re: Empty Device Manager - ULTIMATE SOLUTION
Sunday, December 25, 2005 at 9:42 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gordon
(1 messages posted)
Have no knowledge of linux but wiping disk and reinstalling windows will work. However
I had a lot of installed software and 3 computers which after installing SP2 had
following problems: No PCI irq's shown in Device Manger, network card not shown and
plug and play did not work. Solution was one of those mentioned in thread, lots of
garbage entries under enum pci in registry, dozens of them. After trying to delete
them one by one I tried to delete the PCI key and was refused permission. However,
all the garbage entries disappeared in the process and the genuine entries remained.
Looks like the nothing in the device manger is a situation where enough gargage entries
in one part of the registry would allow no genuine entries to show just as my genuine
pci irq enties did not show becasue they were crowded out by garbage entries. When
I tried to delete the key the garbage enties were deleted but as soon as the system
reached a genuine entry it stopped.
Conclusions. Dont be scared to delete enties that look dodgy. Must of them seem to
start with $ sign (no offence to USA
On Thursday, December 22, 2005 at 12:11 pm, Miles Prower wrote:
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>The Ultimate Answer: .. wipe the pc and stick linux on it. Problem Solved.
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