

What motherboard is it? Get the drivers you need and put them someplace easy to remember. Then go to device manager and remove all the ide device drivers. Then go to add hardware wizard and do a manual install. Browse to the location you downloaded the drivers. Instead of let windows find the driver for you.

 

[billyzbear]

The problem is I loaded the installation disc for ms-dos operating system. Is there away to go into dos and remove them? Motherboard is a epox 4g4a.

 

[LED]

Originally posted by: billyzbear
The problem is I loaded the installation disc for ms-dos operating system. Is there away to go into dos and remove them? Motherboard is a epox 4g4a.

That's why I suggested clearing out your AUTOEXEC.BAT as that pretty much is your DOS files for the OS along with the config sys
I PMed you about it