October 2007 Archives

Recently I reinstalled Windows XP on my homebrew system, built around an Intel D975XBX “Bad Axe” motherboard. I like a clean Windows XP install with everything working nicely the way it should. So I was bothered by an unknown device in my Windows Device Manager – you know, the yellow dot with the black exclamation point in it. I couldn’t figure out what it was, as I had loaded all the drivers, and everything was working. Looking at the device properties I found a clue: it had the device ID:

ACPI\AWY0001\4&3036D68D&0

A google search was not very helpful, but a little more poking around and I figured it out. There is a BIOS option called “Quick Resume” that sounded like something I wanted, so I had turned it on. However, “Quick Resume” only works with the Media Center version of Windows, and not with ordinary Windows XP Professional. And that was the source of my mystery device. I turned “Quick Resume” off in the BIOS and the mystery device went away.