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promise ultra 133 TX2 (tm) IDE controller
I have installed a control card for the second hard drive
and it tells me in the control panel, (yellow mark)!win9x- me promise ultra 133 TX2 (tm) IDE controller. It says that windows has chosen not to use this driver. So now what do I do? I contacted the Promise company and they gave me another driver to use. It still halts my system if it uses it. My windowsME system still halts with the message.. "Either memory is insufficient to run KRNL386.exe or the value of the window mem size system.ini file is too Large. You need to run setup program again. System halted. " it is the same message as the first file. I have 512 memory. I have run setup again, but I don't see how that'll help anyway cause Windowsme goes back a few years and the card is newer than that.. i think.. As it stands the Hard drive is running via msdos, i think..Maybe I don't need an extra driver at all? Also, when I installed the second hard drive, I copied everything from the other, so that I could enable the newer one to be my primary. Changed the ribbon, etc.. Then I deleted everything that was on the smaller old hard drive. and reformatted it. was that was I was supposed to do? or was something supposed to stay on that one, when I installed the new hard drive using the software that came with it? One more question.. After I get all of this resolved.. how can I copy all of windows, it's updates that I download and install automatically.. drivers.. everything to a cd, so that if I have to reset, reinstall everything again, I can just use that one, rather than having to go through hunting it all down again? Thanks, lynda |
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promise ultra 133 TX2 (tm) IDE controller
Why are you using the Promise card? Motherboards usually come with two IDE
connections that can support four IDE devices. "lynda" wrote in message ... I have installed a control card for the second hard drive and it tells me in the control panel, (yellow mark)!win9x- me promise ultra 133 TX2 (tm) IDE controller. It says that windows has chosen not to use this driver. So now what do I do? I contacted the Promise company and they gave me another driver to use. It still halts my system if it uses it. My windowsME system still halts with the message.. "Either memory is insufficient to run KRNL386.exe or the value of the window mem size system.ini file is too Large. You need to run setup program again. System halted. " it is the same message as the first file. I have 512 memory. I have run setup again, but I don't see how that'll help anyway cause Windowsme goes back a few years and the card is newer than that.. i think.. As it stands the Hard drive is running via msdos, i think..Maybe I don't need an extra driver at all? Also, when I installed the second hard drive, I copied everything from the other, so that I could enable the newer one to be my primary. Changed the ribbon, etc.. Then I deleted everything that was on the smaller old hard drive. and reformatted it. was that was I was supposed to do? or was something supposed to stay on that one, when I installed the new hard drive using the software that came with it? One more question.. After I get all of this resolved.. how can I copy all of windows, it's updates that I download and install automatically.. drivers.. everything to a cd, so that if I have to reset, reinstall everything again, I can just use that one, rather than having to go through hunting it all down again? Thanks, lynda |
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promise ultra 133 TX2 (tm) IDE controller
Lynda
There should be no problems with the Promise card (I use a Promise 66 card myself on my ME box) but.... Try this first Reboot to Safe Mode Open Device Manager Remove ALL entries for the Promise card Reboot to Normal Mode Windows should reinstall the required drivers and ask for another reboot - see if that helps. your procedure WRT the old and new drives is correct - but personally, I'd have left the data on the old one for a while until the new one was proven OK. For your error message, I'm a little worried, as it seems to relate to a very old memory manager - and memory managers and ME don't mix!! If you have any memory managers/optimisers installed - then uninstall them! Do you use any registry cleaners? (don't! is my general recommendation) - if so, which? If you 'd like to email me a copy of your c:\windows\system.ini file, then I'll take a look at it, and see what I can see. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "lynda" wrote in message ... I have installed a control card for the second hard drive and it tells me in the control panel, (yellow mark)!win9x- me promise ultra 133 TX2 (tm) IDE controller. It says that windows has chosen not to use this driver. So now what do I do? I contacted the Promise company and they gave me another driver to use. It still halts my system if it uses it. My windowsME system still halts with the message.. "Either memory is insufficient to run KRNL386.exe or the value of the window mem size system.ini file is too Large. You need to run setup program again. System halted. " it is the same message as the first file. I have 512 memory. I have run setup again, but I don't see how that'll help anyway cause Windowsme goes back a few years and the card is newer than that.. i think.. As it stands the Hard drive is running via msdos, i think..Maybe I don't need an extra driver at all? Also, when I installed the second hard drive, I copied everything from the other, so that I could enable the newer one to be my primary. Changed the ribbon, etc.. Then I deleted everything that was on the smaller old hard drive. and reformatted it. was that was I was supposed to do? or was something supposed to stay on that one, when I installed the new hard drive using the software that came with it? One more question.. After I get all of this resolved.. how can I copy all of windows, it's updates that I download and install automatically.. drivers.. everything to a cd, so that if I have to reset, reinstall everything again, I can just use that one, rather than having to go through hunting it all down again? Thanks, lynda |
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