Showing strange hardware in device manager

[vanibanez]

I started up my pc this morning and Windows XP asked for drivers for a PCI device. I figured it might be something corrupt from the NF4 chip set drivers so I reinstalled those but still nothing. When I let Windows install from a list of drivers it shows a Compaq Deskpro Thermal Sensor. The weird thing is that I don't have a Compaq. Here's my specs:

DFI Lanparty NF4 Ultra-D
AMD 3800 dual core
3GB samsung ram (2x1gb, 2x512mb)
ATI HD 3650
OCZ Stealth Extreme 600w
samsung Sata 2 hard drive
Western Digital IDE drive

Anyone have an idea as to why this suddenly came up out of the blue? I'm running a virus scan right now to see if there's anything there.

 

[QuietIce]

Are all your board sensors working? Compaq may make one of the sensors used on your board.

It's also possible the battery is getting old and messing with the BIOS/CMOS. Did the message persist even after rebooting?

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

It's also possible the battery is getting old and messing with the BIOS/CMOS.

+1

 

[vanibanez]

Completed reboot, no error. But Compaq thermal sensor does show fine in device manager, strange that it has appeared out of the blue like this.