Try in BIOS, disable onboard modem if there is any.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Jonathan Justman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 3:36 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Imaginary Device Problem


> When my machine booted up a few days ago, it suddenly reported that it had
> found a "new PCI communications device".  If I tell the wizard to ignore
the
> device, it adds an "Unknown Device" to my Device Manager.  If I tell it to
> search for a driver, wherever I tell it to search, it can't find one.  If
I
> try to delete the device, the same thing happens next time I boot.
They're
> supposed to come to put in my ADSL cards soon, and I'm afraid that this
> non-existant device will cause problems, since Device Manager says that
> Windows has assigned some memory space to it.  How do I get rid of it?
> As far as I can see, my real PCI devices (sound card, video card) are
working
> fine.
>

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