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I have a Gigabyte P35-DS3L (Version 2) MB with the F8a bios.
After doing a fresh install of XP Pro SP2C.. they device manager lists 3 Primary IDE Channels and 3 Secondary IDE channels.
Since the DS3L has only 1 IDE connection (master and slave), shouldn't I have only 1 Primary and 1 Secondary Channel listed instead of 3 instances of IDE drives?

The installed drives on this board are a 74 GB WD Raptor, a Samsung S203N (SATA) DVD Drive and a Samsung Floppy drive.

Can anyone advise me as to what might be causing this?






Message edited by DnDDagger on 07-27-2008 at 07:52:21 PM

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