Michael Albert
December 11th 03, 11:41 PM
My hardware profiles are messed up.
When I boot I see a choice of 2 profiles: Standard and
Undocked no NIC. When I go to the Hardware Profiles screen
I see 2 entries: Standard and a blank entry. The property
of the blank entry shows garbage in the name, Dock ID, and
Serial Number fields. The blank entry can be copied
successfully. If I rename it and then exit and reenter the
screen, the name is blank again. If I delete the blank
entry and exit and reenter the screen, it's back. If I
pick another entry and try to rename it to Undocked no NIC,
I'm told that a profile with that name already exists. The
most bizarre behavior occurs if I use the arrows on the
right to move entries up and down: some times when I press
an arrow it behaves normally, but sometimes each arrow
press corrupts the name unpredictably. Sometimes when I
exit the Hardware Profiles screen I get an exception.
I've no idea how the profiles got broken. I've applied all
the XP updates, checked for viruses, checked all devices
for errors, and run chkdsk. Everything else works fine.
I've obviously got some corrupted data. Any ideas how to
fix it?
Thanks,
Mike
When I boot I see a choice of 2 profiles: Standard and
Undocked no NIC. When I go to the Hardware Profiles screen
I see 2 entries: Standard and a blank entry. The property
of the blank entry shows garbage in the name, Dock ID, and
Serial Number fields. The blank entry can be copied
successfully. If I rename it and then exit and reenter the
screen, the name is blank again. If I delete the blank
entry and exit and reenter the screen, it's back. If I
pick another entry and try to rename it to Undocked no NIC,
I'm told that a profile with that name already exists. The
most bizarre behavior occurs if I use the arrows on the
right to move entries up and down: some times when I press
an arrow it behaves normally, but sometimes each arrow
press corrupts the name unpredictably. Sometimes when I
exit the Hardware Profiles screen I get an exception.
I've no idea how the profiles got broken. I've applied all
the XP updates, checked for viruses, checked all devices
for errors, and run chkdsk. Everything else works fine.
I've obviously got some corrupted data. Any ideas how to
fix it?
Thanks,
Mike