During my latest snafu,sound card upgrade,Ive had all sorts of problems but I think I have finally got to the root of them all.If I start in safe mode device manager shows 4 devices that dont show up in regular mode.These devices are associated with my old sound card which I thought I unistalled,when I try to delete these items it wont let me,it says they are part of a parent device.How do I say "SCREW YOU" to device manager and do what I want?By the way none of these devices are the "parent",I even reinstalled the old card so I could delete the main mamma thinking that might do it,no such luck,thats how I ended up with 4 devices I cant get rid of instead of the original 2!You guys have helped me out of much deeper holes than this,so dont be shy.
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How do you muscle device manager?
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In these cases the parent will probably be hiding under another catagory. I've found them in 2 or 3 other places at various times. Ed Fair
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Is it by chance ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering?
Go to Start>Run, and type hwinfo /ui. Look over the resulting file for red text. This indicates proble devices.
Go to Start>Run, and type msinfo32 and look over the Hardware section for problems. Click the History radio button to show what changes have been made.
Every time you use the Add Hardware wizard, entries are made in the registry. The keys look like this 0001, 0002, etc. Sometimes they are not removed correctly.
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Go to Start>Run, and type hwinfo /ui. Look over the resulting file for red text. This indicates proble devices.
Go to Start>Run, and type msinfo32 and look over the Hardware section for problems. Click the History radio button to show what changes have been made.
Every time you use the Add Hardware wizard, entries are made in the registry. The keys look like this 0001, 0002, etc. Sometimes they are not removed correctly.
reghakr
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Nothing APPEARS to be hiding under another device name,I used a reg cleaner but only saw references to old programs no hardware,this is not to say there is none,Im not sure what Im looking at.msinfo32 and the other wont work on my computer it just says cant be opened make sure the file bla bla bla bla bla.Can I run those in DOS?PCI irq steering?The old card was not PCI,does that matter?Please keep the tips rollin in,I have to conquer device manager,Im bigger than it is and I know it can be done.
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