New hardware found for every change, over and over

[Ray]

My Win2K can't handle hardware changes all lot.

1. Adding a USB memory stick pops up the new hardware found wizard and
there is no way to bypass that. On other Win2K installs, the memory
stick will mount itself without a problem.

2. A while ago, my CD-writer was broken. The replacement (another make
and type) asked for a driver via the new hardware found wizard. Had to
reinstall the
Nero to solve this (does Nero install a CD-writer driver?).

3. Recently I replaced an ATAPI ZIP disk with an additional 20 GB IDE
harddisk and same happens: new hardware wizard comes in and does not
leave me anymore. I guess it already has a suitable drive for
harddisks.

4. Then I tried to swap the IDE assignment (slave/master) of the
CD-writer and the additional harddisk. Now I have 2 devices begging
for a driver via the new hardware found wizard: the CD-writer and the
additional harddisk.

Apperently, Win2K has some mechanism that determines whether a device
requires a new driver, or to consider it as new hardware. Is there any
way to stop that mechanism? Any help on this issue is appreciated?

Thanks,

Ray

 

[Mistoffolees]

My Win2K can't handle hardware changes all lot.

1. Adding a USB memory stick pops up the new hardware found wizard and
there is no way to bypass that. On other Win2K installs, the memory
stick will mount itself without a problem.

2. A while ago, my CD-writer was broken. The replacement (another make
and type) asked for a driver via the new hardware found wizard. Had to
reinstall the
Nero to solve this (does Nero install a CD-writer driver?).

3. Recently I replaced an ATAPI ZIP disk with an additional 20 GB IDE
harddisk and same happens: new hardware wizard comes in and does not
leave me anymore. I guess it already has a suitable drive for
harddisks.

4. Then I tried to swap the IDE assignment (slave/master) of the
CD-writer and the additional harddisk. Now I have 2 devices begging
for a driver via the new hardware found wizard: the CD-writer and the
additional harddisk.

Apperently, Win2K has some mechanism that determines whether a device
requires a new driver, or to consider it as new hardware. Is there any
way to stop that mechanism? Any help on this issue is appreciated?

Thanks,

Ray

The first thing to do might be to go into system bios
setup and verify that the Plug and Play OS setting is
disabled or off. Next, open the computer case and verify
that the configurations of the various devices are set
up as intended, e.g., IDE assignments in Disk Management
should match their physical configuration. Third, what
happens when the hardware wizard is allowed to complete
its task, when requested?

 

[Ray]

The first thing to do might be to go into system bios
setup and verify that the Plug and Play OS setting is
disabled or off. Next, open the computer case and verify
that the configurations of the various devices are set
up as intended, e.g., IDE assignments in Disk Management
should match their physical configuration. Third, what
happens when the hardware wizard is allowed to complete
its task, when requested?

BIOS setup: was set to enabled. Changed that to disabled, then tried
again. No luck.

Check IDE assigment and configuration: Nothing wrong with that.
Noticed though, that the 2nd disk had the boot indicator in the
partition table set to 80 (bootable disk). Changed that to 00 (not
bootable). No luck.

Hardware wizard: it simply can not find a driver, default, it asks for
a driver in A: and the CD-ROM. I once changed this manually to look
for a driver in c:/winnt/inf. But even here, no driver is found. It
then tells that no driver could be found and that the device will be
disabled.

Thanks again,

Ray