New Hardware oddity
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New Hardware oddity
Odd thing happened this morning. When I switched the 'puter on I got a 'you have installed new hardware' flag, which then went off on an Internet search for the relevant drivers (which it didn't find).
Since I hadn't installed anything since I switched off the previous night I thought this was a little odd. (Normal power off, no problems).
I've had a look round various places but can't find anything that seems similar but has anyone heard about anything that would cause this? (wondering about new viruses etc. which I might have come down with)
Since I hadn't installed anything since I switched off the previous night I thought this was a little odd. (Normal power off, no problems).
I've had a look round various places but can't find anything that seems similar but has anyone heard about anything that would cause this? (wondering about new viruses etc. which I might have come down with)
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Not much help, but just to cheer you up
Win XP SP2
The same thing happened to me about 3 weeks ago, and it kindly informed me 'I had a new hard drive' and then 'it was ready to use' - problem is I didn't and my FAT was trashed on the boot drive and the rest is history.
Never did get to the borttom of it, but I now have a new drive (and Mobi and processor) and so far........................
Win XP SP2
The same thing happened to me about 3 weeks ago, and it kindly informed me 'I had a new hard drive' and then 'it was ready to use' - problem is I didn't and my FAT was trashed on the boot drive and the rest is history.
Never did get to the borttom of it, but I now have a new drive (and Mobi and processor) and so far........................
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Thanks, BOAC.
The problem hasn't repeated and everything seems to be working ok - and no sign of any new devices. The message was just 'new hardware' - didn't specify a device and it didn't find a driver - I killed it before it could look too hard. Fingers crossed.
(And don't mention 'trashing FAT' tro MadsMum or she'll have me on another diet.
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The problem hasn't repeated and everything seems to be working ok - and no sign of any new devices. The message was just 'new hardware' - didn't specify a device and it didn't find a driver - I killed it before it could look too hard. Fingers crossed.
(And don't mention 'trashing FAT' tro MadsMum or she'll have me on another diet.
).
Plastic PPRuNer
XP is occasionally prone to incomprehensible glitches like this - the best thing to do is to document them as much as you can and do nothing. Most of the time they go away after a few days.
Just do a full virus scan with an updated definitions file, a run of Adaware or Spybot and a a quick look for a rootkit http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilitie...tRevealer.html
If nothing surfaces, just wait before embarking on your goose-chase.
I've seen more corrupted installations from chasing these inexplicable Windows brainstorms than anything else.
Modern OSes are so Byzantine in their complexity that no-one really understands them - actually, they're almost organic, so wierd things do happen at times.
Just do a full virus scan with an updated definitions file, a run of Adaware or Spybot and a a quick look for a rootkit http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilitie...tRevealer.html
If nothing surfaces, just wait before embarking on your goose-chase.
I've seen more corrupted installations from chasing these inexplicable Windows brainstorms than anything else.
Modern OSes are so Byzantine in their complexity that no-one really understands them - actually, they're almost organic, so wierd things do happen at times.
