Found new hardware pop up problem

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hi, keep having this found new hardware pop up for PCI device and it never finds anything, I tried my mobo cd as well, nothing. Could there be something wrong with the mobo? After it finishes searching, it preceeds to pop up, found new hardware, so I just cancel and it and it goes away until next reboot.

what could be the problem?

Tex

Next time it happens....

Go to the device manager.. Make sure you have the option to show hidden devices enabled.... (that is not the default) And see whats not working....

Cowboy

aznherb36

it shows PCI device, and just that. its under system devices.

Tex

And you have drivers that all work for everything that you think exists??? I mean sound and network etc....

Crap my computer is at a friends house down the street and I need to get down there I guess as I have a tool that tells you the name of devices like that...

If you throw the MB cd in there when it is messing around does it install?

What PCI devices other then whats installed in that MB do you have for starters?

Cowboy

aznherb36

I remember it has something to do with the SB Audigy 2 I have. When I was isntalling, i had problems with Onboard sound being used while I had auidgy 2 in there. So just now I went ahead and took out the card, and nothing. should I still install the onboard drivers? I dont have those.

There is nothing that installs when I pop in the mobo CD.

the only PCI device is the soundcard

when I have the soundcard in there it shows NA in the picture, but when I take it out it disappears. I will reinstall the SB stuff. and see what happens

EDIT


uninstalled all of SB stuff and took out the card. When i boot I still get the PCI device problem.

Thrax

Download a utility called UNKNOWNDEVICES. Just extract the program from its download zipfile and do not extract the pcidevs.zip file it comes with. Just leave that zip and the exe in a folder. Run unknowndevices and it should tell you what it is and who makes it.

kryyst

There is a good chance that it's a video game port on the sound card that is causing the headache. But run the unknowndevice tool to see what it says.

aznherb36

I reformatted because I there was just to much problems I was having, but seems like Im still having this problem, EXCEPT the Found New Hardware does not show up at all, only in the device manager thats says

[+]Other Devices
?PCI Device.

I did not installl the audio stuff on the CD since I am using SB Audigy2. Could it be an issue with the board?

GrayFox

Install your chipset drivers and the application accelerator drivers.

You can download them from here

aznherb36

Thanks!

I went on the site and was not sure which one to get, and to make sure I will post it. I found this app. acce. drive: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=663&OSFullName=Windows*+XP+Professional&lang=eng&strOSs=44&submit=Go%21

but cannot find the intel p35 chipset? I checked under Desktop chipsets but there was no fimilar one I see, or I dont know the right chipset I need. The gigabyte p35-ds3r is the board I have. Could you tell me what to search or direct me to i? Thanks alot

Thrax

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=816&OSFullName=Windows*+XP+Professional&lang=eng&strOSs=44&submit=Go%21

aznherb36

I extracted the file into the folder and I ran the Setup.exe I clicked next, accepted the agreement and stuff, it finished VERY quickly, never told me to reboot or anything, it just said the installation was complete. I also tried from Update driver under device manager and it did not work.

I rebooted and checked the device manager and it still shows PCI Device unknown.

GrayFox

It might be an acpi driver check the manufactures site for drivers.

aznherb36

the gigabyte site?
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/Driver_Model.aspx?ProductID=2626

i dont see anything new that I dont have