A8N-SLI Deluxe "Unknown Device" In Device Manager

[tretneo]

Has anyone noticed that after installing the Nvidia Nforce Unified drivers that windows says a device was not installed properly in the bottom right corner and then an Unknown Device is still showing in the Device Manager after mobo, sound, video drivers are all in place.

I figured out that this is the ATK0110 ACPI Utility after trying every driver I could find available from Asus. It was not with the Nforce drivers and had nothing to do with sound, video or any other controller but actually was in the Asus AIBooster package under the ACPI directory. I assume I was seeing the Unknown Device because I do not install the Asus Utilities. I think it is pretty goofy that this is not installed as part of the Mobo Nforce drivers.

I wasn't sure if this had been posted already but I wanted to post this in case anyone else is annoyed by seeing an Unknown Device in the Device Manager.

tret

 

[Thorsson]

It's the Marvel Ethernet. Update online and this will be sorted.

 

[tretneo]

Originally posted by: Thorsson
It's the Marvel Ethernet. Update online and this will be sorted.

What are you talking about?

tret

 

[rickcfer]

You saved my sanity!!! How did you ever come across that driver? The nforce drivers would not have a proprietary Asus AI driver. Are you sure that's the correct drver for the "unknown driver" ? I was able to load the nvidia raid controller driver in place of it. That was ONLY when I did'nt have a raid array. Any idea the impact of the ATK0110 ACPI driver? Again thanks much as it appears to be the correct driver: I only hope Asus has a bios update the could disable the need for it.

 

[ahurtt]

ACPI = Advanced Configuration and Power Interface. ACPI establishes industry-standard interfaces for OS-directed configuration and power management on laptops, desktops, and servers.

There are ACPI options in the BIOS for the A8N under the Power Management section I believe. Maybe you could disable it but then you probably wouldn't have options like Hibernate / Suspend, and other power management options available to turn off hard drives and monitor after periods of inactivity and the like. . .I had the same problem initially but was able to determine that it was an ACPI device by looking at the information about the device and then I tried having windows search for a driver. When it didn't automatically find one, I specified to search for a specific driver in a specific location, popped in the motherboard CD and windows found it on there automatically.

 

[rickcfer]

Anybody try Windows XP 64 Bit Edition? I can't get the ATK0110 ACPI Utility driver to load from their most recent AI utility download. It says it includes a 64 bit driver but it will not load. And yes I went to the 64 bit inf.