Driver Dilemma - Dell Optiplex 755 - PCI Simple Communications Controller

matincelina

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Hi Guys... Can I resurrect this old thread please ?? Just call me Lazarus... :)

I have been reading till my eyes are bleeding, and hoping someone can help me out of my dilemma ?

I have tried all the advice in other threads, (bits relevant to XP Pro) and still have the 'Other Devices' flagged in the Device Manager as:

"PCI - Simple Communications Controller" - with no driver that will load or work.

I have also done the Dell Website diagnostic several different ways, to no avail :( -after updating and applying fixes to all of .NET runtime updates etc etc etc . . . .

Backgound : Stand alone home PC = DELL OPTIPLEX-755 ..... just formatted and re-installed Windows XP Pro.

Standard Intel Core Duo E6550 @ 2.33 Ghz / 2gb DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-6400) / Graphics=Intel Q35 / Network= Intel-82566DM-2 / 150 GB Hdd (Bios is old A12)

What I've tried >> Obtained the driver pack as mentioned here in other threads, and individually installed every driver for all of the unknown hardware one by one. But this last ah heck just won't play fair :)

Perhaps I installed drivers in the wrong order ??? There was two of the above unknown "PCI simple communications controller" entry's, but one easily installed with one of the above Dell drivers.

I also read late last night about a possible fix removing Registry References to old drivers ? And several fixes were found by doing that. Unfortunately I lots the link to that forum, and don't know where to start. Obviously I'm not typing in the right string into google.

Can anyone please help ??

Cheers, Paul.

Oh also.... Do these machines normally take SO bloody long to boot .... Seriously ?? sits on a flashing curser at two l-o-n-g intervals, takes about one full minute, then boots into windows XP just fine ??? Any idea's ??


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jb6684

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You mention: "PCI simple communications controller" ....

What exactly is Not working for you? (other than this message...)

XP slows you down, hard disk vs SSD slows your down, that older CPU slows you down. My old system takes several minutes to boot also, never "timed it" thou...

For comparison; Windows 8, SSD drive, and AMD 4130 system I recently built cold boots in 8 seconds. So, things Can boot much faster.
 

wcripley

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I have the same problem. Did you ever figure this out? Please email me at <no posting of personal email-thank you>



 

carver_g

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Go to Dell's website, support, drivers, enter Optiplex 755, and you should be at the driver downloads for Windows XP. Under Chipset, download and install Intel AMT HECI and Intel AMT SOL/ LMS.