Weird IDE controller

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  1. oao

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    I run xp64 on a Gateway 6836 Intel Duo laptop.

    All of a sudden and without any obvious reason a weird thing appeared in Device Manager under SCSI and Raid Controllers: an IDE controller whose name is a randomly assigned set of 8 letters which changes at every boot. It has a yellow exclamation mark thru it and if I uninstall it it is detected again at reboot with a differen name.

    Going into Properties:
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    General tab:

    Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)
    Click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter for this device.

    Driver tab: There is no driver

    Details tab:

    Device instance ID: ACP\PNPA000\4&5D18F2DF&0
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    There is no such animal on my system. Anybody knows what the heck this is?

    Thanks.
     
  2. Sniper

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    have you installed some kind of virtual cd drive?
     
  3. oao

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    Yup. I figured that out. Daemon Tools.

    The people responsible for such software should be shot on sight.
     
  4. Sniper

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    good stuff! glad you got it figured out.
     
  5. oao

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    I had to mess more than a day with it to get rid of it.
     

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