Problems with the IDE controller
I have a Macbook from 2008, I bought it in November 2008 so it is quite an old model I guess.
I've never had a problem with it before and I have both Leopard and a Windows partition. The thing is that the other day I ran an antivirus at my Windows XP partition and now it doesn't detect the IDE controller. At the device manager I get a yellow exclamation mark and when I try to install it says that it doesn't exist. The thing is that I know that I had two devices for that but now there's only one and with the exclamation mark.
Since that happened, the webcam doesn't work properly and the USB ports don't work properly as well, I need to keep restarting the computer to make them work. I don't know what to do since I don't have the Windows XP CD anymore and it's been like years without a problem til now and I'm so so worried since I have to switch OS from time to time because of my job.
Can you please help me? If you need more info I will provide but please help...
Yes it shows up in the bios and in the device manager in xp pro.
No I didnt check for a bent pin on the board but I will and let you know.
No it just started one day taking along time to access disk then i started getting bad block messages,
then I changed the drive and still the same thing ,the changed the drive again and again and the cables two times
and still the same thing.I dont know why I didnt think of checking the board for a bent pin,but I thank you
for the idea.
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