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    Unkown device appearing in device manager after Windows 8 upgrade

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by anotherusername, Nov 7, 2012.

  1. anotherusername

    anotherusername Notebook Consultant

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    Check this out:


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    After recently upgrading to Windows 8 I didn't notice until today that this one unknown device has failed to install on my system. However, just by looking at device properties I can't figure out what device this is. "Automatically search for drivers" option doesn't work and I am unable to search for drivers manually since I don't know what this is. Can anyone help me in figuring out what this device is?


    Edit: Never mind. I searched this forum a bit and found another thread with the poster asking the same question. I was missing the free fall sensor device drivers. After installing it the problem disappeared.
     
    anotherusername, Nov 7, 2012
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  2. Alienware-L_Porras

    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

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    I'm glad that you got that sorted out. If you need anything else let us know.

    Mods please close! :)
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Nov 7, 2012
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