New ATA channel with an exclamation point appear in the device manager at each start (when no new device has been installed)
Good morning,
My desktop, (Win7 64, AMD cpu/ Gigabyte mother board) , started to generate strange problems such as my laser usb printer not reachable even after disinstal/reinstall.
I took a look in the device manager, and found 2 ATA channel with an exclamation point, "drivers not found'. I also found a USB universal controller with the same exclamation point and the same error.
I changed nothing in terms of Bios since the machine was built (AHCI, Raid not active). The main drive is a SSD on primary SATA port, classic drive on the second port.
I deleted the 3 items, the printer started to work again. They reappeared after the next reboot.
Weird thing: it looks like the problems appeared after connecting/disconnecting a Nikon camera to one of the usb port (identified as a mass storage device).
I ran multiple scans (root) in case a virus would have generated the problem, negative.
Last point (can't tell if it's related or not), my browsers started crashing randomly.
Thank you
Hi,
I'd ask your question in the Windows forums here:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows
Or perhaps over in the Win7 IT Pro forum here, since you seem fairly comfortable:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/home?category=w7itpro&filter=alltypes&sort=lastpostdesc
This forum is meant for reporting issues with the forums themselves, not product support.
Good luck.
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