re: Question about 'What do I do with "unknown" devices in Device Manager?'
Thursday, November 24, 2005 at 12:02 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(23824 messages posted)
The multiple upgrade path was definitely NOT the way to go, and quite a waste of
time. Is the modem built-in, or is it a card? I would disable the serial ports in
the BIOS before installing, and I'd start over and do a clean install.
On Thursday, November 24, 2005 at 11:22 am, Wade McClain wrote:
>Laptop worked fine until a problem caused me to fdisk and format the hardrive. Upon
>re-installing winxp, I had
>four unknown devices. downloaded drivers from support and all went away and worked
>except the modem which installed itself on com3. Cannot change it to com1 because
>it's being used by "another" device.
>Have fdisk'ed again, worked up from win98, win2k and
>back into winxp to no avail. have moved modem to com2 with no help. Modem says its
>okay but computer freezes when diagnosis is used and I must
>remove power to get a re-boot. Laptop is a gateway
>1500 and works great except for modem.
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