Device in the system modular bay cannot be identified

Question

The modular hard drive bay in my i8100 crashed after working flawlessly for 15 months. Windows XP did a minidump the other day and upon rebooting I got a Dell error screen reading 'device in system modular bay cannot be identified'. I reset the bay but received the same message. The problem could be with the hard drive, modular bay, motherboard, or XP. XP boots fine with the modular bay removed. I tried inserting the bay after XP booted and Windows went crazy, with windows opening willy-nilly. Any ideas how to fix this?

Infinite_Trial · Answer

what is your device in your modular bay? have you tried putting your modular battery to the place where your modular device sits to check if it's a motherboard problem. if the computer does not go haywire with the battery in on that place, your device is shot.

zenweb · Answer

It's a hard drive modular bay. I did swap the battery and it works fine. However it uses a different motherboard pinout than the hard drive uses. Unfortunately I'm traveling and don't have the floppy module that uses the same pinout as the hard drive.

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Device in the system modular bay cannot be identified

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