Problem with IDE channel driver

[Spinal]

For some reason the past few days evertime windows starts it pops up
with the add new hardware box wanting drivers for the IDE Channel.

But it wont install the drivers and gives the following error.

There was a problem installing this hardware:

IDE Channel

An error occured during the installation of the device

Driver is not intended for this platform.

This box appears twice (each IDE channel), yet if i go into the device
manager, IDE Channel is listed twice with the yellow circle and black ?
icon. Clicking properties and it says

The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28)

To reinstall the drivers for this device, click Reinstall Driver.

click reinstall drivers, then it comes up with the first error i get
when windows starts (Driver not intened for this platform).

Now either it does or it dosent want drivers, its really starting to
annoy me now haiving to do this each time windows starts up.

Does anyone know how i can sort this problem out

[Steve N.]

Spinal wrote:
> For some reason the past few days evertime windows starts it pops up
> with the add new hardware box wanting drivers for the IDE Channel.
>
> But it wont install the drivers and gives the following error.
>
> There was a problem installing this hardware:
>
> IDE Channel
>
> An error occured during the installation of the device
>
> Driver is not intended for this platform.
>
> This box appears twice (each IDE channel), yet if i go into the device
> manager, IDE Channel is listed twice with the yellow circle and black ?
> icon. Clicking properties and it says
>
> The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28)
>
> To reinstall the drivers for this device, click Reinstall Driver.
>
> click reinstall drivers, then it comes up with the first error i get
> when windows starts (Driver not intened for this platform).
>
> Now either it does or it dosent want drivers, its really starting to
> annoy me now haiving to do this each time windows starts up.
>
> Does anyone know how i can sort this problem out

Was this an upgrade from a previous version of Windows?

Have you tried to download and install the motherboard drivers for WinXP
from the computer or motherboard manufacturer?

Steve

[R. McCarty]

You'll see duplicated IDE controllers on some motherboards that
provide both traditional PATA (Parallel-ATA) and SATA (Serial-
ATA) channels.
You probably need the Chipset drivers for your particular board.
(Intel, Via, SiS, nVidia) to correctly define those system devices.
Untangling this type of problem isn't easy. It's hard to remove the
IDE controllers from Device Manager without a little Registry type
of editing.
Do you have any type of add-in PCI cards that might provide
any drive support ? Also, have you checked your BIOS setup to
see how motherboard based controllers are configured ?

"Steve N." > wrote in message
nk.net...
> Spinal wrote:
>> For some reason the past few days evertime windows starts it pops up with
>> the add new hardware box wanting drivers for the IDE Channel.
>>
>> But it wont install the drivers and gives the following error.
>>
>> There was a problem installing this hardware:
>>
>> IDE Channel
>>
>> An error occured during the installation of the device
>>
>> Driver is not intended for this platform.
>>
>> This box appears twice (each IDE channel), yet if i go into the device
>> manager, IDE Channel is listed twice with the yellow circle and black ?
>> icon. Clicking properties and it says
>>
>> The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28)
>>
>> To reinstall the drivers for this device, click Reinstall Driver.
>>
>> click reinstall drivers, then it comes up with the first error i get when
>> windows starts (Driver not intened for this platform).
>>
>> Now either it does or it dosent want drivers, its really starting to
>> annoy me now haiving to do this each time windows starts up.
>>
>> Does anyone know how i can sort this problem out
>
> Was this an upgrade from a previous version of Windows?
>
> Have you tried to download and install the motherboard drivers for WinXP
> from the computer or motherboard manufacturer?
>
> Steve
>