[WiKDMoNKY]

I had the same 2 base devices in my device manager, then I installed the touchpad driver for XP from Dell's site and they went away. The touchpad installer would not work, because it was for XP, so I went to the device manager and updated the driver for the touchpad by browsing to he extracted touchpad driver. From there it updated and installed the touchpad management software and the 2 base devices went away.

Hope this helps...

[JTN]

I already have the synaptic touchpad driver installed from dell's site. It drove me bats not having the side slide function from the default Vista driver.

For the life of me I have no clue what these two items are. I've installed just about every driver I can think of and every piece of equipment on my mini is operational. Touchpad works, graphics and sound work, SD card reader works (even with the cute little card icon), Wifi and network card work.

I have heard some rumblings that these two items are perhaps the special dell keyboard controls for turning on and off the wifi and for checking the battery... but I'm not sure which Vista compatible driver or service handles that. I've been sort of cherry-picking the Mini 12 Vista drivers from dell and I'm not sure which one might be this one, as it is the only thing left that I know "doesn't work how it should".

[somms]

Originally Posted by JTN

I already have the synaptic touchpad driver installed from dell's site. It drove me bats not having the side slide function from the default Vista driver.

For the life of me I have no clue what these two items are. I've installed just about every driver I can think of and every piece of equipment on my mini is operational. Touchpad works, graphics and sound work, SD card reader works (even with the cute little card icon), Wifi and network card work.

I have heard some rumblings that these two items are perhaps the special dell keyboard controls for turning on and off the wifi and for checking the battery... but I'm not sure which Vista compatible driver or service handles that. I've been sort of cherry-picking the Mini 12 Vista drivers from dell and I'm not sure which one might be this one, as it is the only thing left that I know "doesn't work how it should".

http://support.us.dell.com/support/down ... eid=264714

Compal OEM driver linked above will probably fix at least one of your unrecognized devices. It worked for me under Vista on the Mini. Without a hardware ID from the unknown device details tab under device manager, I would just be guessing at what the second unknown device may be on your system...

[student.driver]

If you don't install the wireless/bluetooth switching app, then you will get an unknown device. Also, the JMicron reader should have 3 devices:

SD and MMC reader
SD Reader
MMC Reader

If you're missing one, that might also come up as an unknown device.

The bummer is that if you don't install the wireless switcher, you may not be able to completely disable the Bluetooth module for software updates without having to reboot and disable it in the BIOS.

[JTN]

This is downright strange.

Over the holiday weekend I blitzed Vista off of my mini and completely reinstalled it using the same Vlite disk I made. I then installed the dell drivers from before. Now the two "Base System Devices" are gone and everything shows green. Say whaaaaaaaat? I don't know how but either a driver didn't "take" properly before or I somehow missed a step previously because everything is working again with zero "missing" components this time. The windows experience rating even works right out of the gate now without needing to be poked into functioning.

However I do notice that I now have less free space on my 32gb ssd than I had before. Before I had roughly 20gb free out of the est. 29 gig formatted size. This time around I have 17.5gb free. Nothing changed... I used the same install disk, same drivers, same everything. I even reinstalled chrome and AVG like last time. Heck, last time I even had Steam and Ultimate Doom installed and it still showed more ssd space free than this time.

[jej.514]

JTN, is hibernate or page file enabled this time that wasn't last time?

Otherwise, glad the devices were found. Now just need to find that extra space!

Jeff

[JTN]

I disabled hibernate, turned off the page file, turned off indexing. I did everything the same as I did last time (to my knowledge). So unless Vista somehow kept the hibernate and page file files on hand this time but not last time for some reason... I should probably look for those files and delete them just to be sure. Now that I do the math a 2gb hibernate file and a page file would be the difference between 17.5 and 20gb. Just so I don't run in circles, I'm sure some of the smarter people here know the names and locations of the hibernate and page file files in the directory structure?

[jej.514]

I'm pretty sure the page file is just on/in C:. Make sure you show hidden files (perhaps even tell it show system files too). You're looking for the file that is about 2GB's. I don't remember it being hard to find in the past.

Jeff

[LordRasta]

This is what fixed it for me.

http://support.dell.com/support/down...&fileid=277276

[tonygoodchild]

I found that these two were the JMicron devices. Windows had installed support for the basic SD card using their own drivers, but I took the drivers from the Windows XP package and used those for the two Base System Devices and they were recognised and installed without problems.