Hello again,
Youka said:
I do get the "Properties" option when I right click on either driver.
Each driver is listed as Startup Type = Boot.
On my machine:
PartMgr: As yours
Intelide: No choise / option as this driver is NOT a part of the category of
“Non-Plug and Play Drivers", but reside in the IDE ATA/ATAPI-Controllers. (!)
The status of PartMgr = Started, while IntelIde = Stopped. Trying to
manually start IntelIde doesn't work, as the following message is displayed:
"The servies cannot be started either because it is disabled or because it
has no enabled devices associated with it"
On my machine:
The status of PartMgr = Started
The status of the Intelide is not optional on the menues for the driver as
installed on my PC.
I also checked the Properties Pages for each driver (as you suggested),
which provided the following info:
PARTMGR
Desc: Partition Manager
Vers: 5.1.2600.0
On my machine: Vers: 5.1.2600.0 (XPClient.010817-1148)
Manu: Microsoft
INTELIDE
Desc: Intel PC IDE Driver
Vers: 5.1.2600.2180
On my machine: 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158). This indicates
clearly that an update of this driver has taken place somewhere along with
the SP2 installation, or its updates.
Manu: Microsoft
Given this info, I'm even more hesitant to Uninstall these drivers, and then
try to Reinstall the offending device from a list of hardware devices
provided by the "Add New Hardware Wizard" (as instructed by the
Troubleshooter)
Specifically, it's not clear to me which device each driver controls. And
without this info, how do I know which device to choose from the "Add New
Hardware Wizard" list to reinstall ???
As pointed to in my previous post: They are system drivers and used for
drive (hard disk) management. And yes; they may certainly cause problems when
incorrectly installed or working. While on this subject did I carry out a
driver update regarding the Intelide.sys driver, offered as an option on a
menu in the IDE ATA/ATAPI-Controllers, outcome was installation of two more
drivers, and the Intelide version being as before!
I'm tempted to just ignore the problem -- rather than randomly
uninstall/reinstall drivers and make things worse -- but I'm afraid that
ignoring the problem will only come back to bite me down the road.
As stated in the Microsoft article KB133240: "Note that a device that is in a
problem state can be functioning.", MAY your PC be happily working with the
yellow exclamation marks, in case you are offered no options of updating the
two drivers. Most likely is the cause for the exclamation marks a requirement
for (non-critical?) updates, or the fact that you might have replaced the
(hard) drive on your PC (?).
Regards,
Ka2H