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OH MY GOD! Please Help!

J

JackDaniels

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I just replaced an Abit BX6-2 with an Abit BF6. After swapping in the Promise ATA/66 controller (that worked fine with the BX6-2) into the BF6, Windows refused to finish booting. The OS exists on a second HD residing on IED-1, not the controller card.

So then I installed the controller card without the HD attached to it and started the system. Win98SE booted this time and promted me to load the driver for the controller card.

When I did, it said that the driver I was installing was older than what was on the system. This is strange because the driver was fine before and this was a fresh install of Win98 SE.

To make a long story short, the system is not accepting any driver (i.e. new or old) and the Device Manager recognizes the Promise controller, but won't accept the driver I have or the one that Win98 is supplying to it.

Any input is greatly appreciated.

Thank You.

Jack

 
did you format the drive or did you just reinstall SE? if you just reinstalled it, it may have found the old driver.

good luck
 
Have you tried removing the hardware from device manager, then rebooting and attempting to reinstall that way?

~Ladi
 
Yeh, check and see if it is listed in device manager, remove it, reboot and reinstall drivers.
 
Thanks for you guys' input. As soon as pulled my head out of my butt, I realized to check the Promise web site for issues such as mine. Sure enough it was there and it was a pretty easy fix.

thanks
jd
 
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