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madmax215 · 19-09-2014, 07:54

The ide driver is a chip on your motherboard you will not be able to repair or check it. First open your computer up and look at your HDD if it has a small red or orange cable then it will be a SATA drive, so you will not a problem there. Then look at your CDrom drives and see if you have the same cable or not. If you have a long gray ribbon cable then that is a IDE cable, trace it back to the motherboard to see were it goes. You may need a light to see but there will be small letters on your motherboard saying IDE1, IDE2, SATA1-4, FDD1, just find the IDE1 port and then make a decision if you need it or not. You may be lucky and it may be a faulty windows driver.

19-09-2014, 07:54	#4
madmax215 Inactive Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 43	Re: Error for IDE controller showing in Event Viewer The ide driver is a chip on your motherboard you will not be able to repair or check it. First open your computer up and look at your HDD if it has a small red or orange cable then it will be a SATA drive, so you will not a problem there. Then look at your CDrom drives and see if you have the same cable or not. If you have a long gray ribbon cable then that is a IDE cable, trace it back to the motherboard to see were it goes. You may need a light to see but there will be small letters on your motherboard saying IDE1, IDE2, SATA1-4, FDD1, just find the IDE1 port and then make a decision if you need it or not. You may be lucky and it may be a faulty windows driver.