Showing posts with label acpi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acpi. Show all posts

Saturday, June 09, 2007

Unknown device on ASUS P5B Deluxe

After a fresh Windows XP Pro x64 installation and installing all possible device drivers, I still had an Unknown driverless device left.

Pretty much everything I could get from the device manager was

Driver Instance ID: ACPI\ATK0110\1010110


Windows update did not know anything about this mysterious device, so the only thing I had left to do is google for the device instance ID. Of course, I was not the first one to face this problem and the solution came up fast here and here.

The only thing you have to do is insert the bundled MB driver CD and do nothing else. It turned out that ASUS has an ASUSACPI.exe utility set to autorun. I wouldn't call this solution sleek or elegant in any way, but it works. Most of the time ;)

For everything else, there's google. (Reminds me of a pic where Bart Simpson was writing "I will use google before asking stupid questions" all over a blackboard)