Help with unknown device

Byron172Byron172 Adelaide, South Australia Member
edited February 2006 in Science & Tech
Recently I uninstalled something from my computer, which i probably should have just disabled. I can't even remember its exact name but it was something along the lines of "TV adapter". I uninstalled it because I was constantly be informed at start up that drivers were not installed, and I had no use for it any way so I stupidly uninstalled. Now I get the "new hardware wizard" whenever I start up, which is a pain in the ass. Windows cannot find the driver or even tell me what the device is, it just registers as "Unknown Device". Has anyone got any suggestions. Even if its just a quick fix to get rid of the prompt/message at start up.

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  • DanGDanG I AM CANADIAN Icrontian
    edited February 2006
    What kind of hardware do you have? Motherboard, video and sound cards?
  • Byron172Byron172 Adelaide, South Australia Member
    edited February 2006
    I've attached some screen shots with the info requested. Let me know if you need other info........thanks for looking at this for me.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2006
    Install a program called ASTRA32 and it'll tell you.
  • Byron172Byron172 Adelaide, South Australia Member
    edited February 2006
    That's where I got the screen shots from, am I missing some info?
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited February 2006
    I had a WinTV card which did that very thing; every reboot was like the movie Groundhog Day. There is a driver cleanup tool available which ought to fix you up if that is the brand of your card. (Attached)

    If that doesn't help, next time you're in Device Manager click on View>>Show Hidden Devices and see what else shows up.
  • Byron172Byron172 Adelaide, South Australia Member
    edited February 2006
    Thanks for the advice Prof. I went to device manager and opened hidden devices and I've got an exclamation mark over "Microsoft HID class driver". I haven't run the clean up tool yet, but does this info mean anything that you're aware of?
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited February 2006
    HID = Human Interface Device. This could be a mouse, keyboard, joystick, etc. If you can actually grab it with your hands it's a HID. You can get errors like this if you have a mouse or keyboard with extra buttons and haven't installed the drivers for them. Windows knows that something else is there, it just can't figure out what it is.

    Regarding the cleanup tool, you only need to run it if you had a WinTV card. :)
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