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?
"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.
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?
XP Media Center 2005 Away Mode 
Linear Mode
