HELP HELP dma controller

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in system my direct memory access contoler has the ol' yellow exclamation mark.
But there is two of them one seems fine.
How would two appear?
how can I fix this ,I've tried to update drivers several times.
 
hi,

I am not sure, but does not that exclamation mark signify that you have an irq conflict, and that might explain why there are two.

Check to see that those two devices are not conflicting.

peace.
 
The exclamation mark denotes a problem when loading the drivers for that device. And since you have two of them the system may have loaded the device twice and tried to load the driver as well. One for the correct hardware and one for something just slightly different.

You can do two things here.

1: Remove the offending device from the device manager and reboot. This could cause the system to reload the driver if it finds the device again and 'thinks' it doesn't have the proper driver loaded, or, nothing will happen and your system will be a happy camper.

2: Remove both devices and reboot. This will cause the system to 'find' the new hardware and load the drivers again. This scenario has the best chance of doing everything correctly.

"Why did my system find two devices?" you ask. Good question! Plug and Pray by Microsoft can sometimes find what it wants and load a not so perfect driver for your hardware. Then, later it decides "Oh yeah, I do have different hardware than I thought I did" and loads up new drivers. Leaving the old one there trying to load at startup but with no hardware to support and *PUFF* a yellow mark in device manager.

Question, did you recently do any upgrades that may have updated system files? If so then this could have caused the OS refresh it's hardware list and it may have found different hardware than it had drivers loaded for. This is not uncommon. It should be no big deal to fix this so no worries mate. Make sure you have your OS CD handy or at least a copy of the correct drivers when you do this.

Also, when you get this working correctly make sure your system performance is up to snuff and running at optimum performance (check the performance tab), and make sure that you go back into the hard drive area and recheck the DMA for your drives so they run at peak performance.

Questions, answers, let me know.

Hope this helps you. Good luck.
 
cool I've fixed that up.
Now I've got something at boot up it's one of those echo off and REM things,here it goes

rem-By windows98 Network for Netware upgrade-C:\windows\IsI.com@echo off.
then it has a heap of rem's and then this
rem-by windows98 Newtwork for Netware upgrade-C:\windows\odihlp.exe....

Havn't seen one of these before.
I had one of those days being off work and sick and was downloadind the odd program I found a free sytem tool for regcleaning and file checking and all that.I used a few of its options and 'whamo' problems arise.

I've learnt a lesson 'leave that stuff alone' unless you know what your doing...thanks for getting the first problem fixed. This one must have something to do with internet 'cause I could not log untill I reconfigured dialup etc

thanks again
 
You can ignore the REM statements, unless like me you like REM's stuff..hehehe.... That just means "ignore the following statement".

What problems are you refering too here? When you say Whamo do you mean they showed up as problems inside the utility, or did it report them as problems? Big difference. Be detailed here okay.
 
Yeah, the odihlp.exe and isi.com are network things that must be loaded into memory on startup for certain network functions to be available.
 
Well, actually I believe it's LSL.COM not isi.com. If that was for the Novell network ODI drivers. But since the newer 32bit clients for Netware have the NDIS working properly they don't need the 16bit drivers anymore (LSL and ODI) so the install remarks them out... thus the REM statements.

Again, Peter, what *whamo* issues are you referring too?
 
DS_Sultan, thanks for clarifying what I said, I realized after I posted that I might have implied they were important... their presence and their being REMmed out probably indicates something about the history of the computer... most install programs leave the lines they change behind in these files and comment them out rather than simply remove them...
 
No prob, were all here to help each other. That's what it's all about.
 
I had a problem,all the hardware reinstalled.Took me ages to connect to the internet.I checked dial up etc.
In Control panel/Netwotk/congiguration there is Dialup adapter and TCP/IP it is set to windows logon(no other options) when I look in this box it says-Your Network is not complete.Do you want to continue?..I just press no as I'm not sure of settings ,if any should be there.
 
If all you are doing is using dial-up internet access, you do not need a "complete" network setup. Just a dial up adaptor and TCP/IP bound to it.

Your description suggests to me that this is an older PC which has gone through some upgrades:

1) A DOS or Win 3.1 system connected to a Novell network
2) The upgraded (but not errased) to Windows 95 and Novell Client 32.

OR someone tried installing Novell Client for Windows 3.1 on it, then switched to Client 32 later.

In either case I very much doubt you are using Novell. It sounds like you would benifit from errasing the whole thing and installing fresh, but that is a unpleasent job to say the least so you have to decide for yourself.
 
You could get away with just removing the devices and services from the network control panel and then just doing that side of it. That way, your core OS does not get involved. However, if this PC has indeed been through many upgrades, you are better off starting from scratch. Work? Yes, but worth it in the end.
 
I found out what I did.
I started to install the wrong adapter.
I should have installed microsoft dialup only.I've searched through windows and found thelines mentioned in a autoexec.bat file. But they do not actually appear in autoexec in msconfig.

I did remove all network settings etc and started from scratch ,however the lines still appear in bootup.It does not seem to effect anything at all. So I might leave it till the next fresh install of windows. The pc is about 18 Months old pent 111 ,256 ram,550 mhz processer.
 
And is your system running better now? That is the end result we are looking for yes?
 
yeah-seems to be fine;)
I find it hard to ignore lines like that at boot up though!!
For some reason they bug me. Bit like the crooked picture on the wall. I just gotta fix it...
Cheers to all involved:D
 
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