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Ok, so I may be posting in the wrong forum, but I could not find a Media

Center specific group. I am running XP Media Center 2005 on a Dell Dimension

E520, 2.66 GHZ Dual-core Pentium D, 1 GB RAM 2 internal SATA 250 GB/300 GB

hard drives. GeForce 7300 LE 256 MB vid card (which is strangely shown

pretty much everywhere in the system as having 512 MB though??) Anyhow, I

reinstalled Windows some time ago with the CD instead of the factory image

restore from the hidden partition. No problems, everything installed,

working properly, and showing properly (except the vid card's memory) Quite

a few months later bought the 300 GB drive to install, and after

installation I noticed an unknown device in device manager. The hard drive

is installed and working properly at this point, after some testing etc. the

unknown device is definitely NOT the hard drive. I checked the properties of

the unknown device checked out and searched the hardware strings on the

details tab, and have come up with it's the Media Center Away Mode driver.

From what I can tell searching, I can literally find nothing fruitful about

how to fix this problem with the away mode driver. There is no away mode tab

in Power Options either. I don't necessarily need the functionality of away

mode, but I would like to get rid of this annoying entry in my device

manager without uninstalling or disabling it. Anyone have any ideas or

suggestions that don't consist of disabling/uninstalling?

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Re: XP Media Center 2005 Away Mode

 

 

 

"Bill" <acadeckiathotmaildotcom> wrote in message

news:1E0E3CA0-3179-4573-A3BA-329A1D16578A@microsoft.com...

> Ok, so I may be posting in the wrong forum, but I could not find a Media

> Center specific group. I am running XP Media Center 2005 on a Dell

> Dimension E520, 2.66 GHZ Dual-core Pentium D, 1 GB RAM 2 internal SATA 250

> GB/300 GB hard drives. GeForce 7300 LE 256 MB vid card (which is strangely

> shown pretty much everywhere in the system as having 512 MB though??)

> Anyhow, I reinstalled Windows some time ago with the CD instead of the

> factory image restore from the hidden partition. No problems, everything

> installed, working properly, and showing properly (except the vid card's

> memory) Quite a few months later bought the 300 GB drive to install, and

> after installation I noticed an unknown device in device manager. The hard

> drive is installed and working properly at this point, after some testing

> etc. the unknown device is definitely NOT the hard drive. I checked the

> properties of the unknown device checked out and searched the hardware

> strings on the details tab, and have come up with it's the Media Center

> Away Mode driver. From what I can tell searching, I can literally find

> nothing fruitful about how to fix this problem with the away mode driver.

> There is no away mode tab in Power Options either. I don't necessarily

> need the functionality of away mode, but I would like to get rid of this

> annoying entry in my device manager without uninstalling or disabling it.

> Anyone have any ideas or suggestions that don't consist of

> disabling/uninstalling?

 

 

 

I guess I should also mention that I have installed all windows updates and

all drivers are up-to-date.

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Guest Bill in Co.

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Re: XP Media Center 2005 Away Mode

 

Bill wrote:

> Ok, so I may be posting in the wrong forum, but I could not find a Media

> Center specific group.

 

Maybe in the microsoft windows multimedia newsgroups (they do exist).

> I am running XP Media Center 2005 on a Dell Dimension

> E520, 2.66 GHZ Dual-core Pentium D, 1 GB RAM 2 internal SATA 250 GB/300 GB

> hard drives. GeForce 7300 LE 256 MB vid card (which is strangely shown

> pretty much everywhere in the system as having 512 MB though??) Anyhow, I

> reinstalled Windows some time ago with the CD instead of the factory image

> restore from the hidden partition. No problems, everything installed,

> working properly, and showing properly (except the vid card's memory)

> Quite

> a few months later bought the 300 GB drive to install, and after

> installation I noticed an unknown device in device manager. The hard drive

> is installed and working properly at this point, after some testing etc.

> the

> unknown device is definitely NOT the hard drive. I checked the properties

> of

> the unknown device checked out and searched the hardware strings on the

> details tab, and have come up with it's the Media Center Away Mode driver.

> From what I can tell searching, I can literally find nothing fruitful

> about

> how to fix this problem with the away mode driver. There is no away mode

> tab

> in Power Options either. I don't necessarily need the functionality of

> away

> mode, but I would like to get rid of this annoying entry in my device

> manager without uninstalling or disabling it. Anyone have any ideas or

> suggestions that don't consist of disabling/uninstalling?

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