Aunty Em
Well-Known Member
I'm trying to help a friend sort out a problem with her computer.
She keeps getting this message(she wrote this down foe me):
And there is an exclamation mark on the IDE Controller in Device Manager indicating a conflict.
Can anyone explain exactly what is happening. I believe it is 2 IDE devices trying to use the same resources for some reason.
But how do I go about finding out and sorting it out?
I have not yet seen the comp but it sounds like she has other problems as well. She got it second-hand from someone who built it, but has no driver disc for the motherboard. She recently formatted the drive and reinstalled windows - but not drivers?! Could this be related to the problem? she has no idea what make the motherboard is so I'll have to look inside and find out and go see if I can download them from the manufacturer.
She keeps getting this message(she wrote this down foe me):
Standard IDE/ESDI Hard Disk Controller
This device cannot find any free Interupt Request (IRQ) resources(Cope12? can't read handwriting)
To use device you must disable other
And there is an exclamation mark on the IDE Controller in Device Manager indicating a conflict.
Can anyone explain exactly what is happening. I believe it is 2 IDE devices trying to use the same resources for some reason.
But how do I go about finding out and sorting it out?
I have not yet seen the comp but it sounds like she has other problems as well. She got it second-hand from someone who built it, but has no driver disc for the motherboard. She recently formatted the drive and reinstalled windows - but not drivers?! Could this be related to the problem? she has no idea what make the motherboard is so I'll have to look inside and find out and go see if I can download them from the manufacturer.