Computer Hope
Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: jocaan on July 24, 2009, 02:10:40 PM
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Under Infrared Devices I have a yellow exclamation mark by "Serial Cable using IrDA Protocol."
This is a HP laptop computer with Windows XP Media Center Edition. I'm hooked up to my wireless home network which just includes my desktop computer and this laptop.
I am trying to partition and format a new Seagate SATA hard drive using a USB hard drive adapter and cannot get the hard drive recoginzed but I think that is another forum question.
When I try to troubleshoot and install a better driver in order to remove the exclamation mark a message indicates there is nothing wrong with this device (what particular device they are mentioning I do not know). The message indicates there is not a better driver. Yet the exclamation mark remains. I do have an external floppy drive I use plugged in through a USB connector sometime but not now. What other infrared device the message is referring I have no idea.
Frank C.
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Re-install your MBoard drivers from the Driver CD that shipped with the machine...
Re-boot.
As to the HDD we need some more info.
And stop relying on Windows for Driver updates...it's futile at best...
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It worked perfectly. Thanks. Re: the other problem I think it was because I did not partition the new hard drive that this laptop would not see it. However the drive did show up in Norton's Partition Manager so I partitioned it and I think it is ok now. It is a Seagate hard drive and although I installed the Seagate software it would not find the drive, or else I was just too tired and did not know how to use the Seagate software when it was installed on the C: drive and I was trying to use it, from the C: drive to partition and format this new hard drive that was attached to the laptop via a USB drive adapter. Thanks again. Frank C.
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You're more than Welcome...stop by anytime.