Peteff
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| posted on 28/12/03 at 12:44 PM |
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Unknown device?
I'm building a computer from spare bits for the grandkids and have been scrounging drivers and stuff off the net. I put it together to see if it
would start upand the bios report said "No keyboard present. Press F1 or del to continue". Der!!!. It's working now but I have an
unknown device detecting at startup which it wants me to install drivers for, anybody got any unknown device drivers for a winnex 1 motherboard.
yours, Pete.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Staple balls
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| posted on 28/12/03 at 02:10 PM |
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unplug every PCI device other than the graphics card, take the mouse out too if it has one.
then add bits in one at a time, restarting until you get the error again, then aquire the drivers for whichever device causes it
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Peteff
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| posted on 28/12/03 at 02:27 PM |
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other devices.
It's an integrated mobo and has nothing else plugged in. I found if I let it register as Other Devices in the System it doesn't report it
any more so it can be ignored. They'll only want to play games on it anyway. Thanks.
yours, Pete
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pbura
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| posted on 28/12/03 at 02:50 PM |
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BIOS and drivers
You might try visiting the MB manufacturer's website and downloading BIOS upgrades, device drivers, and whatever they have. With fingers
crossed, this may do the trick for unrecognized devoices.
BoL,
Pete
Pete
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Peteff
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| posted on 28/12/03 at 06:50 PM |
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I got all the graphic and sound drivers from the intel and QDI websites. I've got a bios update but the floppy drive is redundant so I
can't do it yet. It's just to use up some bits lying around so I'm happy now it boots and runs. It's an intel celery 400 for
nowt so they will be o.k. for kids games on it, dinosaur hunter and the like.
cheers all, Pete.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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ChrisW
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| posted on 28/12/03 at 07:25 PM |
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Pete
You'll probably find that the integrated devices can be turned off in the BIOS. 'unknown device' sounds like a windows 95/98 thing
so my suggestion would be the USB ports?
Chris
My gaff my rules
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Peteff
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| posted on 29/12/03 at 12:36 AM |
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I think my best bet would be to disable the plug'n'pray so it doesn't detect anything. It boots up without a warning now and just
yellow flags the device in system. It's made a decent machine out of nothing now it's running. I can recommend AIDA 32 to find out what
you have in a machine if you're not sure of the bits.
yours, Pete.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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The Shootist
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| posted on 30/12/03 at 04:07 AM |
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Unknown device... Hmmm...
PCI bridge comes to mind.
Does it have a network interface on the MB? NICs are commonly not recognised by the OS.
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