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by richard.south

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After installing a new motherboard (FIC VC11), during boot it discovers hardware and identifies it as PCI Bus Management and wants to load a driver.

I put the manafactures CD into the CDROM and it can not find it. Same results with the Windows 98 CD.

Who provides this driver and any ideas on why it cant find it on the OEM CD?

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by thechas

I would first try canceling the driver wizzard.

After Windows settles down to a normal boot, insert the FIC cd and autorun, or run setup from the cd root directory.

The drivers originate with the chipset (not the cpu) mfgr.
Typically, this isIntel, AMD, VIA, SiS
The documentation with the board should state who's chipset is on the board.

If you have trouble with the CD, you can download the driver files directly from FIC.

You should install the chipset drivers before installing other device drivers.

by thechas

Almost forgot:
As to why you can't find the driver on the CD.
Windows is looking for a .inf file.
The file is either burried in a folder on the CD, or encrypted in a install directory.

If you browse many install folders, you will see numerous files with missing characters in both file names and extensions.

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