scsi & raid controllers

Hi-Found new hardware wizard keeps popping up at start up.Why?
Whe I checked device mgr this is what i found
SCSI and Raid controllers
!(yellow) ACG4TMVQ Ide controller

My computer is a Dell 8250 windows xp home and update 3 installed.

can anyone help in removing this annoying popup.tx

 

scsi and raid controllers

tx for the reply.
in as far as changes,I have installed and uninstalled a variety of prog.None of these remain on the computer.It is not a new build.Computer was bought april 2003 from Dell.Yes computer was working fine for a long time before this error occured.

 

scsi and raid controllers

Steve R Jones

any news on the matter

 

Use the link Find my Service Tag or read how locate it
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&~ck=mn
It will lead you to your drivers.

Get the chipset drivers and any specific drivers for IDE or SCSI/RAID.

 

tx I found this already ,but does doen't tell me what i am looking for,ie what driver or something else

 

I came across the manual
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim8250/K0004bk0.pdf
It talks the yellow ! under the heading Resolving Software and Hardware Incompatibilities.

 

scsi and raid controllers

Tx Mattman for the reply.Although this is a very interesting book I did not find anything that solved my problem.Too bad.I'll just keep looking.From what i make of it,this problem originates from a piece of hardware.Unfortunately I dont know which one.I certainly did not install or uninstall any hardware.so where does it come from.

 

Did you double-click on the listing? It may tell you what the source of the problem is. They say it could be a conflict between that controller and another device.

If it an IRQ conflict, Steve's suggestion may correct it. For some reason Windows can't make the device work now, it must be some other reason than connecting in a new device. Another device may have been allocated the IRQ that the controller requires and they cannot share it.

Check what cards are installed in the PCI add-in slots. Removing those (like a dial-up modem you no longer use) or moving them into another one of the slots can rearrange the allocation of resources (IRQ's).

The only relevant drivers I could see for the 8250 were for the chipset (dated 2002). You should try installing those. Do you still have the original drivers disk? You should check that those are installed.

Matt

 

scsi and raid controllers

hi
double click on the listing.did you mean in device mgr.if thst is the case it didn;t tell me anything about a conflict with some device

 

Yes, that's the suggestion in the manual I linked to. They say to remove the conflicting device, but if it doesn't have a conflicting device you could uninstall the one with the yellow !. I suggest you check for updated drivers first though.

If these suggestions don't work, you could try doing a System Restore back to a time before the problem started happening. The problem there might be is that it is being caused by an (automatic) update and will come back again when the update is reinstalled.

Matt

 

scsi and raid controllers

Hi-tx for the reply. and your help Well for some strange reason,the window that kept popping up has dissapeared.I started my comp several times and no window.However
the item AF^BLNV IDE controller is still yellow flagged in device mgr.I have uninstalled it and reinstalled it without any change.Did a restore without any effect.I think I am going to call Dell and find out how to replace the iude controller or how to fix it.I cant think of anythinmg else I could do.

 

Since your DELL is ancient, you or Dell in the distant past may have installed a PCI-based, IDE "add-on" controller card to expand the number of IDE drives possible from a maximum of four to a greater number.

This expansion controller card may read on Device Manager as a "SCSI" device, because it uses SCSI resources.

In this instance, I must rely on memory regarding a system I built years ago, and make no claims for total recall of the particulars-- but this could provide a clue.

In effect, the IDE expansion controller card bypasses the normal system limit on the number of IDE devices, permitting some nifty improvements in storage-hungry, IDE-only systems. Such expansion controller cards were made by SIIG, and others, but are not nearly so popular today because IDE storage volumes have increased almost exponentially.

The old SIIG card worked its magic by borrowing resources (two IRQs) from the system which are normally assigned SCSI devices. Since the expansion card was intended for IDE-only systems, this was seldom a problem unless the user wished to run both the expansion card AND an SCSI controller, too.

In that case, the user must choose between adding the IDE expansion controller, or adding SCSI devices.

I discovered this sly theft of SCSI interrupts by my SIIG IDE expansion controller when I tried to hand-configure a new SCSI controller, and found the IRQs already had been appropriated by the SIIG device.