Bill
I suspect I cannot take you further with your FSX problem unless the two
drivers are partof that problem.
The two drivers not loading is a strange one. I cannot recall seeing it
being reported that drivers have not loaded, except when systems are
booted to safe mode. The implication is that something is requesting the
drivers but either they are not present on your system or there is
something wrong with the drivers. You can use Autoruns to see if there
are start up items for pciide.sys and viaide.sys.
To identify what loads when you boot use Autoruns (freeware from
Microsoft).
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys.../Autoruns.mspx
With Autoruns you can uncheck an item, which disables it from
starting,or you can right click an item and then delete it. If you
uncheck youcan recheck to re-enable the item. It is a much safer
approach than editing the Registry and better than using msconfig..
Another useful feature of the programme is that you can right click an
item and select Search Online to get information about the item
selected.
See if the items are there and not disabled.
The second operation is to check whether the files are present the
folder c:\windows\system32\drivers.pciide.sys is a Microsoft file and is
present on most systems including my own. viaide.sys is a third party
driver from Via Technologies.
--
Hope this helps.
Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Bill Bishop wrote:
> Gerry wrote:
>> Bill
>>
>> I suspect you are not alone. Google has a lot of posts.
>>
>> Last 12 months
>> http://snurl.com/j3tgs [www_google_co_uk]
>>
>> This one may be of interest.
>> http://forums.simflight.com/viewtopi...76229&p=467202
>>
>> Are any devices malfunctioning? Select Start, All Programs,
>> Accessories, System Tools, System Information. Open Components under
>> System Summary and click on Problem Devices. Is anything listed
>> there? Are there any yellow question marks in Device Manager? Right
>> click on
>> the My Computer icon on your Desktop and select Properties,
>> Hardware,Device Manager. If yes what is the Device Error code?
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Gerry
>> ~~~~
>> FCA
>> Stourport, England
>> Enquire, plan and execute
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>>
>> Bill Bishop wrote:
>>> Thank you for your response Gerry. Here is the additional info you
>>> requested.
>>>
>>> Event Type: Error
>>> Event Source: Service Control Manager
>>> Event Category: None
>>> Event ID: 7026
>>> Date: 30/05/2009
>>> Time: 9:40:39 AM
>>> User: N/A
>>> Computer: PROMPT
>>> Description:
>>> The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
>>> PCIIde
>>> ViaIde
>>>
>>> For more information, see Help and Support Center at
>>> http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
>>>
>>> =======================
>>>
>>> Computer:
>>> Pentium 4 CPU 3.06 GHz
>>> 3.06 GHz 1.0 GB of RAM
>>>
>>> ========================
>>> Commite Charge
>>> Total: 600504
>>> Limit: 4089012
>>> Peak: 844344
>>> =======================
>>>
>>> Gerry, While I am not an expert I am by no means a novice. This one
>>> really has me stumped. None of my other programs seems to be
>>> effected. Other games (eg. TW Golg 2008 play with no problems). I
>>> have tried adjusting settings in FSX to the minimum with no joy.
>>> (settings don't seem to effect the freeze problem).
>>>
>>> I certainly appreciate your response and look forward to any
>>> suggestions you may have
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bill Bishop
>>
> Thanks again Gerry. I've scanned the posts you provided but did not
> come up with anything helpful (other than to realize others have a
> similar issue). There are several excellent posts on SimForums by
> NickN which I followed when I reinstalled (for the third time) my FSX
> with Acceleration. FYI here are the URL's:
>
> http://www.simforums.com/forums/foru....asp?TID=29041
>
> http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/ya...num=1208959973
>
> I have NO conflicting or problem devices shown in SysInfo, nor no
> problems shown in my Hardware Device Manager.
>
> I have searched Microsofts Knowledge Base (what a joke that is) for a
> reference to this problem to no avail.
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