Bill wrote:
> Ok, so I may be posting in the wrong forum, but I could not find a Media
> Center specific group.

Maybe in the microsoft windows multimedia newsgroups (they do exist).

> I am running XP Media Center 2005 on a Dell Dimension
> E520, 2.66 GHZ Dual-core Pentium D, 1 GB RAM 2 internal SATA 250 GB/300 GB
> hard drives. GeForce 7300 LE 256 MB vid card (which is strangely shown
> pretty much everywhere in the system as having 512 MB though??) Anyhow, I
> reinstalled Windows some time ago with the CD instead of the factory image
> restore from the hidden partition. No problems, everything installed,
> working properly, and showing properly (except the vid card's memory)
> Quite
> a few months later bought the 300 GB drive to install, and after
> installation I noticed an unknown device in device manager. The hard drive
> is installed and working properly at this point, after some testing etc.
> the
> unknown device is definitely NOT the hard drive. I checked the properties
> of
> the unknown device checked out and searched the hardware strings on the
> details tab, and have come up with it's the Media Center Away Mode driver.
> From what I can tell searching, I can literally find nothing fruitful
> about
> how to fix this problem with the away mode driver. There is no away mode
> tab
> in Power Options either. I don't necessarily need the functionality of
> away
> mode, but I would like to get rid of this annoying entry in my device
> manager without uninstalling or disabling it. Anyone have any ideas or
> suggestions that don't consist of disabling/uninstalling?