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re: Question about 'What do I do with "unknown" devices in Device Manager?'
Monday, April 17, 2006 at 2:14 pm
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Posted by Bad boy (1 messages posted)

I agree with Ricer46. Try disabling the device ports in the BIOS. Then do a clean install. Ensure that you partition the disk properly and you should be ok.

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. :)

Written in response to:: Question about 'What do I do with "unknown" devices in Device Manager?' (Wade McClain: Thursday, November 24, 2005 at 11:22 am)

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Question about 'What do I do with "unknown" devices in Device Manager?' (Wade McClain: Thu, Nov 24, 2005, 11:22 am)

re: Question about 'What do I do with "unknown" devices in Device Manager?' (Ricer46: Thu, Nov 24, 2005, 12:02 pm)

re: Question about 'What do I do with "unknown" devices in Device Manager?' (antoniom: Thu, Nov 24, 2005, 1:04 pm)

re: Question about 'What do I do with "unknown" devices in Device Manager?' (Bad boy: Mon, Apr 17, 2006, 2:14 pm)

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