Hey all, I've just installed Windows 7, and I'm having some trouble with something.
For some reason Windows 7 can only intermittently see my SD card slot, There is a unknown device in the device manager which I can't identify, and lastly, something is intermittently preventing Windows from logging off when I shut down.
Does anyone know what's up with these things? What information should I send you to help figure it out?
Thanks a lot!
Hey Zen
Could you go into dev mgr and right click the unknown device. there are a series of a bunch of numbers that can be used to id the device. IM sure Antman would know which.
Re: the shutdown. It might be related. If win 7 is waiting for a device to be safely removed and it never gets that signal it cant shut down.
Ken
You rang?
Actually, I look at the PCI bus number first. 0 means on the mobo, else means a card. If 0, what's missing?
Then, I grab the digit strings and Google.
I looked at the details found under Details --> Hardware Ids, it said ACPI/HPQ0004. I googled it a bit and found it to be related to the touchpad drivers (I'm on a HP laptop), and the HP Mobile Data protection system.
They haven't released any drivers for Windows 7 yet, so I'll just have to suffer with that for the time being.
Anyways, more information about the shutdown error. At times, a window will pop up at shutdown saying that the explorer.exe cannot be stopped and asking me to force a shutdown, which will result in the inability to complete the logoff.
Any ideas on the SD card slot problem?
Use the Vista driver that you can find. There may be a connection between this driver and your shutdown issue. Notice the ACPI portion.
TheSD card may or may not be related to the driver. Win 7 has the option to hide empty drives. To your knowledge, does this condition apply?
I went onto the HP Windows 7 Forum and poked around a bit and found the correct driver to fix the unknown driver issue. I'll test eventually to see if it affects shutdown.
I didn't know that Windows 7 hid empty drives, that may be the problem. The only issue I have with that is I dedicated the drive to ReadyBoost, and it's still not showing up, so if it hides ReadyBoost drives then I doubt it's an issue, otherwise.
I guess this is important to tell you all. I thought I'd fixed the problem, but I guess I didn't.
Anyways the problem is, upon resuming from hibernation (closing the laptop lid), Windows blue screens on me.
What's up with that?
To test whither or not it does hid empty drives, I threw some pictures onto the SD card.
Nope, the drive doesn't show up.
Though it does show up intermittently (usually if I shutdown without the card in, and then put it in after starting up).
Any thoughts on the blue screen?
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