Windows 7 randomly installs an "Unknown Device" successfully
- by Amazed
Rarely (several days to weeks between occurrences,) and seemingly at random, I get a balloon notification from Windows 7 (x64 SP1 Home Premium) that it is installing hardware for me.
Whatever is being installed does so without error. However, no new hardware has been installed or plugged in! When I click the balloon it doesn't give me any useful information:
Looking in the event log, I find this entry:
Event ID: 20001
Source: UserPnp
Task Category: 7005
Message:
Driver Management concluded the process to install driver
FileRepository\usb.inf_amd64_neutral_153b489118ee37b8\usb.inf for
Device Instance ID USB\VID_0000&PID_0000\6&3AF9A177&0&0060&&02 with
the following status: 0x0.
It appears to be USB related. My motherboard has both USB 2.0 and 3.0 controllers. My keyboard and mouse are plugged into the 2.0 slots and the data/recharge cable for a tablet (but not the tablet itself) was plugged in to the 3.0 slot. No other USB devices have been attached for several days/reboots.
Why is Windows doing this?