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Re: Problem with the pci.sys driver on Vista
Well dude, like my gramma said "Tain't what you want that makes you fat it's
what you get", but you're welcome all the same.
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The personal opinion of
Gary G. Little
"PhilTheGap" <oriane@noemail.noemail> wrote in message
news:EA688DBB-D816-4C92-8EF2-CD457DC6EEB0@microsoft.com...
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> "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 ...
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>> I'd like to know HOW you deactivated it.
> devmgmt.msc / System drivers/Bridge PCI.../right clic/deactivate ... done
> !
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>> 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 !
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>> 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.
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>> 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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