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PCI Ethernet Controller - add new hardware wizard
Strangest thing happened. When I booted up got the Add new hardware wizard.
Said PCI Ethernet Controller. I clicked next for let windows do the automatic search for it, and it came back and said it could not find it. Then I tried to do the advanced... only the A: drive showed up as a drive to select to browse. I then went to system device mgr, saw Other Devices with yellow question mark, clicked on it and saw the PCI Ethernet controller with yellow question mark too. I then clicked on refresh, and it disappeared. Also, I couldnt connect to the internet. I then did a winipcfg release all/renew all, and rebooted. This time the wizard did not show, and the Other devices does not show anymore. Internet access is now working too. What just happened here? anything I should do? |
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PCI Ethernet Controller - add new hardware wizard
Don't sweat it - Windows found and installed the driver.
"Donna" wrote in message ... Strangest thing happened. When I booted up got the Add new hardware wizard. Said PCI Ethernet Controller. I clicked next for let windows do the automatic search for it, and it came back and said it could not find it. Then I tried to do the advanced... only the A: drive showed up as a drive to select to browse. I then went to system device mgr, saw Other Devices with yellow question mark, clicked on it and saw the PCI Ethernet controller with yellow question mark too. I then clicked on refresh, and it disappeared. Also, I couldnt connect to the internet. I then did a winipcfg release all/renew all, and rebooted. This time the wizard did not show, and the Other devices does not show anymore. Internet access is now working too. What just happened here? anything I should do? |
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PCI Ethernet Controller - add new hardware wizard
Donna
It's likely that you have multiple installs of some drivers - try this and see what you can see... Reboot to Safe Mode Open Device Manager Look for duplicate entries for affected hardware Remove ALL instances of such duplicates (leave entries in the System branch alone for the moment) reboot to Normal Mode - Windows will reinstall required drivers. See if that corrects your errors. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Donna" wrote in message ... Strangest thing happened. When I booted up got the Add new hardware wizard. Said PCI Ethernet Controller. I clicked next for let windows do the automatic search for it, and it came back and said it could not find it. Then I tried to do the advanced... only the A: drive showed up as a drive to select to browse. I then went to system device mgr, saw Other Devices with yellow question mark, clicked on it and saw the PCI Ethernet controller with yellow question mark too. I then clicked on refresh, and it disappeared. Also, I couldnt connect to the internet. I then did a winipcfg release all/renew all, and rebooted. This time the wizard did not show, and the Other devices does not show anymore. Internet access is now working too. What just happened here? anything I should do? |
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PCI Ethernet Controller - add new hardware wizard
I'm not sure how to identify the duplicates.
Network adapters has a lot of entires. Didnt see the PCI Ethernet Controller under any of the categories.. How would I identify a dup "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... Donna It's likely that you have multiple installs of some drivers - try this and see what you can see... Reboot to Safe Mode Open Device Manager Look for duplicate entries for affected hardware Remove ALL instances of such duplicates (leave entries in the System branch alone for the moment) reboot to Normal Mode - Windows will reinstall required drivers. See if that corrects your errors. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Donna" wrote in message ... Strangest thing happened. When I booted up got the Add new hardware wizard. Said PCI Ethernet Controller. I clicked next for let windows do the automatic search for it, and it came back and said it could not find it. Then I tried to do the advanced... only the A: drive showed up as a drive to select to browse. I then went to system device mgr, saw Other Devices with yellow question mark, clicked on it and saw the PCI Ethernet controller with yellow question mark too. I then clicked on refresh, and it disappeared. Also, I couldnt connect to the internet. I then did a winipcfg release all/renew all, and rebooted. This time the wizard did not show, and the Other devices does not show anymore. Internet access is now working too. What just happened here? anything I should do? |
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PCI Ethernet Controller - add new hardware wizard
two identical entries!
-- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Donna" wrote in message ... I'm not sure how to identify the duplicates. Network adapters has a lot of entires. Didnt see the PCI Ethernet Controller under any of the categories.. How would I identify a dup "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... Donna It's likely that you have multiple installs of some drivers - try this and see what you can see... Reboot to Safe Mode Open Device Manager Look for duplicate entries for affected hardware Remove ALL instances of such duplicates (leave entries in the System branch alone for the moment) reboot to Normal Mode - Windows will reinstall required drivers. See if that corrects your errors. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Donna" wrote in message ... Strangest thing happened. When I booted up got the Add new hardware wizard. Said PCI Ethernet Controller. I clicked next for let windows do the automatic search for it, and it came back and said it could not find it. Then I tried to do the advanced... only the A: drive showed up as a drive to select to browse. I then went to system device mgr, saw Other Devices with yellow question mark, clicked on it and saw the PCI Ethernet controller with yellow question mark too. I then clicked on refresh, and it disappeared. Also, I couldnt connect to the internet. I then did a winipcfg release all/renew all, and rebooted. This time the wizard did not show, and the Other devices does not show anymore. Internet access is now working too. What just happened here? anything I should do? |
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PCI Ethernet Controller - add new hardware wizard
well, boy do I feel foolish.... oh well. Thats why you're the expert and
I'm asking for help! There were three entries for one of the network adapters. I removed two of them (all three were identical). And that pesky OTHER was there with a yellow ? and the PCI ethernet Controller was there again with a yellow ?. I removed that one again too then rebooted. "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... two identical entries! -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Donna" wrote in message ... I'm not sure how to identify the duplicates. Network adapters has a lot of entires. Didnt see the PCI Ethernet Controller under any of the categories.. How would I identify a dup "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... Donna It's likely that you have multiple installs of some drivers - try this and see what you can see... Reboot to Safe Mode Open Device Manager Look for duplicate entries for affected hardware Remove ALL instances of such duplicates (leave entries in the System branch alone for the moment) reboot to Normal Mode - Windows will reinstall required drivers. See if that corrects your errors. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Donna" wrote in message ... Strangest thing happened. When I booted up got the Add new hardware wizard. Said PCI Ethernet Controller. I clicked next for let windows do the automatic search for it, and it came back and said it could not find it. Then I tried to do the advanced... only the A: drive showed up as a drive to select to browse. I then went to system device mgr, saw Other Devices with yellow question mark, clicked on it and saw the PCI Ethernet controller with yellow question mark too. I then clicked on refresh, and it disappeared. Also, I couldnt connect to the internet. I then did a winipcfg release all/renew all, and rebooted. This time the wizard did not show, and the Other devices does not show anymore. Internet access is now working too. What just happened here? anything I should do? |
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Donna - I said to delete ALL instances!!
There's a reason for that, so now finish the job, by rebooting to Safe Mode again, and removing the NIC completely. This give Windows the chance to find the NIC again, and reinstall the drivers properly - chances are that you currently have two entries for it if you look again in Safe Mode (and even if only one, how do you know it's not the *wrong* one??) -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Donna" wrote in message ... well, boy do I feel foolish.... oh well. Thats why you're the expert and I'm asking for help! There were three entries for one of the network adapters. I removed two of them (all three were identical). And that pesky OTHER was there with a yellow ? and the PCI ethernet Controller was there again with a yellow ?. I removed that one again too then rebooted. "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... two identical entries! -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Donna" wrote in message ... I'm not sure how to identify the duplicates. Network adapters has a lot of entires. Didnt see the PCI Ethernet Controller under any of the categories.. How would I identify a dup "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... Donna It's likely that you have multiple installs of some drivers - try this and see what you can see... Reboot to Safe Mode Open Device Manager Look for duplicate entries for affected hardware Remove ALL instances of such duplicates (leave entries in the System branch alone for the moment) reboot to Normal Mode - Windows will reinstall required drivers. See if that corrects your errors. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Donna" wrote in message ... Strangest thing happened. When I booted up got the Add new hardware wizard. Said PCI Ethernet Controller. I clicked next for let windows do the automatic search for it, and it came back and said it could not find it. Then I tried to do the advanced... only the A: drive showed up as a drive to select to browse. I then went to system device mgr, saw Other Devices with yellow question mark, clicked on it and saw the PCI Ethernet controller with yellow question mark too. I then clicked on refresh, and it disappeared. Also, I couldnt connect to the internet. I then did a winipcfg release all/renew all, and rebooted. This time the wizard did not show, and the Other devices does not show anymore. Internet access is now working too. What just happened here? anything I should do? |
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PCI Ethernet Controller - add new hardware wizard
Well, had a bit of a panic there.
