Monday, August 30, 2004
Pondering the Imponderable -- 10:54 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun
Recently, Windows 98 on my kids' computer decided that it wasn't going to recognize the motherboard's second IDE controller. That's bad news since the CD-RW and ZIP drives are on the channel. The BIOS detects the drives at boot-up just fine. If I boot to Linux, it can find the controller and the drives just fine. Windows 98 just refuses to acknowledge that it's there. After a few reboots it seems to find it, but it's incredibly annoying (especially with the high-pitched whining when they can't play their Spongebob game). Actually, if I boot to Linux, access one of those drives, and reboot to Windows, 98 magically discovers the controller and drives. Go fig. And no, I have no intention of trying to upgrade a Celeron 400 box to WinXP.
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