AboutMike Expertise Areas of expertise: PC Hardware, Peripherals, Barcode Scanners, Printers, and Applications, Basic Networking, Microsoft Applications. I am good at researching issues and have a lot of contacts. So if I can't directly answer a question I can likely find the answer.
Areas I won't be much help in: Apple Computers, Linux, older Networking topologies like Token Ring.
Experience I'm currently an IT Support Technician for a contract circuit
board manufacturer in Oregon, USA. I've been working on PCs from a hobby standpoint for better than 25 years. I've been doing it professionally for 3 years.
Expert: Mike Date: 6/29/2008 Subject: Harware Interrupts conti.
Question So what you were saying in the past answer is that I need to try alot of different things to get this to stop. ok thats fine i got time to do this, but where should i start? Should i start with the IDE channels, and also how would i uninstall the drivers for them? Would i have to wipe my computer?
Answer Yeah I'd start with the IDE Channels. To uninstall any of the system components that I mentioned go to Device Manager by right-clicking My Computer and selecting Manage.
Then in Device Manager find the component, like the Primary IDE Channel, and right-click it and select Uninstall. Then reboot. When you reboot your computer it will re-install the device.
If uninstalling and reinstalling the IDE channel doesn't fix it then look in the list to see if there is a High Definition Audio bus and do it next. It should be under Sound, video and game controllers.
Some devices, such as Network card, Audio Controller, and Video Controller won't reinstall themselves if you uninstall them. For those you'll have to go to the manufacturers website to get the drivers so before you get started I'd find the manufacturers website and the drivers section, just so you know where it is.
