yellow question marks in device manager

sperksperk
edited July 2007 in Hardware
I had to reinstall XP and everything seems good except for some yellow question marks in device manager for items lacking drivers. Problem is I don't know what the devices are.
Is there any way to find out? The messages are these:
Other devices
Manufacturer unknown

multi media controller PCI Slot 8 (PCI bus 1, device 8, function 1)
multi media video controller PCI Slot 8 (PCI bus 1, device 8, function 0)
multi media video controller PCI Slot 7 (PCI bus 2, device 8, function 0)
multi media video controller PCI Slot 7 (PCI bus 2, device 9, function 0)

thanks

system:
AMD Athlon™ 64 3500+ Processor with HyperTransport Technology
Nitrogon SST-NT01 v2.0 Fanless Heatpipe CPU Cooler
Seasonic S12 Series ATX12V 2.0 430Watt
1GB Dual Channel DDR PC-3200 at 400MHz 2x512MB
motherboard GIGABYTE GA-K8N Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra
80GB Serial ATA 7,200 RPM 8MB
250GB Serial ATA 7,200 RPM 8MB
GIGABYTE Geforce 6600 256MB DDR PCI-Express x16
tv tuner: Hauppauge Dual Tuner PVR-500MCE
HDTV Card: FusionHDTV 5 Lite Single ATSC over-the-air high definition TV tuner

Comments

  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited July 2007
    the first one sounds like a driver for the video controller port on the back of a sound card (ie plug a video game controller into it).

    The other two look like they are related to the sound functions and possible video input/output functions of another card. Maybe a TV in card or another video card.

    Go into your display properties and see if it's detecting your video card correctly. If it has it's brand name ATI, NVIDIA, GEFORCE, MATRIX, Intel etc.... then it probably did. If it say something like generic VGA then it's not detect your video card correctly.


    As for finding out exactly what they are if you have a sound card and a video card you can open up your computer and look to see what they are if you don't know. If they are built into the motherboard then the manual for your computer should tell you what they are or if it's a name brand computer (dell, hp, gateway etc...) you can go to their sites and look it up.
  • adarryladarryl No Man Stands So Tall As When He Stoops To Help a Child. Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    Sorry I can't give you any more info about identifying the "unknown devices," but situations like this usually happen after a hard drive format and OS install when the motherboard drivers aren't also reinstalled. After you reinstalled windows, did you then run the motherboard driver CD?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    Download a program called UNKNOWNDEVICES and it'll tell you what the devices are. Let us know here.
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