Hi,

(Please excuse the long message - there are a lot of details related to this problem)

I have an ECS mobo with a KM133 chipset, Windows 2000 Pro (SP-2)and have never been able to get Ultra DMA enabled. Baracuda 7200RPM, 20GB HD. In the Device Manager the Primary IDE Channel says: "This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12)". And the following message (don't even have an SCSI Device!):

Input/Output Range 01F0 - 01F7 used by:
SCSI/RAID Host Controller
Input/Output Range 03F6 - 03F6 used by:
SCSI/RAID Host Controller
Interrupt Request 14 used by:
SCSI/RAID Host Controller [Primary IDE using Interrupt 14 also]

Too many people have said that this is normal. Well, I have three other computers with the same version of Windows 2000 that don't have this problem. UDMA works and no SCSI listed (SCSI and RAID Controllers is listed in the Device Manager on this one only). One of the other
computers uses the exact same mobo and onboard video, audio.

I have tried using newer and older VIA IDE drivers (no help) and went back to the MS drivers (still the same). The SCSI and RAID Controllers has NO Disable or Uninstall listed as an option. My other Win2k partition has UDMA enabled, but very large folders take a lot longer to open.

Some people say that Easy CD Creator 4 must be uninstalled (as well as the EZ CD plug-in in Windows Media Player 7.1) with some of these problems (not sure how to do the thourough uninstall that they refered to).

Would really appreciate any help,

Thanks,




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Bil

Well first some devices will show up as "SCSI" devices, I wouldn't worry too much about that. (for exapmle ZIP drives sometimes show up as "SCSI" devices.) The error your getting is because a DMA channel or other resource can't be assigned due to the fact that there isn't one free.

From Microsoft for a code 12:

"Two devices have been assigned the same input/output (I/O) ports, the same interrupt, or the same Direct Memory Access channel (either by the BIOS, the operating system, or a combination of the two). This error message can also appear if the BIOS did not allocate enough resources to the device (for example, if a universal serial bus (USB) controller does not get an interrupt from the BIOS because of a corrupt Multiprocessor System (MPS) table).
You can use Device Manager to determine where the conflict is and disable the conflicting device.

On the General Properties tab of the device, click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooting wizard."

Since you also have another computer with the same MB. I would check the BIOS and see if it is setup like the other one. (resources like IRQ, etc,etc)


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