mysterious pci device

[Guest]

I've got a device in device manager that shows to be a pci device. The only
pci devices on the machine are a fax modem, nic card, and a sound card. all
three show up in DM without any errors. The video is agp. I've remove all
three devices, bot up and still get the pci device with a questions mark.
Then I'll run a manual scan for hardware changes, and it still detects the
pci device. What's going on ?

The user also has the intermitent problems of the system locking up, in
addition to what appears to be the monitor going into sleep mode whiule the
user is at the machine. The antivirus is current, I've run adware, spybot,
etc, and everything comes back clean.

The only change I can think of, is that the user recently changed over to a
wireless mouse. I've seen that when the batteries get low, the computer
sometimes does some funny things, but I haven't run across these symptons
before. I know that I've pretty much run the gamut, but let me know what you
think. TIA

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

sigm fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

I've got a device in device manager that shows to be a pci device.
The only pci devices on the machine are a fax modem, nic card, and a
sound card. all three show up in DM without any errors. The video is
agp. I've remove all three devices, bot up and still get the pci
device with a questions mark. Then I'll run a manual scan for
hardware changes, and it still detects the pci device. What's going
on ?

The user also has the intermitent problems of the system locking up,
in addition to what appears to be the monitor going into sleep mode
whiule the user is at the machine. The antivirus is current, I've run
adware, spybot, etc, and everything comes back clean.

The only change I can think of, is that the user recently changed
over to a wireless mouse. I've seen that when the batteries get low,
the computer sometimes does some funny things, but I haven't run
across these symptons before. I know that I've pretty much run the
gamut, but let me know what you think. TIA

Try running Aida32 across your system

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download181.html

or its newer freeware (from the commercial product version)

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/...s_Utilities/Lavalys_EVEREST_Home_Edition.html

May help to pinpoiint it?

 

[John Thomas Smith]

I've got a device in device manager that shows to be a pci device. The only
pci devices on the machine are a fax modem, nic card, and a sound card. all
three show up in DM without any errors. The video is agp. I've remove all
three devices, bot up and still get the pci device with a questions mark.
Then I'll run a manual scan for hardware changes, and it still detects the
pci device. What's going on ?

Is this a motherboard which has built in sound or video? It COULD
be possible that the devices are not properly disabled in BIOS

John Thomas Smith
http://www.direct2usales.com
http://www.pacifier.com/~jtsmith