awake Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 I have a Win98 system on a new gigabyte motherboard. Problem is in the device manager the primary & secondary ide controllers both show with errors against the drivers (yellow exclamation mark). Properties reports that either its an incorrect driver or it's not installed correctly. Tried deleting the parent controller to let windows find it & reload driver at startup. It does this but with same result.I know why this has come about and I've seen the problem before though I can't remember what I did to cure it ...The hard drive with a Win98 system on has been moved to another mobo/cpu and started up. Problem is that with the ide controllers out of action, so are the cd drives.I have copied the mobo driver cd to the hard drive to run it's setup from there which works (ish). But there doesn't appear to be separate (or recognisable) drivers for the ide controllers.Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 Have you checked that your NEW motherboard is compatible with W98.I know that boards I have been buying recently are for XP and/or W2000 only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 Have you checked that your NEW motherboard is compatible with W98.I know that boards I have been buying recently are for XPÂ and/or W2000 only.I don't like the sound of this. Are we Luddites going to be "cast by the wayside" then? It looks as though I really will have to turn over fully to Linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 No need to panic, plenty of W98 boards available. Just making the comment that it's better to check before you buy - just in case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 No need to panic, plenty of W98 boards available. Just making the comment that it's better to check before you buy - just in case.I shall rest much easier in my bed, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awake Posted August 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 The board was bought with XP in mind initially. But now need to preserve the old W98 system.I'll check that out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awake Posted August 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 Nothing to indicate the board isn't supported on Win98. Will try deleting the device and installing win98 over the top.Any other ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 Perhaps contact the manufacturer for a driver. The installation disk should have drivers on it. Check the readme to see if they are 98 compatible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavisMcCarn Posted August 17, 2005 Report Share Posted August 17, 2005 First, make sure you have the chipset, video, network, sound, an any other drivers handy that the new mobo will need.Then, either bring it up in safe mode and delete all of the items in the device manager or run regedit and delete the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum subtree. Reboot and install the drivers.Your problem is that the old mobo is leaving phantom devices behind that are confusing Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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