Are these llines repeating? This line: Alias Trident 9685/9680/9682/9385/9382/9385-1 PCI represents your video card. The other 2 involve your IDE hard disk controller. See what everyone else has to say before you delete this!
Newbie can't fiqure out what this is?
Hi Gang:
I need some help in understanding my computer and some of the reasons why it is running slow. Some of the reasons has been answered in previous posts, but here is something I do not understand and need some help.
When I right click on My Computer, then click on the device manager, then click on the lower left corner "properties" then click on the input/output (I/O). I get information regarding my devices, but there is about 250-300 lines with the following:
Alias of Primary IDE controller (dual fifo)
Alias of SiS 5513 Dual Pci IDE controller
Alias Trident 9685/9680/9682/9385/9382/9385-1 PCI
What are these lines? Are they important? Should they be removed to improve my computer processing speed?
I have the following configuration:
Computer is original HP configuration except network card for AT&T cable modem, 2 gig slave hard drive, scanner and palm pilot
HP Pavilion 4440
AMD 333mhz
256 Mb Ram
Win 98 Version 2
AT&T cable modem
4.3 gig hard drive
McAfee virus scan updated weekly, if possible.
Only original HP softwares and my company softwares placed by company IT techs.
Thanks for your help.
Steven.
I need some help in understanding my computer and some of the reasons why it is running slow. Some of the reasons has been answered in previous posts, but here is something I do not understand and need some help.
When I right click on My Computer, then click on the device manager, then click on the lower left corner "properties" then click on the input/output (I/O). I get information regarding my devices, but there is about 250-300 lines with the following:
Alias of Primary IDE controller (dual fifo)
Alias of SiS 5513 Dual Pci IDE controller
Alias Trident 9685/9680/9682/9385/9382/9385-1 PCI
What are these lines? Are they important? Should they be removed to improve my computer processing speed?I have the following configuration:
Computer is original HP configuration except network card for AT&T cable modem, 2 gig slave hard drive, scanner and palm pilot
HP Pavilion 4440
AMD 333mhz
256 Mb Ram
Win 98 Version 2
AT&T cable modem
4.3 gig hard drive
McAfee virus scan updated weekly, if possible.
Only original HP softwares and my company softwares placed by company IT techs.
Thanks for your help.
Steven.
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Lines are repeating
Hi Midnight Tech and anyone else that can help me:
The lines are repeating,
Alias of Primary IDE controller (dual fifo) --repeated 200-250 times
Alias of SiS 5513 dual PCI IDE controller --repeated 200-250 times
Alias of TRIDENT 9685/9680/9682/9385/9382/9385-1 PCI --repeated 100-150 times
Perhaps these are the things that is taking up all of my system resources?
What problems will these Alias cause?
Thanks for your help.
Steven
Hi Midnight Tech and anyone else that can help me:
The lines are repeating,
Alias of Primary IDE controller (dual fifo) --repeated 200-250 times
Alias of SiS 5513 dual PCI IDE controller --repeated 200-250 times
Alias of TRIDENT 9685/9680/9682/9385/9382/9385-1 PCI --repeated 100-150 times
Perhaps these are the things that is taking up all of my system resources?
What problems will these Alias cause?
Thanks for your help.
Steven
You can delete the exact same line if its repeating. Make sure to delete only lines that repeat EXACTLY. This really probably wont speed up your system that much in the long run. A more pressing matter would be to determine why they got the way they did in the first place. Id run a Virus scan with recent Defs. (My standard response to sudden-abnormal computer problems) But I figure go with what works the most.
If your not having any problems you should just leave them there. No reason to fix something that isn't broken.
I can think of a few reasons why this could have happened besides viruses, mostly relating to Windows OS hick-ups, Windows thinking the hardware hasn't been installed yet on startup etc..
But again, if it still works leave 'um, you wont notice any speed increase by deleting them.
The tech is in
Hi The tech is in:
Thank you for your response, maybe it was a virus, I got attacked by the Sircam virus about 8 months ago, but I was able to eliminate it within 1 hour, but it may have deleted or corrupted a window file or something thus windows is attempting to reload the file, so all of the repeated lines.
Everything seems to be running fine, and good. But scandisk does find numerous errors and auto fixes them each week.
Any additional thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Thinking of buying a new computer soon, this AMD 333mhz is getting kind of old.
Steven.
Hi The tech is in:
Thank you for your response, maybe it was a virus, I got attacked by the Sircam virus about 8 months ago, but I was able to eliminate it within 1 hour, but it may have deleted or corrupted a window file or something thus windows is attempting to reload the file, so all of the repeated lines.
Everything seems to be running fine, and good. But scandisk does find numerous errors and auto fixes them each week.
Any additional thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Thinking of buying a new computer soon, this AMD 333mhz is getting kind of old.
Steven.
Jamman
Jamman:
Thanks for your response. When I run scandisk, and it finds errors it does not indicate what type of error, correct? Or does it?
If it does, where do I look for the type of error?
It gives me the following information:
"Scandisk has found errors on your hard drive, and has fixed them automatically" or something to that effect.
Thanks again,
Steven.
Jamman:
Thanks for your response. When I run scandisk, and it finds errors it does not indicate what type of error, correct? Or does it?
If it does, where do I look for the type of error?
It gives me the following information:
"Scandisk has found errors on your hard drive, and has fixed them automatically" or something to that effect.
Thanks again,
Steven.
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