Found New hardware Wizard keep poping up

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dave_au

Hello:

The "Found New hardware Wizard" keeps popping up!!! It is looking for some
"PCI Device" and can't never find it. Tried tips offered by [2. It does not
find the drives] in an old message but no help.

the problem is I don't know what it is looking for.

Any help would be greatly appreciated
 
dave_au said:
Hello:

The "Found New hardware Wizard" keeps popping up!!! It is looking for some
"PCI Device" and can't never find it. Tried tips offered by [2. It does not
find the drives] in an old message but no help.

the problem is I don't know what it is looking for.

Any help would be greatly appreciated
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Sometimes if you bring up device manager you can see question mark's on
items. At least it might give you a category like modem / nic etc.
 
Thanks. As I stated before, it is totally new installation.

Also, When I go through the steps, it keep looking for some sort of "PCI
Device", but under the "Device Manger", I can't see anything marked with
yellow "?"...

Best

PaulM said:
This may help:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;298370

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dave_au said:
Hello:

The "Found New hardware Wizard" keeps popping up!!! It is looking for some
"PCI Device" and can't never find it. Tried tips offered by [2. It does
not
find the drives] in an old message but no help.

the problem is I don't know what it is looking for.

Any help would be greatly appreciated
Click to expand...
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dave_au said:
Thanks. As I stated before, it is totally new installation.

Also, When I go through the steps, it keep looking for some sort of "PCI
Device", but under the "Device Manger", I can't see anything marked with
yellow "?"...
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I've looked through this thread and I don't see where you've described your
computer. Is this an OEM machine (Dell, HP, Sony, etc.) or a generic-built
one? See below for general drivers information, but usually when you get
this message you either 1) have an unknown piece of hardware (could be
something easily overlooked like a built-in card reader) or a modem; or 2)
you have the wrong drivers installed for something.

Do a system inventory if this is a generic-built box and if it is an OEM, go
through the drivers available from the OEM's website again.

Never get drivers from Windows Update. Get them from:

1. The device mftr.'s website; OR
2. The motherboard mftr.'s website if hardware is onboard; OR
3. The OEM's website for your specific machine if you have an OEM computer
(HP, Dell, Sony, etc.).

Read the installation instructions on the website where you get the drivers.

To find out what hardware is in your computer:

1. Read any documentation you got when you bought the computer.
2. If the computer is OEM, go to the OEM's website for your specific model
machine and look at the specs (you'll be there to get the drivers anyway)
3. Download, install and run a free system inventory program like Belarc
Advisor or System Information for Windows.

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html - Belarc Advisor
http://www.gtopala.com/ - System Information for Windows

Malke
 
Malke said:
I've looked through this thread and I don't see where you've described
your
computer. Is this an OEM machine (Dell, HP, Sony, etc.) or a generic-built
one? See below for general drivers information, but usually when you get
this message you either 1) have an unknown piece of hardware (could be
something easily overlooked like a built-in card reader) or a modem; or 2)
you have the wrong drivers installed for something.

Do a system inventory if this is a generic-built box and if it is an OEM,
go
through the drivers available from the OEM's website again.

Never get drivers from Windows Update.
Click to expand...

Just out of curiosity (and assuming they are even available there), why is
that? Because the choices there are probably out of date, or are too
limited, or what? (guessing)
 
Thanks.

Yes, it is Lenovo/IBM thinkpad t60p. I installed all of drivers from the
vendor site.. Everything seems to be fine except this pop up.

Checked again and noticed there is a yellow question mark under "Device
Manager" ---> "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers":

PCI Device

No clue what this "PCI Device" is...
 
dave_au said:
Thanks.

Yes, it is Lenovo/IBM thinkpad t60p. I installed all of drivers from the
vendor site.. Everything seems to be fine except this pop up.

Checked again and noticed there is a yellow question mark under "Device
Manager" ---> "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers":

PCI Device

No clue what this "PCI Device" is...
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You sure? There are a lot of drivers. This is where you were?

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-62928

Did you download/install the Intel Matrix Storage Manager? If not, then try
it. If you did, then call Lenovo tech support. They, like IBM before them,
are really quite good.

Malke
 
Yes, I did install the "Intel Matrix Storage Manager". I had to install
manually since the "system update" utility won't install this driver.
 
dave_au said:
Yes, I did install the "Intel Matrix Storage Manager". I had to install
manually since the "system update" utility won't install this driver.
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Sorry that I don't have any further ideas for you. Contact Lenovo tech
support.

Malke
 
Malke said:
I've looked through this thread and I don't see where you've described
your
computer. Is this an OEM machine (Dell, HP, Sony, etc.) or a generic-built
one? See below for general drivers information, but usually when you get
this message you either 1) have an unknown piece of hardware (could be
something easily overlooked like a built-in card reader) or a modem; or 2)
you have the wrong drivers installed for something.

Do a system inventory if this is a generic-built box and if it is an OEM,
go
through the drivers available from the OEM's website again.

Never get drivers from Windows Update.
Click to expand...

Just out of curiosity (and assuming they are even available there), why is
that? Because the choices there are probably out of date, or are too
limited, or what? (guessing)
 
Bill said:
Just out of curiosity (and assuming they are even available there), why is
that? Because the choices there are probably out of date, or are too
limited, or what? (guessing)
Click to expand...

Never get drivers from Windows Update, because there have been so many
bricked machines as a result. Drivers downloaded from the manufacturer's
site, for whatever reason, have a better track record. If the manufacturer
finds a problem with the driver, they can withdraw it from their site
instantly. With MS, the driver could remain available for a long time,
with no one to correct it. A new driver would have to be released by the
manufacturer, let loose in the Microsoft labyrinth, and could takes
its sweet time kicking the bad driver out.

I've had a driver update pending in Windows Update for a couple years,
and I'm not even remotely curious what it is for :-) I won't touch that
with a barge pole.

Paul
 
Thanks for that info Paul. (I was wondering if Malke was ever gonna answer
it)
I *do* recall once downloading some Intel chipset update from the MS site
that messed up my old W98SE system some time ago (and that was a real
pain!), but outside of that, I haven't used their site for any updates,
except an occasional Microsoft security update (and I've also gotten pretty
leery of those, too).
 
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