Plug-And-Play Not Working?

[Guest]

I'm trying to add a PCI-based card to my desktop PC running XP Pro (SP2).
The card hardware is good (tested on another computer) but mine won't
recognize anything new is plugged into any available PCI bus.

I've confirmed that the PNP Service is running...

I'm looking for suggestions on what else to check or how to confirm that the
OS sees PNP as operational. Ultimately I'm looking to get the card
recognized, of course. Using Add/Remove Hardware won't find anything in the
PCI slot either. It's really odd.

Thanks!

 

[Terry]

When I've had that problem in the past I've switched pci slots, or
start moving cards around till they all recognize, thats worked for me
about 99 percent of the time, one time on an acer, I put in a cisco
wireless card and when i booted, no video.. fought with that one for
about 3 or 4 hours. finally had to disable the onboard network and put
in a pci network card. So it was a resource issue.. might try looking
into the bios at the pci slot configuration

 

[Trooper]

I'm trying to add a PCI-based card to my desktop PC running XP Pro (SP2).
The card hardware is good (tested on another computer) but mine won't
recognize anything new is plugged into any available PCI bus.

I've confirmed that the PNP Service is running...

I'm looking for suggestions on what else to check or how to confirm that the
OS sees PNP as operational. Ultimately I'm looking to get the card
recognized, of course. Using Add/Remove Hardware won't find anything in the
PCI slot either. It's really odd.

Thanks!

Open Device Manager:
Verify the device is not already installed with errors.....
Could be that address conflicts with other devices are prohibiting the
starting up of the device, or the OS recognized a device but did not
have drivers to initiate it.
If device is not installed, right-click on your computer's name, "Scan
for hardware changes"

 

[Elmo]

I'm trying to add a PCI-based card to my desktop PC running XP Pro (SP2).
The card hardware is good (tested on another computer) but mine won't
recognize anything new is plugged into any available PCI bus.

I've confirmed that the PNP Service is running...

I'm looking for suggestions on what else to check or how to confirm that the
OS sees PNP as operational. Ultimately I'm looking to get the card
recognized, of course. Using Add/Remove Hardware won't find anything in the
PCI slot either. It's really odd.

Thanks!

Remove the Sound card, restart the computer. Once the card is found,
shut down, add the sound card and it may be found and added. If the
sound card is part of the main board, enter the BIOS, disable the
o-board sound, restart. After the new device is found, go back to the
BIOS and add the sound card again.