I am a first-time new builder of a fresh 64-bit Windows 7 Pro machine with an Asus P9X79 WS motherboard. When you click Start, Devices and Printers, under the Devices category is an icon labeled with the name I gave my machine and a “!” in a yellow triangle. When I right click and select Properties then the Hardware tab, the first item listed (with the same “!” in a yellow triangle) is
PCI Simple Communications Controller
Location = PCI bus 0, device 22, function 0
Device Status = “The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28)”
Clicking Properties then Update Driver finds nothing.
Clicking the Details tab and choosing Hardware Ids shows:
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1D3A&SUBSYS_84EF1043&REV_05
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1D3A&SUBSYS_84EF1043
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1D3A&CC_078000
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1D3A&CC_0780
Clicking the Details tab and choosing Physical Device Object Name shows
\Device\NTPNP_PCI0009
Choosing both the Install Date and the First Install Date show the same date and time that is just after I installed and ran some programs with Samsung SSD Magician, such as Over Provisioning, but I don’t know if this has anything to do with the problem as I was also doing other things as this is a new build.
I went to the Intel site and ran their scan and updated Intel 82579V & 82574L based Network Controllers even though they said OEM (and I likely should have gotten them from the Asus site). This apparently caused no harm but it did not correct the problem. (Then I thought I did the wrong thing so I went to the Asus site and tried to download their drivers and couldn’t do it because, it said, I already had newer drivers.)
Someone mentioned on another board to update the Intel Management Engine Interface. I went to the Asus site and found it under Utilities with a date of 7/18/2012. I thought I had the problem solved … but nooooo. After downloading and running I got the message:
“Error This computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software.” (I have the Xeon E5-1620, and 64 GB of ECC.)
Like I said, I’m new at this, and I am now exhausted from all the research and trial and error. How can I precisely identify what needs to be done here?
PCI Simple Communications Controller
Location = PCI bus 0, device 22, function 0
Device Status = “The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28)”
Clicking Properties then Update Driver finds nothing.
Clicking the Details tab and choosing Hardware Ids shows:
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1D3A&SUBSYS_84EF1043&REV_05
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1D3A&SUBSYS_84EF1043
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1D3A&CC_078000
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1D3A&CC_0780
Clicking the Details tab and choosing Physical Device Object Name shows
\Device\NTPNP_PCI0009
Choosing both the Install Date and the First Install Date show the same date and time that is just after I installed and ran some programs with Samsung SSD Magician, such as Over Provisioning, but I don’t know if this has anything to do with the problem as I was also doing other things as this is a new build.
I went to the Intel site and ran their scan and updated Intel 82579V & 82574L based Network Controllers even though they said OEM (and I likely should have gotten them from the Asus site). This apparently caused no harm but it did not correct the problem. (Then I thought I did the wrong thing so I went to the Asus site and tried to download their drivers and couldn’t do it because, it said, I already had newer drivers.)
Someone mentioned on another board to update the Intel Management Engine Interface. I went to the Asus site and found it under Utilities with a date of 7/18/2012. I thought I had the problem solved … but nooooo. After downloading and running I got the message:
“Error This computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software.” (I have the Xeon E5-1620, and 64 GB of ECC.)
Like I said, I’m new at this, and I am now exhausted from all the research and trial and error. How can I precisely identify what needs to be done here?