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Need ABIT BH-6 Drivers (Yellow Exclamation next to IDE)

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First post, by C0deHunter

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Hello all,
I have a PIII-800E and Abit BH6, and when I install Win98SE, I have a yellow exclamation mark next to my Primary IDE controller (dual fifo) (I have an 80GB WD hard drive).

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NOTE: These two images are not mine (they are from the article), but are very similar (I have a Slave WD Hdd, but it does NOT have a yellow exclamation mark on it)

I came across this article:

MS-DOS Compatibility Mode problems on PCI IDE controllers
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/solve-ms … eshooting-tips/

But it did not solve my problem.

This website has some useful info and downloads, and I managed to download Intel_i4x0_3.20.1008_Win95-XP drivers, but it did not help.

https://soggi.org/motherboards/abit/BE6.htm#driv

Can anyone help please?
Thanks!

PIII-800E | Abit BH-6 | GeForce FX 5200 | 64MB SD-RAM PC100 | AWE64 Gold | Sound Canvas 55 MKII | SoftMPU | 16GBGB Transcend CF as C:\ and 64GB Transcend CF D:\ (Games) | OS: MS-DOS 7.1-Win98SE-WinME-Win2K Pro (multi-OS menu Using System Commander 2K)

Reply 1 of 4, by dionb

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Odd. i440BX should have native support in Win98SE, so no drivers needed. In any event, that exclamation mark isn't saying you're lacking drivers (in which case you'd seen an 'Unknown Device') but that Windows is having trouble addressing the device. Given you're linking to MS-DOS compatibility stuff I'm assuming you're also running DOS on this machine, maybe with DOS (non-PnP) hardware. This could be an IRQ conflict on IRQ 14. Could something else be set to that?

Reply 2 of 4, by C0deHunter

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Thanks for your response. No, I am not running any DOS.

PIII-800E | Abit BH-6 | GeForce FX 5200 | 64MB SD-RAM PC100 | AWE64 Gold | Sound Canvas 55 MKII | SoftMPU | 16GBGB Transcend CF as C:\ and 64GB Transcend CF D:\ (Games) | OS: MS-DOS 7.1-Win98SE-WinME-Win2K Pro (multi-OS menu Using System Commander 2K)

Reply 3 of 4, by kaputnik

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Using the same board in one of my rigs, never had any problems with the native W98SE drivers. Would also guess at an IRQ conflict of some kind, you can use msinfo32.exe to figure it out.

Have you tried disabling some stuff like serial ports, parallel ports, etc, in BIOS, to free up some IRQs? You might have to reinstall the drivers by deleting them from the device manager and restart the computer afterwards.

Reply 4 of 4, by C0deHunter

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SOLVED:

It was a bad Hdd: I replaced it with another one, and now the exclamation does not show (had to re-install Win98SE on the replacement Hdd)

PIII-800E | Abit BH-6 | GeForce FX 5200 | 64MB SD-RAM PC100 | AWE64 Gold | Sound Canvas 55 MKII | SoftMPU | 16GBGB Transcend CF as C:\ and 64GB Transcend CF D:\ (Games) | OS: MS-DOS 7.1-Win98SE-WinME-Win2K Pro (multi-OS menu Using System Commander 2K)

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