New hardware found annoyance Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 10:59 am Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Joe (64 messages posted) Never worked with Millennium much since most people had someone, or themselves remove it in place of 98SE or 2000. After my troubles here, I can see why. Anyhow I am working on a friends older P3 machine that has ME installed and she recently got broadband service but no NIC in the machine with which to connect up to the modem so I, having installed numerous types of cards, took it upon myself to install one. The card is made by "Trendnet" and is their TEG-PCITXR lowcost 10/100/1000 NIC. Before this card went in, however, I tried installing a couple cards I have laying around here and neither would install. So I get the trendnet card in and have a few problems along the way but eventually I get it to work. I know this because the machine in question is being used to convey this message. Anyhow, now, on every boot, I get a "New Hardware Found" wizard for both a PCI Networking Device which I cancel, and a PCI Device which I also cancel. Looking in Device Manager, I see no problematic devices with the customary yellow question mark or exclamation point. All devices are installed properly. No other cards have been installed after the trendnet NIC so why is it that I am getting these new hardware wizards each time I boot? I have looked through the registry to see if there was some sort of open process that might be causing this and I have also removed the trendnet card and reinstalled. In both circumstances I still get the wizards. This is bugging me to the point of a backup and format/install of 98SE which I've never had this sort of problem. Any takers? Tech Support Forum's list of wonderful helpers haven't managed a reply yet and I am doubting I'm going to get one here but will be happy to get some suggestions. Also, I've done a complete search of the web to no avail so if you know something or experienced this before and have a fix, let me know. Thanks. ps, sorry for the "novel" approach but I'm a writer in my spare time and don't know how to write short stories, (lol) Responses to this message: re: New hardware found annoyance (C K: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 4:16 pm) forgot a step.. (C K: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 4:23 pm) re: New hardware found annoyance (JimmyK: Monday, June 16, 2008 at 8:58 pm) re: New hardware found annoyance (Alan Masterman: Friday, June 27, 2008 at 8:18 am) All messages in this thread [show all] New hardware found annoyance (Joe: Tue, Jun 10, 2008, 10:59 am) re: New hardware found annoyance (C K: Tue, Jun 10, 2008, 4:16 pm) forgot a step.. (C K: Tue, Jun 10, 2008, 4:23 pm) re: forgot a step.. (Joe: Wed, Jun 11, 2008, 8:34 am) re: New hardware found annoyance (JimmyK: Mon, Jun 16, 2008, 8:58 pm) re: New hardware found annoyance (Alan Masterman: Fri, Jun 27, 2008, 8:18 am) re: New hardware found annoyance (Joe: Fri, Jun 27, 2008, 9:30 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum