MM has good advice. Do it first. After that, if it still shows up,
examine it in Device Manager (D-Clk for Properties) to see what drivers
it may be using. Also, carefully scroll through the voluminous
"C:\Windows\Inf" folder, to see whether it has an .inf you can
DEFINITIVELY identify to belong to the unwanted sound device. Open the
..inf in Notepad for examination. Perhaps post it, if not prohibitively
large. (NOTE: it won't be "UNKNOWN.INF". Leave that one alone.) Likely,
it will bear the name of the device you wish to eliminate.

Search your Registry for a mention of that .inf, by it's name. Search
also for a mention of each driver you determine to belong ONLY to that
unwanted card. Also, the .inf may hold other items to search for. Report
what you have discovered.

Note, Registry searches will be slow, unless you have a third party tool
for it...

http://www.pcmag.com/
PCMag's "Registry Detective" (take "RegEdit+ too) is better than a naked
RegEdit search, because it will only find an item once, if there is a
"mirror" elsewhere. Also, it will find items in binary fields, which
RegEdit does not. Finally, it finds ALL matches in 10 seconds & puts
them ALL to the screen. There is a Details button for further
examination of the Key. The search criteria can be adjusted and narrowed
in various ways. There is a button to click that will get one into
RegEdit+ (or RegEdit) open to that Key. I only wish there were an easy
way to copy/post the Keys that were found in the search.


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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"brad" wrote in message
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| I was trying to install a pci sound card but never could
| get it to work, probably had the wrong drivers. Since then
| I have installed a different sound card and I have gotten
| it to work properly. The sound card isn't my problem
| anymore.
|
| My problem is that Windows still recognizes a PCI
| Multimedia sound card in device manager. Every card that I
| have installed is accounted for. The only cards installed
| are video, networking, and sound/modem but Windows also
| recognizes an unknown sound card that is not even
| connected.
|
| I have removed the unknown device by going to device
| manager and then clicking on the card and clicking remove.
| However, when I reboot my computer Windows recognizes the
| card and prompts me to install the drivers for it. After I
| click cancel, the device is listed again under device
| manager.
|
| This problem does not hinder my computer or cause any
| problems with me using the computer it is just an
| annoyance that I would like to solve.
|
| Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.