Erroe code: 12 in decice manager for PCI-NIC

I have a Pentium 4 box (ASUS p4r800-vw) which was recently upgraded to Windows 7 (a clean install) and boosted the total RAM (PC3200) to 1.25GB from 512MB. Upon finishing installation I noticed in the device manager decices that had errors (see attachment). The only additional card installed on this machine is a PCI-network card. If I take the card out and go into device manager, it obviously does not show up in the list as well as no errors. So it's defenetly something with the card.

A PCI card is used for networking because the on-board LAN port is defective. I've tried several PCI cards and all give the same issue. It's almost like the device manager is assigning the same I/O number to this device to something already given. Though I don't know for sure.

 

I think this relates to your chipset drivers. Asus drivers are here. Are you sure it is a p4r800-vw and not a p4r800-vm? I could not find anything on the Asus site for a vw. You may also have to disable on-board LAN in BIOS if you are using a LAN card.

http://www.pcidatabase.com/vendor_details.php?id=240

PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5838:

Chip Number: RS300M
Chip Description: ATI Radeon 9000/9100 IGP Chipset - AGP Controller
Notes: PCI/PCI Bridge

PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4342

Chip Number: SB200
Chip Description: PCI-PCI Bridge

 

you are right on the motherboard. sorry.

as you can see from the thread topic and also within the thread my spelling was a bit off this morning.

I'll give it a shot and let you know; thanks.

 

So I ended up buying a USB/Ethernet adapter for this machine and discarded the PCI NIC cards and everything is good to go. My guess is that this particular machine's motherboard (for being so old) just didn't like windows 7, for no matter what device I installed in the PCI port(s) would get the same error.

also, on Asus's website the most up-to-date chipset drivers for this particular motherboard only went up to XP. So That's another thing seeing as XP drivers don't work in Windows 7.

 

You may have had better luck by going to the NIC card's chipset maker's site (like RealTek, broadcom, etc) and finding Vista/Win7 drivers for the particular chip that card uses. I've had to do that when installing Win7 on older systems and I've put Win7 on some old stuff.

Sam

 

That was the first thing I tried; I may have not have posted it. sorry.