I have an ASUS CUSL2-C motherboard with an 866MHz PIII chip and 512MB
RAM.  I have an older NVIDIA GeForce2 AGP video card.  The only PCI
cards I have are an Intel Pro 100/S NIC and a SEK'D Prodif Plus
digital sound card.  I am running Windows 2000.

This all used to work great...I've used this computer mainly for
digital audio applications for well over a year.  At some point...I
truly don't know when this happened or what I could have done that
would have caused it, rebooting the computer discovers and unknown PCI
device, and this causes my sound card to stop working.  Since then,
here is what I have tried:

1. Removed cards...tried combinations of having one and not the other,
and removed them both.  Even with no PCI cards at all, it still boots
up and sees the unknown PCI device.  I've also juggled cards around to
different slots.

2. I've run the Windows updater and updated everything that Microsoft
has to offer.  I've updated the device drivers for the NIC, the sound
card, the and the video card.

3. I've completely reinstalled Windows from scratch, run Windows
update, and installed the latest drivers for everything.  No change at
all.  Still sees the unknown PCI device, and this causes my sound card
to not work.

Device manager says that the NIC and sound card are on PCI bus 2, and
the unknown device is on PCI bus 0.  As far as I know, this
motherboard has no integrated video, sound, or network.  It has USB,
and that's all.  I've dug through the BIOS, but can't find anything
that looks related.

Any help with this would be much appreciated.

---

Request for Question Clarification by hibiscus-ga on 02 Nov 2003 13:48 PST

Hi Steve19, 

Have you tried installing the Intel 815 chipset drivers from ASUS?

Also, while I'm happy to try to help you, for the amount of money
you're offering for this question might you be better off looking at a
new motherboard and doing an upgrade?

Hibiscus

---

Clarification of Question by steve19-ga on 02 Nov 2003 14:28 PST

THAT WORKED!!!!  I downloaded the Intel 815 drivers, and now
everything works great again!  THANK YOU!!!!

I completely don't understand why this was the problem, though...I
thought the 815 chipset was Intel's integrated audio and video.  This
motherboard doesn't have any integrated audio or video (or at least
there are no VGA or audio jacks).  And why did this work for so long
before?  I know I've never installed these drivers before.

But anyway, you just made my day!  Thanks again.