Windows XP IDE Controller - which drivers?

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I'm havin a problem with Windows XP Pro, Service Pack One, on a Thinkpad 600e (2645-8aj). I'm getting duplicate drivers for my "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller" Device listings. What should be loaded/listed? I get the following;

Intel(r) 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
Intel(r) 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
Primary IDE Channel
Secondary IDE Channel
! Standard Bus Mastering IDE Channel
! Standard Bus Mastering IDE Channel

The "Standard Bus Mastering IDE Channel" and "Primary IDE Channel"/"Secondary IDE Channel" conflict with one-another (the resources in the middle two are red-circle-and-bar'ed out, naming each other as conflicting. The bottom two also conflict with the "HAL".).

(Note: I'm using a Select-a-dock 3 system with a Sony DRU510A DVD-/+RW drive in it)

I get random lockups (during downloading/file transfers) unless I uninstall the !-marked drivers and not-reboot (it reinstalls these drivers upon boot).

This is a FRESH install of XP, too (not an upgrade), with all the updates from Windows Update installed.

I recall something like this happening in Windows98, and an apm2apm.reg file for 98. Is there something like this for XP? Or is there another way to get XP NOT to install the Standard Bus Mastering Ide drivers upon boot?

[G-Man]

Have you installed the Windows XP Supplement Files? http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-40062

G-Man

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I did that, and I still get the above-mentioned listing of drivers. Otherwise, the system is 100% stable (even on 288 total megs of ram with a Hitachi 40GNX 40gb drive on NTFS). Just rebooting is a pain in the ol' LPT-port, lol. I even manually opened the .reg file with Notepad, and manually browsed to the location, and it indeed applied the 'patch', but it didn't work. I've searched IBM's site, and Microsoft as well, and neither one has a clue about this peculiar little problem.

I'm almost tempted to make a seperate hardware profile WITHOUT plug-and-play, to see if that cures it... altho, that will probably mean no USB detection or the like.

Those are my only XP growing pains (moved up to it after windows 98 crashed three times in a week... been three weeks since the install, and not even a hint of a hiccup).

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After a lot of fiddle-pokin, I decided to open the CStateFlags.reg file from the INF supplement package, and manually browse the registry and remove the value. It still installs the conflicting device drivers. So, I re-imported the setting (back to square one).

Last night, I removed the middle two (see first post), and rebooted. It reinstalled all the bottom four (see first post again), with the bottom two !-ed out.

Now, after doing a bit of searching on the web, I've found that there is a registry hack to get Device Manager to stop installing devices on boot, but sadly, I can't get the information from the pages listed.

Does anyone know of a way/registry hack to 'lock' the device manager, and tell it to "stop installing things you aint got!", to "merge" their settings, or to mark a device as not availlable (other than selecting "Disabled in all profiles" in the device properties)? I'd prefer to set the bottom two (see first post) as "not availlable".

Thanks for all the help both in past and in advance!

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http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts ... bmit=Go%21

I don't know how I lucked upon this one, but this is the solution I was looking for... Maybe someone else can use this info when/if they have the same problems I did...

Thanks again!!