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Hardware shown in BIOS listings 'goes missing' when WinXP starts.

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phowarth:
Yes, there's no problem getting into Safe Mode.
When I do so, everything regarding recognition of storage devices acts the same as in normal XP mode. That is, the same hard drives are listed in My Computer, Device Manager & Disk Management, there are no drives with letters missing and anything attached to the EIDE slave and SATA2 ports is shown in BIOS but again goes missing once Safe Mode has booted.
Similarly, there's still an 'unknown device' listed in Device Manager which Windows can't identify, which I've uninstalled on several occasions but returns on every reboot and for which XP offers to find the driver but always unsuccessfully.

Incidentally, having uninstalled that most recent version of the Intel Q35 driver which Drivermax suggested as an appropriate update, the system now seems pretty stable again with no lockups/BSOD or screen resolution warnings happening yet today.
So again it seems that the glitch is in WinXP's inability to see all of the ports.
Are there other things I can do to narrow down the source of the problem while in Safe Mode?

Shane:
Well short of reinstalling Windows lets properly update the drivers :-)

Is your computer store bought? If so what is the make and model and I will go find the right drivers for it. :wink:

Shane

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