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Old 05-14-2008, 02:46 PM
PhilTheGap
 
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Re: Problem with the pci.sys driver on Vista

"Gary G. Little" <gary.g.little@seagate.com> a écrit dans le message de
news:482ae0e6$0$5913$88260bb3@news.teranews.com...
> "Curious'r and curios'r" said Alice ...
>
> I'd like to know HOW you deactivated it.

devmgmt.msc / System drivers/Bridge PCI.../right clic/deactivate ... done !

> The PCI.SYS driver is the bus driver for the PCI bus, and without out it,
> you basically don't have a PCI bus. Methinks you THINK you deactivated it,
> but Windows, in it's infinte wisdom, and because PCI.SYS falls in the
> catagory of a protected file under System File Protection, most likely
> restored any registry changes you made and restored the proper version of
> the file to the drivers directory.

You may be right. However, suddenly my screen turned black then restarted in
low resolution. The ATI Radeon driver disappeared and was replaced with a
"vgasave" driver. Which may me think that something really happened there !

> Now ... when it did that, it is very possible in enumerating the PCI bus
> again it reordered things such that a recalcitrant child connected to the
> PCI bus in a more optimum place in relation to the other PCI devices. But
> that driver still has issues since now your system is reportedly unstable.

Yes certainly... That's why I need help.

> That file is updated via Windows Update when there is an update for it.

I would have liked that your reply ends with something really new.

Best regards

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