My new P4P800

[Musashi]

I have completed my new P4P800 with
P4 3.0 Ghz and 2 x 256 Crucial.
I used a ghosted 80g seagate barracuda
HD from my P4PE machine, and everything booted up, Win2000 found new stuff,
the usual.

My only problem is that I have 4 unknown
devices (question marks) in device manager listed under "other devices".
I've already gone through the CD that came with the P4P800 board.
What could these be? And can I "disable" them without worry?

Thanks VM

 

[Hawkeye]

If all your known devices are listed and working you might delete
these items in question and reboot to see if you get a new device
detected notification see if you can figure it out from there. Might
delete 1 item at a time per reboot to avoid confusion

 

[Ken Fox]

I have completed my new P4P800 with
P4 3.0 Ghz and 2 x 256 Crucial.
I used a ghosted 80g seagate barracuda
HD from my P4PE machine, and everything booted up, Win2000 found new stuff,
the usual.

My only problem is that I have 4 unknown
devices (question marks) in device manager listed under "other devices".
I've already gone through the CD that came with the P4P800 board.
What could these be? And can I "disable" them without worry?

Thanks VM

Possibly one is the RAID controller.

Since you used a ghosted image from another motherboard with a different
chipset, it is hard to figure out what is going on. Maybe the best thing to
do is to delete the devices and then the PNP operating system will find them
again. Maybe this time around you will have a better idea of what they
represent as conflicts from old device drivers hopefully will be eliminated.

But there may well be better suggestions ---

ken
p.s. do these devices show up under safe mode?

 

[Musashi]

If all your known devices are listed and working you might delete
these items in question and reboot to see if you get a new device
detected notification see if you can figure it out from there. Might
delete 1 item at a time per reboot to avoid confusion

I deleted them from Device Manager, and on reboot Win2k detects them
and goes through the driver install deal.
All 4 question marks are back in my device manager.
Same thing whether deleted one at a time or all at once.

 

[Musashi]

Possibly one is the RAID controller.

Since you used a ghosted image from another motherboard with a different
chipset, it is hard to figure out what is going on. Maybe the best thing to
do is to delete the devices and then the PNP operating system will find them
again. Maybe this time around you will have a better idea of what they
represent as conflicts from old device drivers hopefully will be eliminated.

But there may well be better suggestions ---

ken
p.s. do these devices show up under safe mode?

Under safe mode, they are not there.

 

[Max Attar Feingold]

I deleted them from Device Manager, and on reboot Win2k detects them
and goes through the driver install deal.
All 4 question marks are back in my device manager.
Same thing whether deleted one at a time or all at once.

Install the Intel Inf update.

Max Attar Feingold
maf6 at cornell dot edu
http://almonaster.sourceforge.net/mfeingol/

Not speaking for my employer

 

[Darkfalz]

My only problem is that I have 4 unknown

devices (question marks) in device manager listed under "other devices".
I've already gone through the CD that came with the P4P800 board.
What could these be? And can I "disable" them without worry?

Probably your

SoundMAX onboard sound
Your VIA Firewire
Your 3com Gigabit LAN
Your VIA RAID driver

 

[Ken Fox]

thing

Under safe mode, they are not there.

Under safe mode, only certain basic devices will show up (this is why you
can go into safe mode and resolve conflicts that you could not resolve under
normal boot mode). I'm not exactly sure which of your devices would show up
in regular vs. safe mode, but hopefully someone else more familiar with your
particular mobo (I am not, I have the 865 based P4P800Dlx) would be more
helpful when it comes to chipset drivers and other embedded mobo devices.
Sounds like this is related to the chipset, methinks.

ken

 

[Ken Fox]

Under safe mode, only certain basic devices will show up (this is why you
can go into safe mode and resolve conflicts that you could not resolve under
normal boot mode). I'm not exactly sure which of your devices would show up
in regular vs. safe mode, but hopefully someone else more familiar with your
particular mobo (I am not, I have the 865 based P4P800Dlx) would be more
helpful when it comes to chipset drivers and other embedded mobo devices.
Sounds like this is related to the chipset, methinks.

ken

excuse my brainfart. What I meant to say is that your former mobo, had a
different chipset (some sort of 845, right?), and when you transfer the
ghosted image from that board the operating system is finding a different
chipset on the new system than the drivers you have for the old one. So, I
think this is what you need, a new set of chipset drivers. Someone else in
another part of this thread said essentially the same thing, I think.

ken
p.s. check out the Asus website and search out the downloads for the P4P800
and you should find the chipset drivers in there somewhere.

 

[yogi]

Have you reinstalled your Modem drivers, I usually have unknown
devices on a new install, but once I reinstall the Modem drivers that
clear some of them up. One such device is the voice/audio driver for
the Modem, worth a try.
What I have done in the past before moving drives is to remove the
USB and other Motherboard section of the Hardware before I move the
drives so that the OS can find and install the needed hardware drivers
thereby removing some of the possible hardware conflicts by having the
wrong drivers still listed in the Registry, INI and INF files.

Cheers

I have completed my new P4P800 with
P4 3.0 Ghz and 2 x 256 Crucial.
I used a ghosted 80g seagate barracuda
HD from my P4PE machine, and everything booted up, Win2000 found new stuff,
the usual.

My only problem is that I have 4 unknown
devices (question marks) in device manager listed under "other devices".
I've already gone through the CD that came with the P4P800 board.
What could these be? And can I "disable" them without worry?

Thanks VM

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[Musashi]

My thanks to everyone who answered.
The 4 unknown devices turned out to the videocapture chipset
on my Gainward GE Force4 video card which I had forgotten all about,
and the win2k drivers were not up todate.
New drivers from the Gainward site cleared my device manager.
Aghain thanks very much

Musashi