"Found New Hardware Wizard" won't stop coming

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I recently installed a video card. A day later I downloaded and installed
the drivers/software from that video card's website. They seemed to
install ok, and it's working fine. But even during the driver installation
the Found New Hardware Wizard kept popping up. And now every time I run
this Win2000 computer, this Found New Hardware Wizard, and the Found New
Hardware window(that says "unknown" and "installing" keep popping up. I can
X both of them, and they are right back.

Can someone help me figure this out and stop these two windows from
constantly popping up?

Thanks, John
 
Device Manager has a yellow question mark next to "other devices" and all
entries under this category have yellow question marks, including 6 "unknown
device" entries. Which correlates with the Found New Hardware window that
has the word "unknown" in it. When you look at the Properties of the
"unknown" device, the location is listed as "on Radeon 7500" which is the
model of the video card I installed. So there must be a connection, but
I've run the video card installation more than once. I wonder if it's the
TV tuner on this card, could that be showing up as an unknown device,
perhaps it's a separate installation that I don't know about.
 
Thanks for the driver names, and order. That was something I was really
puzzling about. And I fixed the "found new hardware wizard" problem. There
were six copies of "unknown device" in Device Manager, under Other Devices.
I hadn't disabled all of them. I did that and the problem stopped. And I
just checked Device Manager, and all six are back and enabled, but the
"found new hardware wizard" problem isn't occurring any more. So I'm still
in the
dark about this but at least the problem stopped.

John
 
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