Lost both CD Drives

Since the turn of the century, I am among those in the endless combat with Win98SE shutdown. Wore down 'Shutdown Pro' and 'exits95' whereas both were captured then refused to help shutdown any longer. Windows also killed my last 'shutdown shortcut' long ago.

In going through those countless pages, numerous web sites with endless steps in testing to correct Win98SE shutdown problems (ha,ha)--I now just lost my two CD drives.

In "˜My Computer’ my "˜E’ and "˜F’ drives are no more. In Device Manager, "˜Standard Floppy Disk Controller’ has the yellow mark. Under "˜Hard Disk Controller’ primary IDE and secondary IDE also have the yellow mark.

What in the heck did I do?

Thanks
Steve

 

I think you have corrupted drivers for your primary and secondary IDE controllers, but you may also have tried to update something and wound up with the wrong drivers - now we need to know what your chipset is. You'll find that just uninstalling (remove while in device manager) might not cut it because you have to take out the parent device too.

 

Have an older Pentium II, 350.

 

hciclos:

Thats your processor, commonly called CPU - your chipset will be the chipset on the motherboard and while it more than likely is Intel, it could be something like SIS or VIA and it will have a number associated with it like Intel 440 and maybe even something like Intel 440BX - this will help to identify the necessary drivers.

 

Sorry about not giving this.
I have a GA-686-BX