Abit se6 - unknown device in win98se

[Dan LaRoche]

Hey everyone!
Got this problem with a new Abit se6 rev2.0 with win98se. In the device manager there is a yellow question mark on an unknown device. I have tried all the inf files in the inf and system folders, the win98se cd, and the abit driver cd. Have followed all instruction in the abit mobo manual to no avail.

I used this mobo (rev1.0) with winme on the last 3 pc's I've made and had no problem! Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Dan

 

[marty]

Do you have an old hard drive on the new motherboard? If so you might want to delete your Intel Video drivers and go to plain VGA. Then install the Video driver from the ABIT CD.

Also, do you have any odd USB devices installed?

I had a hell of time trying to get my SE6 REV 1 to accept the new VK BIOS under Windows ME. I hit my head against the wall for almost a week. I emailed Abit and they claimed there was no problem. To trouble shoot this I dragged out an old hard drive and configured everything with Windows 98 before loading Windows ME. It took me almost forever because of the same error that you mention. I finally unplugged my Visioneer USB scanner and the damn unknow PCI thing went away.

I then got ME and the new BIOS to work on the old hard drive and was still scatching my head about getting the new BIOS to work on the new hard drive.

I tried the newer hard drive without adding the scanner and voila, I had no trouble booting with the VK BIOS. I subsequently had to reinstall the Intel video and finally reattached the scanner without any new issues arising!!

The VK BIOS allows 1.9 volts and I wanted that for stability with my PIII 700 at 933MHz!

 

[Dan LaRoche]

Thanks for the reply Marty,
I'll try reinstalling the video drivers today. The hard drive is a new maxtor 15gig/7200rpm/ata100, and the only usb device is a microsoft optical mouse. The only plug-in card is a no-name pci network card. Though the cdrom is an old 6x (pio2) type, that would disappear from the device manager when I installed the intel ata driver (on the abit cd). Uninstalling the intel driver and going back to the win98se driver corrected the cd problem. The unknown device keeps coming back though!

 

[marty]

I have a Microsoft optical mouse on my USB port and that didn't cause trouble, but if you want to try to double check whether yours is causing trouble (we have different version MB's), you can use that little adapter that MS gives you to temporarily make it a PS/2 mouse.

 

[Scorpion]

I have a revision 1 se6 and I have the same problem. Its just an unkown device. I haven't had any problems so I have just left it alone. But it would be very nice to get rid of it. I was thinking that it could be the built in video card and the board is still detecting it. B ut I have no real idea.

 

[mellem01]

I had the same problem, I disabled the sound card on the mobo and it went away....give it a try

 

[Scorpion]

I checked out the bios and the sound card is already disabled. So the problem remains.

 

[marty]

Did you try to remove a bunch of the devices and let them reinstall?

 

[Scorpion]

I have formated and reinstalled everything twice and it didn't make a differance.

 

[marty]

Your signature says SBLive. Do you have the SB Live on the se6?

I had a problem with the SB Live when I purchased my SE 6. I installed new drivers and that helped. I also had a network card as the only other PCI card with the SB Live.

They now have a way to flash the SB Live cards to update the flash memory too. I did the driver thing back in November and the memory flash more recently.

I did have an unknown PCI device popping up only when I went into standby. I thought this was due to a BIOS setting but it seems to have disappeared as I couldn't reproduce it yesterday. I don't use standby so it wasn't a big deal.

 

[Scorpion]

Yeah I have the SB live on the se6. Anway when I first installed it, the live wouldn't even work and it was making my system very unstable. I installed the newest drivers and I installed the latest liveware. After doing that it worked fine. Though it eventually caused some problems with my g2mx. There is a new driver for it, now but I haven't gotten it yet. Thanks for your input. It would be nice to get rid of the unknown device, but it hasn't caused any problems so its no big deal..