Possibly a gameport controller.
Cari
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"Ken_B" <@> wrote in message news:103tbdlddp9m829@corp.supernews.com...
> I've just acquired a DTK PRM-95V4 m-board, which has a VIA chipset.
> Nothing
> is connected to the board except a hard drive, a cd-rom drive, a video
> card, and a keyboard and mouse.
>
> Yet Win98_SE keeps looking for a driver for a "PCI communications device".
> The only thing I can think of which fits that description is a modem. But
> there is no modem.
>
> Sound is built in, and I think all the sound drivers are installed OK.
>
> I have tried every driver on the install CD and Windows can't find one it
> will accept.
>
> This same drive and OS installation has been used on a couple of other
> m-boards with different configurations (but still no PCI modem, just a USB
> cable modem). Is there any way drivers previously installed could cause
> this?
>
> Thanks. Ken
>
>
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