WTF - Neverending 'Found New Hardware' dialog

Post by **Foo** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 6:11 pm

Just building up a PC for my sister. Budget POS, running on an Asus A8S-X motherboard (http://usa.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3 ... odelmenu=1)

When I get into windows, it's an unstoppable sea of 'Found New Hardware' wizards. The problem is, most of them are for 'Unknown Device', and it never finds the drivers for the devices even if the motherboard CD is in the drive.

So I'm trying to install the drivers manually. Only problem is that none of the manual installations can complete when there's an active 'Found New Hardware' dialog box open. Great.

Any suggestions?

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 6:35 pm

what is installed on the computer?

did you run the Nforce Drivers?

When you look in my computer do you see everything listed?

Post by **Foo** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 6:40 pm

1. Nothing is installed except Windows XP Home - I've just started putting it together starting from components.

2. It's an SIS chipset - I don't see any drivers listed for the motherboard. So far I've successfully installed a driver for one of the IDE channels. That's all.

3. Yes, drive and DVD are both present.

Under device manager, there's a shit-ton of 'Unknown Device' and a fair number of recognised devices with questions marks for icons (PCI-to-PCI Bridge, IDE Channels)

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 6:45 pm

Sorry, i read it as a7n-X mobo,

Humm, Have you tryed windows update to see if it could find what devices thos are?

and one min i will see if there is anything on that mobo that needs to be installed...

Post by **Foo** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 6:56 pm

Megagay.

Post by **dzjepp** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:02 pm

Heh that's a ton of shit you got there...

Is all the hardware that you put in the box accounted for (installed)? Can you cancel out of all the prompts, then when it's quiet go to device manager and try and select one entry for manual driver search?

Post by **Foo** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:04 pm

I gave up pressing cancel after about the 50th box came up.

The entire PC consists of the motherboard, a Geforce 6500, 80Gb HD, and a CD Writer.

Nothing more.

Regarding manual driver search - I could do that, it gives me the option. But I have no idea what these things are so throwing some random .inf file at one would seem pointless.

Post by **dzjepp** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:12 pm

Don't think you should have unknown device entries in system devices, a wild stab but mebbe the mobo is fubared?

Post by **Foo** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:52 pm

What chipset drivers? Read the thread you muffin.

Anyways it's moot - I reinstalled windows and this time it's behaving differently. Stupid stuff is still happening (Like firefox wont run at all, crashes every time) but at least I'm over the first bizarre problem.

Cheers for the suggestions.

Post by **Foo** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:37 pm

The dodginess continues - Firefox runs now after rebooting, but keeps randomly crashing out... And it's not alone. Google Earth isn't exactly happy either.

I guess it could be bad ram or disk - What's a good test suite?

Post by **Foo** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:30 pm

Rolled back google earth to an older version.

Swapped Firefox for Opera. Can't be fucked to trace the fault. If Opera works and firefox doesn't then fuck firefox she can have opera.

Post by **axbaby** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:03 pm

only device my computers always have finding are Ethernet cards.

can it be the bios setting let windows manage resources or plug &play setting?

Post by **ilumos** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 4:57 pm

Something's seriously not right there, either 'doze has gone spazzy or there's a minor fault with the motherboard. Or a combination of the two. (sorry for stating the obvious)

If you have the time/resources/inclination swap out some hardware, try RAM and CPU. Or perhaps try a different 'doze install disk

As for memory testing, try Memtest.