Another problem

[savagcl]

Just installed Win2K, removed WinME completely before Win2K.

In device manager for Win2K, I have the dreaded question mark! Its shown as a PCI device and says drivers are not installed. As near as i can narrow it down is "PCI Bus 0 (zero), Device 31, function 3". It uses IRQ 10 but i have no idea what the actual device is, where it is, or what it does......

Any ideas?????

thanks,
savagkc

[omendata]

What motherboard do you have and what is in the pci sockets , also what onboard devices are enabled - Ive seen strange things like this on old Aztec soundcards that supposedly have a modem inbuilt but in fact do not and other older devices!!!

It may be as simple as disabling an onboard hardware bios option.

At a pure guess I would say an onboard network card.

[Midknyte]

what kind of board is it? did you install the chipset drivers and the latest service pack?

[omendata]

Ive just had a thought - bearing in mind your other post it could be the soundcard/game port for the joystick!!!

[BipolarBill]

You have to load the chipset drivers first. Anything left after that is likely a modem or soundcard.

[savagcl]

Its an old system and i forgot a lot of that info you are asking for.... I'm just checking out the system for her.

Disabling/enabling the PCI device seems to have no effect on any operations.

I do remember that i pulled down, installed the intel harddisk accelerator a long time ago (it worked good). If when WIN2K was loaded, the file system was changed from fat32 to ntsc(?) could this be it?

Since games needing a joystick are never played on this pc, think i'll just disable it and move on to something else (my time is limited here).

tried the digital logitec joystick driver and couldnt get it to show up as a selectable item. If i get the chance, i'll try a USB stick later.

thanks,
savagkc