Shoutbox

Well, whenever I start-up my computer, it keeps popping up that new hardware was detected, I try and install it, but it won't install, then it pops up again... Does anybody know how to stop this from happening?!

It's really really annoying, it isn't adware/spyware before any of you say it btw

Do you no what hardware its detected? (like the name).  You could try and look under device manger to see if any hardware says "No drivers installed".

u can disable the Hardware by looking in Device manager, , what have you recently installed/uninstalled

sounds like a cdrom drive not installing properly

this happens when you have improperly uninstalled and then installed new drivers for the IDE bus master

this causes an infinite loop installation as the cdrom drives reinstall themselves depending on which copy of the bus is installed first

this is also when you don't have the drivers installed or the files required to finish the install

to make this continuous finding and installing of new hardware stop

you need to find the hardware which is being detected and install the drivers necessary

typical drivers that do this are

Video IE Nvidia/ATI
Chipset SIS/VIA/NFORCE/INTEL
Sound Creative/Hercules/soundstorm/via/Realtek
Network D-link/Netcom/Realtek
many modems

and can also be devices connected via usb and ps2 controller ports

Look in Device Manager (right click My Computer, Hardware tab, Device Manager) for the "unkown" devices category which will list any hardware without drivers.

You can identify by looking at it which type of piece of hardware it is and then if you go in to it (right click, Properties) you can find out the vendor and device id which you can then google to find the company and product names - then you can find the drivers.

doesn't always work like that unfortunately chris

some devices don't actually get detected properly by windows and even if in the unknown devices list are hard to work out what they are

i would suggest using Everest Home to take a look at the Device list within it as it can actually see what the windows device list can't

either that or reinstalling all your drivers one by one, (with the latest sets available or course) and then seeing if you just didn't forget to install your network drivers or your sound cards game controller port

It's one of the ports... I'm going to do what Chris says, and if it works...  then thanks .

if its one of the ports its most likely either game controller or usb/firewire as lpt printer ports have drivers built into windows along with com and mouse ports

some usb ports need drivers installed

what kind of chipset do you use?
Via
Sis
Nforce
Intel

No, it's fixed now, I didn't want anything installed, nothing was uninstalled, it was just that a port was detected that I didn't use... and the whole "Device Manager" thing worked fine for me .

excellent

some times it doesn't thats all

for example

when i installed my uncles tv tuner it came up as a unknown device till i actually installed the drivers