re: Empty Device Manager How I fixed it (New Info)
Sunday, November 20, 2005 at 3:23 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by San
(2 messages posted)
In safe mode I could view the device manager which was a step forward, but i did
not have the dulicapate. Unfortunately still got the problem. I wonder why there
are so many different solutions for the problem that work for some and not others.
On Sunday, November 20, 2005 at 2:36 pm, Sepulchre wrote:
>I was Having the same problem everyone else was, Empty Device manager (among other
>related problems..Slow Folders, context menus etc.) I tried All of the fixes listed
>here and none of them worked for me. Then one time when I was in Safe Mode, I decided
>to check device manager there. My devices showed up, and one other interesting
thing.
> Under the system devices tree there were 2 instances of "PnP BIOS Extension", one
>of which had (!) indicating a conflict. I disabled and uninstalled the conflicted
>instance and Viola! Everything was fixed!
>
>Hope this helps some of you who have tried all the other fixes with no luck.
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