Common Symptoms and Solutions

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Checking for resource conflicts

In rare cases, your computer’s IDE controller may be having a resource conflict where another device is trying to use the IDE controller’s I/O base address or interrupt request channel (IRQ). To check for this type of conflict:

■In Windows 95, right-click on the My Computer icon, select Properties, select the Device Manager tab, and double-click on CD- ROM, if the list is not already expanded. A yellow exclamation mark over the controller’s icon confirms that the controller has the same or conflicting settings as another device installed on your system. Resolve this conflict by assigning a unique IRQ and I/O base address to the other device.

■In Windows NT, if this type of conflict is present, you will see an error message when you start up Windows NT. Follow the directions in the error message box.