re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup'
Sunday, August 26, 2001 at 12:27 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kevin
(18 messages posted)
If you are getting unknown device at startup it means that you have not removed the
sound card from the box. It also means that windows is searching for the right driver
for it. Again you have to physically remove the card and have the correct drivers
available. If you have removed the card and the message is still coming up it means
one of two things:
1. you will have to remove the entry from the registry
or
2. it is not the problem and another device is causing this error.
You can, if you want, begin by removeing ALL devices from your system and readding
them one by one to see which is causing the error.
or
remove all devices, re-install windows clean (reformat) and, once again, see which
one is causing the error.
hope this helps
On Sunday, August 26, 2001 at 9:09 am, Tony Carr wrote:
>Thanks Kevin
>But unsuccessful deleted sound card but could not find message still there at boot
>up, plus " new hardware found" ( unknown media device ) when tried to install this
>windows could not find drivers it ended up in unknown devices with bomb alongside
>it but when checked for conflicts windows reported no conflicts !!
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>On Sunday, August 26, 2001 at 6:55 am, Kevin wrote:
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>>On Sunday, August 26, 2001 at 5:55 am, Tony Carr wrote:
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>>>during bootup I see the message "windows cannot find the crystal chip" I have
no
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>>>sound I have tried uninstalling sound card etc ( crystal being the manufacturer
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>>>the sound card ) Soundblaster pro
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>>>If you want windows to stop playing the message, remove the sound card from the
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>>system and reboot. this will solve the problem.
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>>When you are ready to re-install ensure that you are selecting the correct driver,
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>>either included with your hardware, or the latest downloaded from the internet.
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>>When windows asks for the driver tell it the location you have placed the drivers
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>>Should solve the problem. If not there could be a conflict with other devices.
Check
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>>for bombs in the device manager to see. remove the conflicting device and try again.
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