I've been lurking in this thread, I just joined so I can participate,
I have ONE system that is doing this. 8.1 enterprise fully updated. Mine started with the symptom that disk management would take forever (20-30 seconds) to load. Also other programs or functions such as TreeSize that are looking for all the storage devices would hang or respond slowly. The fix I read in this thread of turning off driver updates helped a lot, but it was still slow compared to other machines.
Then while rebooting, I saw the old PATA controller stating that it found no drives (because there are no PATA devices). So I rebooted again and turned off the PATA and floppy controllers. This makes sense since I had updated the bios prior to this issue. All the delays want away after that.
Turning windows driver updates back on slows it down a little. For now i'm leaving it off. When updates are on I still get the 131 error whenever devices are refreshed.
I hope this helps someone....
I have ONE system that is doing this. 8.1 enterprise fully updated. Mine started with the symptom that disk management would take forever (20-30 seconds) to load. Also other programs or functions such as TreeSize that are looking for all the storage devices would hang or respond slowly. The fix I read in this thread of turning off driver updates helped a lot, but it was still slow compared to other machines.
Then while rebooting, I saw the old PATA controller stating that it found no drives (because there are no PATA devices). So I rebooted again and turned off the PATA and floppy controllers. This makes sense since I had updated the bios prior to this issue. All the delays want away after that.
Turning windows driver updates back on slows it down a little. For now i'm leaving it off. When updates are on I still get the 131 error whenever devices are refreshed.
I hope this helps someone....