Last night we had a big thunderstorm with lightning very close by so I shut down both computers. I restarted the Windows 8 computer several hours later. The XP Pro computer I did not restart until a few minutes ago. Usually both run 24/7.
So, when I tried to start the XP computer I had a problem with the monitor not coming on and while I was fiddling with that, I see a systray message popup on my Windows 8 computer's monitor saying a USB device recently connected malfunctioned and Windows doesn't know what it is. I couldn't close the message and it was sort of strange as it kept fading in and out. I checked Device Manager on the Windows 8 computer and no yellow exclamation points on any USB connections.
I kept trying to close the popup and couldn't as it would close for a moment and then the popup would appear again. I HAD NOT STARTED ANY NEW USB DEVICES. Finally, AFTER I got the monitor connected to the XP Pro computer working and got that computer booted then the popup on the Windows 8 computer disappeared on its own!
Event Viewer says:
Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-DeviceSetupManager/Admin
Source: Microsoft-Windows-DeviceSetupManager
Date: 7/14/2014 2:42:03 PM
Event ID: 121
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords:
User: SYSTEM
Computer: Smokey
Description:
Driver install failed, result=0x80070422 for devnode 'USB\VID_0000&PID_0002\6&1963CC31&0&5'
Event Xml:
121
0
2
0
0
0x4000000000000000
5536
Microsoft-Windows-DeviceSetupManager/Admin
Smokey
USB\VID_0000&PID_0002\6&1963CC31&0&5
2147943458
So, what was that all about? I think PID-0002 is in reference to Bluetooth which is disabled as I have no Bluetooth devices. I suppose it was just co-incidence that this popup happened at the same time I was trying to boot my XP Pro computer? Why wouldn't the popup go away when I kept closing it?
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