Vista and Unknown ACPI device

mrochester

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I've got an Asus A8N-SLI Premium board and Vista HP. An device appears in device manager as Unknown, but when I look at the details about it it does mention ACPI. This device was sometimes also a problem in XP, but it was dead easy to just install the driver available on the Asus website. However, Vista won't have the XP driver for this device. Any idea how to resolve this issue?

Thanks,

Michael.
 
Cybertronic said:
Some people have reported that this problem can be fixed in XP by installing Asus Ai Booster however it didn't fix it for me :(
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You just need to install the ACPI driver from the Asus website in XP. However, this doesn't work in Vista.
 
mrochester said:
I've got an Asus A8N-SLI Premium board and Vista HP. An device appears in device manager as Unknown, but when I look at the details about it it does mention ACPI. This device was sometimes also a problem in XP, but it was dead easy to just install the driver available on the Asus website. However, Vista won't have the XP driver for this device. Any idea how to resolve this issue?

Thanks,

Michael.
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The driver is for the ATK0110 ACPI UTILITY which you will find under System Devices in device manager when the driver is installed.

To install the driver, install Asus Probe II or Asus AI Booster also as far as i know, if you insert your motherboard support CD in to your ROM drive the driver gets installed automatically, i allways install Asus Probe II because you can monitor voltages, temps and so on, Asus AI Booster has problems on some systems so i never install that.

Here is a direct link to a version of ASUS Probe II that i know for shure works with Vista 32bit.

Hope this helps!
 
Indeed it is the ATK0110 ACPI UTILITY device.

You don't need any disc if your connected to the internet. Right click on the unknown device in device manager, update driver, automatically from the internet. Give it about 2 minutes, and your driver will be downloaded and installed for you. Probably a lot quicker than it would be digging out that Mobo Disc from its "safe" resting place.
 
the-void said:
Indeed it is the ATK0110 ACPI UTILITY device.

You don't need any disc if your connected to the internet. Right click on the unknown device in device manager, update driver, automatically from the internet. Give it about 2 minutes, and your driver will be downloaded and installed for you. Probably a lot quicker than it would be digging out that Mobo Disc from its "safe" resting place.
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I've tried updating the driver, and it checks online but reports back that 'Windows could not find driver software for your device'.
 
Then dowload Asus Probe II from the link in my earlier post and install it, when you install it make sure you right click the Setup.exe file and select run as admin, after it is installed you can uninstall it if you want and the driver will not be removed for the ATK0110 ACPI UTILITY.
 
d.chatten said:
Then dowload Asus Probe II from the link in my earlier post and install it, when you install it make sure you right click the Setup.exe file and select run as admin, after it is installed you can uninstall it if you want and the driver will not be removed for the ATK0110 ACPI UTILITY.
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Hi there, that doesn't work either. The Unknown ACPI device is still there after installing PCProbeII as an Admin.
 
If you have UAC enabled then this could be causing the problem, try disabling UAC and re-install Probe, if this solves the problem then re-enable UAC.
 
d.chatten said:
If you have UAC enabled then this could be causing the problem, try disabling UAC and re-install Probe, if this solves the problem then re-enable UAC.
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UAC is already disabled.

BTW, when I installed PC Probe 2, I had to force Vista to install a driver. It obviously wasn't the ACPI driver though.
 
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The only thing left to try that i can think of is to right click the Setup.exe file, click properties, in the properties click the Compatibility tab and set compatibility mode to Windows XP (SP2) then click OK, now right click the same Setup.exe file and select run as admin.
 
d.chatten said:
The only thing left to try that i can think of is to right click the Setup.exe file, click properties, in the properties click the Compatibility tab and set compatibility mode to Windows XP (SP2) then click OK, now right click the same Setup.exe file and select run as admin.
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Thanks, but I'm just going to give up on this ACPI device for now. It seems to be doing no harm without any drivers right now. I might wait for Asus to put out some Vista drivers for my board.
 
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