re: re: Solution to 'What do I do with ''unknown'' devices in Device Manager?'
Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 10:11 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by zeeshan
(1 messages posted)
if that doesn't work in that case what u could do is that remove the device and install
the drivers if u have cd for that without restarting the computer but make sure u
have the cd or the drivers with you.
On Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 8:36 am, Steve wrote:
>Here is a solution to What
>do I do with "unknown" devices in Device Manager?:
>Quite often, Windows (95, 98, others?) fails to determine what devices are the first
>time around, but can later succeed. To make Windows try again, "delete" all
>of the unknown devices from your system, and reboot.
>
>This is necessary because Windows will not try to identify a device that is already
>flagged as "unknown".
Windows fails to detect some devices upon initial installation
>of the OS, possibly because the support files for the device aren't loaded yet.
Also,
>devices such as sound card sub-devices or USB devices may not be properly identified
>if the devices which they depend on (such as the base sound card drvier or the USB
>root hub) are not yet installed. So always try deleting the devices and rebooting;
>sooner or later you will get all of the device drivers installed in the right order.
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