Jonathon, Don't have much experience myself, but from your post appears it is an IDE device it can't identify, and therefore doesn't know what to do with. Perhaps needs a driver. Usually IDE device is hard drive, CD rom or some other storage device. Suggest comparing list with known hardware in machine looking for what is unaccounted for. HTH, Bob Jonathon Jongsma wrote: > Thanks for the lspci suggestion. I hadn't known about that before. > Unfortunately, as i said, i'm not much of a hardware guy, so I can't > necessarily interpret this stuff. Here's what it gives me for 00:1f.1 > (the one that was giving me the error): > > 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DB ICH4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 8a > [Master SecP PriPI) > Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 013d > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16 > I/O ports at <unassigned> [size=8] > I/O ports at <unassigned> [size=4] > I/O ports at <unassigned> [size=8] > I/O ports at <unassigned> [size=4] > I/O ports at f000 [size=16] > Memory at 10000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] > > > It seems something's wrong with the I/O ports? but i don't know what or > how to fix it. Also, device 00:1d.0 (USB Controller) and device 01:04.0 > (Modem) are listed at IRQ 16. I don't see anything suspicious under the > VGA controller device listing. So again, I'm hoping somebody can give > me some advice as to what this all means. Thanks, > Jonathon