Unknown device

[chasm22]

Under control panel/system/device manager I have a heading "Other device". Under that heading, I have an "unknown device". I don't know what the heck it is. I have tried to remove it, but everytime I reboot Windows discovers this unknown device, tries to find drivers for it and fails. How do I find out what this is or how do I get rid of it? Everything seems to be OK.

 

[sohcrates]

that's pretty common...as long as everything works, and you're not "missing" something you use often, there's absolutely no harm in leaving that there. sometimes it's a modem, or some kind of proprietary onboard mobo device...

 

[rbV5]

While in device manager, remove the device and then right-click and "scan for harware changes" when windows detects the device, follow the installation routine, you should get a clue as to what the device is.

 

[chasm22]

rbV5;

I tried that several times. I just get the usual. Windows searches for the driver, doesn't find it.

 

[crazychicken]

if you have a soundcard, diable mobo sound in the bios

that fixed all my problems

 

[Hexadecimal]

But sometimes if you disable mobo sound it will still pop up as unkown device, happened to my friend, could be happeing to you.

 

[chasm22]

I looked around in my bios(kt7a raid). How do I disable the m/b sound?

 

[Pederv]

Sounds like the wavedevice for your modem. Next time it does a search for your unknown device, point it to your modem drivers. Actually it's probably a wave.inf file your looking for but it should be found with your modem drivers.

 

[chasm22]

Pederv;

I don't have a modem installed.