Base System Device - no driver

#1 I haven't a clue what "Base System Device" is... but device manager reports that there is no driver installed and Windows cannot install it automatically


I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 and Google is getting nothing when I search "Base System Device"

Have you gone to Dell's webpage for that specific model and installed all the drivers it has available?

If you have the service tag sticker: http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/...oductSelection

no relevant results for "Base system device"

Is this listed in Device Manager under the "system devices" section? What OS do you have W7 32-bit?

All the issues you are having: recycle bin refusing to empty, flash drive disappearing, files disappearing ... please make sure you run a full system a/v scan before you post more. Also please tell us what version W7 you have and bit-size. Based on fact I only see 32-bit Vista drivers for that laptop I assume you have 32-bit but it would be nice if you could confirm that.

Windows 7 32-bit... MSSecurity Essentials IS a full system scan!!! I see it scanning the System files a lot!!! and scans every three days!!!

Can you get a screen capture of what you are seeing?

The scan every 3 days ... that would likely be a full scan, which is good. And the normal scanning, that means it's an active scan, which is also good.

But as I said, no A/V is perfect. And once a virus is in your machine it can easily hide itself from your A/V. MBAM is free (the passive version I mentioned) so it costs you nothing to download & install. Then, as mentioned, it should be run in safe mode (because some viruses don't function well in safe mode). If you wanted to be even safer you could download RKILL (also in the Freeware DB, near the bottom under virus removal).. Then what you would do is install MBAM (RKILL is not installed), reboot into safe mode, run RKILL and then, when that finishes, run a full MBAM scan. Better safe then sorry.

Your problems could also be something as simple as your hard drive dying. Often times hard drives don't just die suddenly, they can just start going bad. What happens is they get bad sectors that no longer properly hold a charge; in which case any data/drivers/programs in that sector could be lost.

You can drop to a command prompt and run SFC /scannow to verify your protected system files are correct.

You can run CHKDSK /r and have it scan the hard drive on next boot to look for hard drive problems.

We're just trying to help you here. We can't see your computer and we simply are trying to eliminate the most likely causes.

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the WD one is my 2TB External Hard Drive and there is a driver for it but it says there isn't... please disregard that...

Simply put, your missing a driver for some hardware that you have.
Have you added hardware that doesn't work?
Have you downloaded and installed all the drivers from Dell for the Inspiron 1525?

I would guess, as I cannot see your computer, that it is specific to Dell hardware.

Was it always like this? OR did you do a re-install lately?

ever since I took off Vista and put on Windows 7, it has been like this!!! how am I supposed to get drivers if I have NO CLUE to what it is and searching it on Dell brings up nothing!!!