Dissapearing hardware???
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Name: Bima
Date: August 2, 2000 at 12:50:09 Pacific
Subject: Dissapearing hardware???
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Comment: I've been using Win2K professional for a couple of months now, and I have been extremly happy with its performance, except there is a problem that is starting to annoy me. Some of my hardware disapears and then either I have to reinstall it or it reinstalls itself. For example my network card (RPTI ISA ETHERNET ADAPTER) sometimes disapears from the device manager and the LAN connection disapears from 'My Network Places' properties. But the network card and its driver are not uninstalled they are just hidden. Anyway I have to uninstall the device and then reinstall it for it to work. Also my Sidewinder gamepad sometimes uninstalls itself and I have to reinstall the gamepad. Even more annoying is that I was playing a game (using my pad) and it suddenly quit into windows and the 'Found new hardware' box came up is my pad had only just been detected even though i was using it. I don't know what is causing these devices to disapear, but could someone please give me any advice they can. Thank you very much in advance Ben Davies (Spec: Jetway J-542B Mainboard, AMD K63 450, DIAMOND S70 PCI Soundcard, PCI 3D Blaster Banshee, PCI Lucent 56K Winmodem, RPTI ISA ETHERNET ADAPTER, Win2000 professional Build 2195) p.s please feel free to email suggestions aswell.
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Name: Undo
Date: August 3, 2000 at 09:25:03 Pacific
Subject: Dissapearing hardware???
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Reply: (edit)I dont know if this will help....but it sounds like your computer is haunted. Take it to a priest....
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Name: Bill
Date: August 3, 2000 at 13:19:23 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)If this is happening after you restart your computer then your pnp bios is changing settings for your hardware and when windows loads, it is losing some hardware and finding new stuff.
Best solution i can suggest is when you power down, do a soft shudown ie don't turn your computer off from the back.
Change your bios so that it has pnp os installed set to yes.
Lastly pay special attention when you are booting. Write down the settings IRQs etc that each device is using, You can push that pause/break button on your keyboard to stop the screen at where you are. When you restart the computer notice if any device is missing or showing different irq. If it is then all your computer is telling windows is that there is new hardware installed.
Tweaking your bios should help it.
regards
Bill
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Name: z
Date: August 4, 2000 at 00:23:09 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Bill is right. Keep in mind tho that some pci cards can share IRQ's and some can't Most of the time this happens on my system, it was a conflict between network and video. once I had it all straightened out, I installed a 3com nic. every other boot, i have to "reset configuration data" in bios to get the card to reinit. I beleive it to be a driver problem.
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