Solution to 'What do I do with ''unknown'' devices in Device Manager?'
Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 8:36 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Steve
(1 messages posted)
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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