DeadSeaSquirrels
Senior member
Ok I am running win2k on an Abit Kt-7, 600mhz duron...that shouldn't make a difference. I have two ethernet cards, a sound card, and a video card on the AGP...so I tried to install a modem on my board (PCI, standard USR faxmodem).
First off, I wanted to have some spacing so put the modem on the PCI slot closest to the ISA slot (I never remember the numbering direction). When I did that, and boot-up, Windows detected new hardware but said something about looking for drivers for PCI simple controller. I thought, ok maybe that is because of some IRQ conflict with the ISA slot, even though nothing is on the ISA slot. Whatever the case, I move the modem on to another PCI slot, and I get the same message? What is that message mean? And where do I get this driver? It is not on the 2k disk (or at least I don't know where).
Finally when it asked me upon boot-up about installing the hardware, I chose manually to install a modem, not some controller or whatnot. I also had the drivers on disk (at this point on some temp drive).
Another weird thing that may be related to this problem was that, usually I would ignore this "installing PCI simple controller" message, and then try to install the modem again by doing a "add hardware." When I did that and it was time to select the driver for the modem, I had it in a temp folder, but when I selected "have disk" I would go to that directory, but windows would not show any drivers that "matched" my new hardware (the modem), in fact it showned nothing when I chose the .inf file given from a self-extracting USR driver utility. It was not until, instead of bypassing that message above, I chose to install manually a modem (again not some controller) when it prompted for the drivers for the "simple controller." In that case, it did recognize the directory that I had the drivers in and it showed the appropriate modem model in the compatible hardware list.
Long and boring enough...please say no, and pass along some wisdom.
First off, I wanted to have some spacing so put the modem on the PCI slot closest to the ISA slot (I never remember the numbering direction). When I did that, and boot-up, Windows detected new hardware but said something about looking for drivers for PCI simple controller. I thought, ok maybe that is because of some IRQ conflict with the ISA slot, even though nothing is on the ISA slot. Whatever the case, I move the modem on to another PCI slot, and I get the same message? What is that message mean? And where do I get this driver? It is not on the 2k disk (or at least I don't know where).
Finally when it asked me upon boot-up about installing the hardware, I chose manually to install a modem, not some controller or whatnot. I also had the drivers on disk (at this point on some temp drive).
Another weird thing that may be related to this problem was that, usually I would ignore this "installing PCI simple controller" message, and then try to install the modem again by doing a "add hardware." When I did that and it was time to select the driver for the modem, I had it in a temp folder, but when I selected "have disk" I would go to that directory, but windows would not show any drivers that "matched" my new hardware (the modem), in fact it showned nothing when I chose the .inf file given from a self-extracting USR driver utility. It was not until, instead of bypassing that message above, I chose to install manually a modem (again not some controller) when it prompted for the drivers for the "simple controller." In that case, it did recognize the directory that I had the drivers in and it showed the appropriate modem model in the compatible hardware list.
Long and boring enough...please say no, and pass along some wisdom.
