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"Found New Hardware" popup keeps appearing...

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Hi folks,

My friend improperly installed a wireless PCMCIA card in a Centrino notebook with Windows XP SP2 installed. Now everytime it boots up, the "Found New Hardware" pop-up box appears. I can see that there's an Unknown Device in the Device Manager under System Devices. I've tried to delete Uninstall the device; but it gets identified once the system reboots.

Anyone knows how I can remove the device permanently?


Thanks in advance.
 
Simplest solution would be to go into device manager after the device is detected and select 'do not use this device (disable)', this should stop the annoying message appearing

the alternative would be to find out what hardware windows is detecting and try to find drivers for it.

 
You cannot delete Unknown Device entries since these are the result of a HARDWARE detection. Figure out what it is (e.g. by looking at the "location" information in its properties window) and install the driver for it.
 
Managed to finally find out the device: ACPI ATK0100 (blah, blah). I've no idea why it wasn't there previously. Thanks for the help folks.
 
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