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    Device manager G73

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by schockie, Aug 20, 2011.

  1. schockie

    schockie Notebook Evangelist

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    I've searched this forum, but the results were rather...disappointing :eek:
    So here's my thing, i got a yellow "!" for the pci simple communications controller. Anyone got 'n idea for that ?

    I've tried updating them, no results. Tried removing them and click the "detect recently changed devices", no results eighter.
     
  2. Yiddo

    Yiddo Believe, Achieve, Receive

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    Major lazy copy and paste thing going on today.Here is a post I made earlier. Honest. :)

    PCI Simple Communications Controller

    Problem:
    The Found New Hardware Wizard cannot find the driver for the PCI Simple Communications Controller. What is the PCI Simple Communications Controller and where is the driver?

    Solution:
    PCI stands for Peripheal Component Interconnect and is an industry standard bus for attaching peripheal devices to a computer. The PCI Simple Communications Controller is a generic label given by Windows to PCI boards installed in a PC when the drivers for the device are not installed.

    [​IMG]

    You are likely receiving this error because you have not installed the driver for your PCI device. To determine which device you need to install the driver for, you can follow the steps below:

    Right-click on the entry in Device Manager and select Properites
    In the Details tab, there should be an entry such as PCI\VEN_1093&DEV_70B8&…
    This indicates the Vendor and Device ID of your PCI device. In the above example, the VEN would be 1093 and DEV would be 70B8
    You can look up your device online on sites such as PCI Vendor and Device Lists. The Above VEN and DEV values give the following result:
     
  3. nadcicle

    nadcicle Notebook Guru

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    Imma make it easy on you and tell you to use to driver disc and go to the software folder and install the thing under the "MEI" folder.

    If you dont have the disc you can get it from chastity's driver page i believe.

    The rest of the info on that folder goes as follows:

    H:\Software\MEI\Intel\Intel(R)_Management_Engine_Components\XP32_Vista32_Vista64_Win7_32_Win7_64_6.0.0.1179
     
  4. schockie

    schockie Notebook Evangelist

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    Thank you both for your replies. +1 rep

    Edit: Its my intel HM55 chipset :D.
    Got it fixed ;)
     
  5. BladeZero

    BladeZero Notebook Guru

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    I use the Microsoft driver from Windows Update in the Optional Updates section since it seems to have a newer date and you don't have those two Intel Management services automatically running. You can disable those two processes from running however if you want.