windows finds nonexistant card

[Guest]

I have a motherboard with one pcie 16x graphics card installed and nothing
else. When I do a fresh installation of windows xp the device manager shows
an unknown pci device in the list. When I delete the pci device and restart
windows, the pci device is found again, even though there is nothing in any
of the pci slots. I've gone over my BIOS settings several times and cannot
seem to locate any option that might affect this problem. Any suggestions
would be appreciated.

 

[deebs]

I have a motherboard with one pcie 16x graphics card installed and nothing
else. When I do a fresh installation of windows xp the device manager shows
an unknown pci device in the list. When I delete the pci device and restart
windows, the pci device is found again, even though there is nothing in any
of the pci slots. I've gone over my BIOS settings several times and cannot
seem to locate any option that might affect this problem. Any suggestions
would be appreciated.

Maybe it is a dual pci card?

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the suggestion, but I found that it was my motherboard's onboard
audio device that I never installed drivers for. I went into my BIOS and
disabled the onboard audio, loaded Windows and the PCI device no longer
appeared in the Device Manager. Went back into my BIOS, enabled the onboard
audio and found the "PCI Device" in the Device Manager.