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First post, by ole smoky2

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So I have this old computer that has worked fine for the last year or so. Now it shows in control panel a yellow exclamation point next to floppy drive. Properties states that the device cannot find a free I/O address. It's mostly just aggravating to see it because strangely enough the drive works fine and reads any disk I put in it. The only change recently was that I tested some different video cards on the system.

generic beige case
intel 440bx
PIII 450
640 mb ram
ati rage 128 pro
ct 4740 pci sound card
win 98 SE
As stated everything is working fine but that yellow exclamation mark bugs me

any ideas?

Reply 1 of 1, by Jo22

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Hi, it could be DMA issues, maybe. UMBPCI (an UMB tool that used PCI memory) had mentioned this in its readme file, I think.
Programs like EMM386 or memory managers in general can affect ISA DMA.

Anyway, it's just a hint. Maybe your problem is a different one, not sure.

Best regards,
Jo22

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