Dual system everything !

[cbs604]

I've heard of dual processors, but this is rediculous. Have a P4 system with Win ME that has almost every system device duplicated, one with the yellow flag. Std Floppy Controller, Std 101 keyboard, P/S mouse port, MPU-401 MIDI device, and the list goes on. Apart from that, pc seems to be working fine.

Tried removing, for example STD floppy controller, both the good one and the offending one, but it re-discovers it TWICE on next boot up, one with yellow flag.

Had a look at each of the offending devices, and they all are either missing IRQ's or conflicting with another device.

There are some other strange things going on with this thing as well, that need investigating. Example, when opening device manager tab, DUN dialog box pops up.

Not sure what to do with this one apart from a complete re-install. But I'm really curious with what the problem may be.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Brodie

 

[franklin97355]

In safe mode remove them all and let the computer find them again. make sure you have a drivers disk for those items that are nonstandard on you setup.

 

[cdogg]

If you're curious, I suggest googling. A format/clean install is the clearly the fix, and if someone wants to induldge you with their time by listing the "possible" causes, then that's great. But I'm not so sure I would count on it giving you a clear cut answer.

Plus, there is a WinME forum. You have posted this in the hardware forum.

~cdogg
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[tschuy]

Problem is that you're using WinME .

Do some registry hacking in the ENUM and that'll clear it up..

 

[cbs604]

Yeah, yeah, I know - but the customer likes his WinME. ???

Anyway, there were a number of other wierd issues with this one, so a re-install was the eventual answer.

And I will post in the right forum if I get (shudder) another WinME problem.





Cheers,
Brodie