Plug and Play BIOS extension
 

Okay...

I was poking around and noticed an exclamation mark next to "Plug and Play BIOS Extension" on the 'system devices' tree in the device manager.

Whew...

I googled and found some folks with the same problem, but nothing telling me what it was, if it was important and how to get rid of it. I'll certainly delve a little deeper later, but I thought I'd run past you guys first.

Here's the info...

AMD XP 2800+
ASRock K7VT4A+ w/ 1 Gig of RAM

I know the little bugger wasn't there 3 weeks ago. I went through everything with a fine tooth comb because I was going to flash the BIOS. The only other addition since then would be a new DVD burner. I can't say for sure when the ! popped up.

I've tried any number of things. I uninstall it and reboot to get XP to fix it by itself and it just reappears. It can't roll back the driver because the PC says it can't find (or it doesn't need) a driver. That's if...you know..it doesn't freak out and freeze up on me. I've been through every setting in the BIOS and everything is exactly how it was before.

It doesn't seem to be hurting anything...it's just kind of annoying like that bit of popcorn stuck in your teeth during a movie.

I've rambled too long. Any help, thoughts, suggestions would be peachy and appreciated.

-guthmund

/no suggestion alert/

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It's like a sore tooth ain't it?

Is the exclamation inside a yellow triangle?

Are the chipset drivers installed properly? Find out what chipset it on the board install the drivers, then update the driver on the Plug and Play Extension and have it try to auto locate the driver.

See if that works.

I _think_ ASROCK uses AMI's BIOS, right? You didn't see a BIOS setting for "PNP OS"? If it's there, and it were off when you installed then later enabled you'd get the yellow exclamation. I'm suspicious of this since you mentioned having been in the BIOS config.

This might be the perfect time to update the BIOS. When in doubt, FORMAT! j/k

It's bugging the snot out of me, to be perfectly honest. :)

....and yes, it is inside a little yellow triangle.

It comes as part of a package from the manuf. website. I downloaded and installed the set about a week before I flashed the BIOS. I'll give it another shot though if you think it'll help.

:lol:

It is indeed AMI's BIOS. You might be on to something though.. When I flashed the BIOS, I had to reboot and 'load the default settings' and I haven't changed any BIOS settings since then. So...maybe I had it turned off and then it was turned back on when I defaulted all the settings... I'll poke around a bit and see what's what.

Like I said, it doesn't seem to be hurting anything... It's just one of those annoying little things I don't really understand, which means I have to dick around with it for my own peace of mind.

Thanks for the suggestions so far, fellows. Now let's see if I can really screw things up, eh? ;)