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wb48
03-18-2004, 11:11 AM
Running a laptop: Operating System is Win98se. When I formatted and reinstalled the OS and associated drivers, have been left with one request for driver coming up at each reboot. This is New Hardware found PCI CARD.....have tried to drag the driver off of the Win98se disk but, for some strange reason, its not picking it up and I am left with Device Manager highlighting a yellow quest mark against OTHER DEVICES QUESTION MARK..... running an Advent with the following specs;
CPU Pentium III 1.0GHz
Motherboard NB Mobo (133 MHz Front Side Bus)
Memory 512 MB SODIMM (Max. 512MB)
Hard Drive 20GB (removable)
CD Drive Torisan DVD Rom DRD-U824 (Internal)
Floppy Drive 1.44mb 3.5" Drive (Internal)
Screen 14.1" TFT (Native Res.1024x768)
Video Card SiS 630 8Mb Shared
Sound Card SiS 7018
Speaker Stereo Internal
PCMCIA Slots 2 x Type I/II, 1 x Type III
LAN SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet
Modem Smart Link 56k HAMR56-V2.84 (Download Drivers)
Battery Info Li-ion
IEEE 1394 No
IR Port 1 x IR port
Ports
Serial Number 1234567891-1234C

Now, I know that PCI relates to Peripheral Component Interconnect but what exactly does my little box need by way of a driver for it ?? I cannot seem to pull down the driver off of the WIN 98SE CD Rom inserted to the D: drive...help !! regards Will :confused:

DonJ
03-18-2004, 01:26 PM
Are all of your PCI cards loaded up as expected...such as your modem, Eternet card, sound card, video card, etc.? If they all look fine in Device Manager, I would try booting into Safe Mode, Remove the offending Other Devices with the question mark...reboot and let Windows try again. If it very possible that it will clean itself up by itself.

Just a suggestion...Good Luck!

wb48
03-18-2004, 03:19 PM
Are all of your PCI cards loaded up as expected...such as your modem, Eternet card, sound card, video card, etc.? If they all look fine in Device Manager, I would try booting into Safe Mode, Remove the offending Other Devices with the question mark...reboot and let Windows try again. If it very possible that it will clean itself up by itself.

Just a suggestion...Good Luck!

DJ.....tks for getting back to me..........well, it looks as though it was my internal modem card that was up the shoot !............I did exactly what you suggested but that little yellar quesy mark was still comin up, however, having done a hunt around one of the sites advertising PCI drivers for modem cards, I found this driver: SLA56-V3.60 and its cleared the problem....Yeeeehaaaa !!
Don......thanks mate and kind regards awe ra way frae Glasgae (Glasgow) Scotland