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OT - Broadcom Network card

This bloody card is going to cut from the motherboard of this laptop soon :(

Its a broadcom Netxtreme gigabit one in a Dell D820 laptop.

It will not install any drivers - Comes up with access denied.

It will not delete - This device is required to boot up the computer. Ive hacked the registry to get rid of it, as soon as you boot again its there with the same issue.

It will not go in safe mode - same messages.

It have disabled it in the BIOS and added devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices to the environment variables. Still will not go.

How the hell can windows think that is is relying on a device for startup, when it knows its not there.

Bastard thing. Its not the card - it works fine in Ubuntu :(

Reply to
Mark Solesbury
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I assume that you are using XP; have you tried logging on using the Administrator account?

Jeff

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Jeff

Yes. That is my account :)

Im gonna rebuild this from scratch i think......... I really despise windows sometimes.

Reply to
Mark Solesbury

When logged in as administrator?

That's windows for you. Instead of just storing information in one single place it scatters things all over the shop, some hidden. If you don't get them all it still "knows" and will "helpfully" refill the other places from that.

Reply to
Dave Liquorice

Have you tried the account actually called Administrator, not just your account with admin privileges.

Jeff

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Jeff

yes. That is my account. Im logged on as Administrator...

Reply to
Mark Solesbury

Reinstalling it will definately fix it, but i think the key thing you need to work out if you dont want to do this is the access denied message. Sounds like perhaps bt has got half way through installing it and cant and decided it needs to finish even if it hasnt got the card anymore (disabled in bios)

Have you also tried letting it try to install it, fail and then just leave the card as a disabled/broken device. Once it has searched for the driver and cant find it there is a tick box to tell it not to try again... or is it not getting this far? You do know that there is a 'view->show hidden devices' option in device manager too which may show it? (or you can clean out the failed attempts at it and try and let it do it again).

Exactly what is it denying you access too? Is it a certain file? I've seen machines where the file permissions have got buggered up and stopped even administrator from doing some stuff (give the ownership to someone else for example).

On 2k there used to be a script/instructions on the ms kb site that would restore all the permissions on the windows files back to the freshly intalled defaults - which was quite useful

Reply to
Tom Woods

So am I on my new Laptop running Vista but it's just refused to allow me to update the BIOS saying contact the Administrator !!!!

Reply to
Bob Hobden

On or around Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:08:33 -0000, "Bob Hobden" enlightened us thusly:

ur, yuk.

I'd rather have XP pro x64, which, co-incidentally, is what's on this machine. Mind, for all the 64-bit software you can get, I might as well have stuck with the 32-bit one.

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Austin Shackles

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