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Thread ID: 17511	2002-04-06 06:40:00	PCI Multimedia Device? What is it?	Guest (0)	Press F1

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42207	2002-04-06 06:40:00	Hi there - I hope someone can offer a suggestion here... I connected a second hard drive to see whether it was operating (out of a power surged PC). Anyway - no luck with the hard drive. So I unplugged it, and re-booted. The PC says now that windows has found new hardware and is looking for a driver. It says that it's found a PCI Multimedia Device. I didn't load a driver (didn't know exactly what the device was) and headed to the System/Devices area in control panel, which has a yellow question mark next to 'Other Devices' - PCI Multimedia Device. My soundcard and graphics card all operate correctly and are listed. I disabled the mystery item and there seem to be no ill effects, but I am stumped where it came from. I didn't add any new cards, or even remove and replace any existing cards when I was mucking about with the hard drive. Help! J.	Guest (0)
42208	2002-04-06 07:31:00	This term is usually associated with sound cards in which the drivers weren't found for it. Maybe you've got onboard sound and a sound card??? I am uncertain why Windows would detect it unless it didn't install the sound card itself and was manually installed can sometimes confuse windows.	Guest (0)
42209	2002-04-06 09:32:00	Kame mate - you beauty!! I went into the Bios and the onboard audio had been set to enabled, for some reason. I use a pci sound card and the onboard sound was disabled. Anyway - I disabled it again and viola! No conflicts in device manager. Cheers a happy J.	Guest (0)
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