Deleted the entry, and then Windows couldnt find it to install it, and my internet connection was dead in the water. It asked me to insert the Windows ME disk and I tried several that came with the computer. (came preinstalled by Dell, so It wasnt I dont have the actual WIndows ME disk. Have one for reinstallation, have a couple for the drivers. anyway, I still am not really sure how, because I did not see a message that it was successfully installed, but I rebooted several times (when all else fails reboot!) and now the driver seems to be installed ok. says the device is working properly, and I did a search on the file it could not find, and sure enough, there is is c\windows\system32\drivers\mxnic.sys so... all done or ? "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... Donna - I said to delete ALL instances!! There's a reason for that, so now finish the job, by rebooting to Safe Mode again, and removing the NIC completely. This give Windows the chance to find the NIC again, and reinstall the drivers properly - chances are that you currently have two entries for it if you look again in Safe Mode (and even if only one, how do you know it's not the *wrong* one??) -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Donna" wrote in message ... well, boy do I feel foolish.... oh well. Thats why you're the expert and I'm asking for help! There were three entries for one of the network adapters. I removed two of them (all three were identical). And that pesky OTHER was there with a yellow ? and the PCI ethernet Controller was there again with a yellow ?. I removed that one again too then rebooted. "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... two identical entries! -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Donna" wrote in message ... I'm not sure how to identify the duplicates. Network adapters has a lot of entires. Didnt see the PCI Ethernet Controller under any of the categories.. How would I identify a dup "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... Donna It's likely that you have multiple installs of some drivers - try this and see what you can see... Reboot to Safe Mode Open Device Manager Look for duplicate entries for affected hardware Remove ALL instances of such duplicates (leave entries in the System branch alone for the moment) reboot to Normal Mode - Windows will reinstall required drivers. See if that corrects your errors. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Donna" wrote in message ... Strangest thing happened. When I booted up got the Add new hardware wizard. Said PCI Ethernet Controller. I clicked next for let windows do the automatic search for it, and it came back and said it could not find it. Then I tried to do the advanced... only the A: drive showed up as a drive to select to browse. I then went to system device mgr, saw Other Devices with yellow question mark, clicked on it and saw the PCI Ethernet controller with yellow question mark too. I then clicked on refresh, and it disappeared. Also, I couldnt connect to the internet. I then did a winipcfg release all/renew all, and rebooted. This time the wizard did not show, and the Other devices does not show anymore. Internet access is now working too. What just happened here? anything I should do? |
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Nope - that should do it - assuming everything's working OK?
-- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Donna" wrote in message ... Well, had a bit of a panic there. Deleted the entry, and then Windows couldnt find it to install it, and my internet connection was dead in the water. It asked me to insert the Windows ME disk and I tried several that came with the computer. (came preinstalled by Dell, so It wasnt I dont have the actual WIndows ME disk. Have one for reinstallation, have a couple for the drivers. anyway, I still am not really sure how, because I did not see a message that it was successfully installed, but I rebooted several times (when all else fails reboot!) and now the driver seems to be installed ok. says the device is working properly, and I did a search on the file it could not find, and sure enough, there is is c\windows\system32\drivers\mxnic.sys so... all done or ? "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... Donna - I said to delete ALL instances!! There's a reason for that, so now finish the job, by rebooting to Safe Mode again, and removing the NIC completely. This give Windows the chance to find the NIC again, and reinstall the drivers properly - chances are that you currently have two entries for it if you look again in Safe Mode (and even if only one, how do you know it's not the *wrong* one??) -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Donna" wrote in message ... well, boy do I feel foolish.... oh well. Thats why you're the expert and I'm asking for help! There were three entries for one of the network adapters. I removed two of them (all three were identical). And that pesky OTHER was there with a yellow ? and the PCI ethernet Controller was there again with a yellow ?. I removed that one again too then rebooted. "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... two identical entries! -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Donna" wrote in message ... I'm not sure how to identify the duplicates. Network adapters has a lot of entires. Didnt see the PCI Ethernet Controller under any of the categories.. How would I identify a dup "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... Donna It's likely that you have multiple installs of some drivers - try this and see what you can see... Reboot to Safe Mode Open Device Manager Look for duplicate entries for affected hardware Remove ALL instances of such duplicates (leave entries in the System branch alone for the moment) reboot to Normal Mode - Windows will reinstall required drivers. See if that corrects your errors. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Donna" wrote in message ... Strangest thing happened. When I booted up got the Add new hardware wizard. Said PCI Ethernet Controller. I clicked next for let windows do the automatic search for it, and it came back and said it could not find it. Then I tried to do the advanced... only the A: drive showed up as a drive to select to browse. I then went to system device mgr, saw Other Devices with yellow question mark, clicked on it and saw the PCI Ethernet controller with yellow question mark too. I then clicked on refresh, and it disappeared. Also, I couldnt connect to the internet. I then did a winipcfg release all/renew all, and rebooted. This time the wizard did not show, and the Other devices does not show anymore. Internet access is now working too. What just happened here? anything I should do? |
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so far so good
thanks for your help (once again)! "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... Nope - that should do it - assuming everything's working OK? -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Donna" wrote in message ... Well, had a bit of a panic there. Deleted the entry, and then Windows couldnt find it to install it, and my internet connection was dead in the water. It asked me to insert the Windows ME disk and I tried several that came with the computer. (came preinstalled by Dell, so It wasnt I dont have the actual WIndows ME disk. Have one for reinstallation, have a couple for the drivers. anyway, I still am not really sure how, because I did not see a message that it was successfully installed, but I rebooted several times (when all else fails reboot!) and now the driver seems to be installed ok. says the device is working properly, and I did a search on the file it could not find, and sure enough, there is is c\windows\system32\drivers\mxnic.sys so... all done or ? "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... Donna - I said to delete ALL instances!! There's a reason for that, so now finish the job, by rebooting to Safe Mode again, and removing the NIC completely. This give Windows the chance to find the NIC again, and reinstall the drivers properly - chances are that you currently have two entries for it if you look again in Safe Mode (and even if only one, how do you know it's not the *wrong* one??) -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Donna" wrote in message ... well, boy do I feel foolish.... oh well. Thats why you're the expert and I'm asking for help! There were three entries for one of the network adapters. I removed two of them (all three were identical). And that pesky OTHER was there with a yellow ? and the PCI ethernet Controller was there again with a yellow ?. I removed that one again too then rebooted. "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... two identical entries! -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Donna" wrote in message ... I'm not sure how to identify the duplicates. Network adapters has a lot of entires. Didnt see the PCI Ethernet Controller under any of the categories.. How would I identify a dup "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... Donna It's likely that you have multiple installs of some drivers - try this and see what you can see... Reboot to Safe Mode Open Device Manager Look for duplicate entries for affected hardware Remove ALL instances of such duplicates (leave entries in the System branch alone for the moment) reboot to Normal Mode - Windows will reinstall required drivers. See if that corrects your errors. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Donna" wrote in message ... Strangest thing happened. When I booted up got the Add new hardware wizard. Said PCI Ethernet Controller. I clicked next for let windows do the automatic search for it, and it came back and said it could not find it. Then I tried to do the advanced... only the A: drive showed up as a drive to select to browse. I then went to system device mgr, saw Other Devices with yellow question mark, clicked on it and saw the PCI Ethernet controller with yellow question mark too. I then clicked on refresh, and it disappeared. Also, I couldnt connect to the internet. I then did a winipcfg release all/renew all, and rebooted. This time the wizard did not show, and the Other devices does not show anymore. Internet access is now working too. What just happened here? anything I should do? |
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