UPDATED: (More Problems) Problems with primary and secondary Ultra ATA controllers on windows

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Hello, I was going to pla ythis game today (MAX PAYNE) and well when i popped the cd in my drive, the drive wouldn't autorun it like it always did. So I went to My computer to double click on the CD drive, and the drive isn't there anymore! So I go to the windows contro lpanel and find that I have the yellow Asterisk besides my Primary and Secondary Ultra ATAT controller devices, in my hard disk controllers group. I tried updating the drivers but windows only finds the same drivers I have and says it can do nothing. This hasn't happened to me before and i don't knwo what to do. My system is working fine except i can't use my cd-rom drive. My cd-rom drive entry is now gone from my device list i nthe system panel also. Anyone know what i can do t o fix this problem?Thanks in advance

My system specs are:
1.4ghz thunderbird
ECS k7s5A
WD 20.0gb hard drive
256mb ram
radeon video card
sony 52x cdrom drive

 

[FalseChristian]

I had the same problem as you and I had to uninstall Intel's UATA controllers and just use the .inf file instead. But, I can't enable DMA on my 40.9GB Fujitsu UATA hard-drive.

 

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Thanks for the advice, I will try that later tonight, for now ill wait to see if someone has another opinion. Thanks again

 

[bacillus]

you didn't say what OS you're using but if you're using win9x/ME then look for the NoIDE entry in your registry.
Click Start, then Run... , and type regedit
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\IOS
if you should see a value named "NoIDE". Delete it, close regedit and reboot!

 

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Sorry! I knew i forgot something, i'll try that, thanks a lot!

 

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i am suing WIN98 SE. Just checked on m yregistry and under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\IOS I only have three "names":

(Default) (Value not set)
Start 00
StaticVxD "*IOS"

that is all, any ideas? thanks again

 

[RickH]

Strange--I had the same thing happen this week. I have a promise ATA133 card creating the problem. Both onboard IDE contrlers were dead. As a quick fix I put the CD on the Promise card. I will try your regedit. RRRRRRRR

 

[bacillus]

assuming that you haven't installed incorrect ide drivers, boot the pc with a good win98 startup floppy & at the A: prompt type "fdisk /mbr" & hit enter. remove the floppy & reboor to see if the drives are back!

 

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Ok, I now have to reboot my pc 2 times-3 times to enter windows, and I my motherboard is also giving me checksum errors every once in a while (i got two checksum errors about a week ago o nthe same day, haven't since).

The reason why i have to rebbot 3 times is that If i turn on my computer, it will give me an error right before entering windows that "cannot read from drive c:". Then i have to reboot and enter in safe mode and remove the controller drivers. Then i reboot, windows detects the drivers, I install them and I pick the option to NOT RESTART WINDOWS, because if i do its the same process all over. When i pick to NOT RESTART is when i can use the pc (like now). I should also add that the pc is running slower, especially hard disk tasks, and my cdrom hasn't worked either since the beginning of my problems.

Please help. Someone told me it might be my motherboard: K7S5A, but i would like to avoid having to RMA it, cause ive never done it, and i am afraid it will take too long But i will RMA it if i have to. Please help me

 

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Last bump before i put this baby to sleep

 

[ScrapSilicon]

go get a new CMOS battery....reset the BIOS...you have your ECS driver CD? go into if you can get to it your Control Panel DeviceManager see your CD devices...dbl click...uninstall/remove any and all....do not reboot yet....see IDE controllers...dbl click uninstall/remove then reboot...make sure you have both Win 98 CD and your ECS drivers CD...if it asks for them ,edit. battery and BIOS reset optional try other first