Re: Add / Remove Hardware - code 12 and code 31

From: Stan Weiss (srweiss_at_erols.com)
Date: 12/07/04 

Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 15:35:48 -0500

Thanks Jud, but the system will not let me uninstall the CD-RW drive.
Stan

Jud wrote:
>
> "Stan Weiss" <srweiss@erols.com> wrote in message
> news:41B4989D.21391694@erols.com...
> > I had problem and could not boot my system. I repaired the OS and it
> > still would not boot so I installed a second W2K on the hard drive. This
> > can up fine. Later with more work I got the origanal/repaired version to
> > boot and run. In the other version.load of W2K these devices are ok.
> > Although in Add/Remove hardware I get this error for the IDE channels.
> >
> > For the two IDE channels I get -->
> > This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use (Code 12)
> >
> > If you want to use this device, you will need to disable one of the
> > other devices on this system.
> >
> > I do not not have any use of the CD-RW drive.
> > For the CD-RW I get -->
> > This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the
> > drivers required for the device.
>
> Go into Device Manager and remove all related to IDE and IDE drives, reboot
> but go into your BIOS and check that
> the settting for "Plug and Play OS Installed " is set to "Yes" allow windows
> to come up and see how you go
>
> Jud