phantom nic installation

[greyowl71]

I just finished reinstalling a Win 98 system. Prior to formatting I put in a new d-link nic. The nic came from SBC/Yahoo. As the OS install finished the PnP picked up the nic and installed it. In the device mgr it showed an Intel 8255... installed and working properly. On a subsequent reboot the hardware wizard detected a nic and installed it as an "other device". If removed the wizard would continue to pop-up. I removed the Intel 8255 and the other device then ran the SBC/Yahoo installation program, but it still came up as the Intel nic. Manual installation from the CD is not possible according to SBC phone tech. So then I phyically removed the nic from the computer, but the hardware wizard still tries to install a part that is not even in the computer.

I hope this is clear. I have never seen a system try to install something that doesn't exist.

Thanks,

 

[ITschoolGuy]

The "other device" you refer to could actually be motherboard related (as opposed to being related to the NIC). SInce you just did a clean re-install of your O/S, you should probably obtain and install the most recent drivers for your particular motherboard chipset. Then it's very likely that the "other device" will be detected as what it really is...PCI Bridge or something like that probably.

Chris