re: No devices listed in the Device Manager
Friday, July 15, 2005 at 8:16 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jack Gulley
(5917 messages posted)
Sounds more like a system board BIOS CMOS Setup problem and not a Windows ME
problem. Or worse, a basic hardware failure on the system board. In addition any
of the disk drives or CD-Rom drives having a hard failure could be killing the the
IDE bus and all devices attached to it. When booting from a Windows ME startup diskette,
it should be able to see and access the disk drives and CD-Roms. If not, it is a
hardware or hardware configuration problem.
You need to boot the system board in to its BIOS CMOS Setup. Normally the Del
key right after power on. You may have to consult your system or system board manufacture
for the proper way to get into the system boards BIOS Setup. In the CMOS Setup, you
need to reset the BIOS plug and play configuration (DMI or ESCD data).
Go to the PnP/PCI Configurations section and Enable the Reset
Configuration Data or ESCD option. Save the setup and exit. BIOS will rebuild
the DMI Configuration table.
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