it means a driver is incorrectly configured or missing
in Windows 7 I believe you must have Administrator priveldge to install hardware Windows 7 starter home basic and Home Premium
Windows 7 Professional Enterprise and Ultimate you must also have administrator privledge and local security must grant Administrators to add hardware
Windows Vista same thing as Windows 7
A yellow exclamation point next to a device in Device Manager means that Windows has identified a problem of some kind with that device.
ok, that means that the device is not working properly or not working at all.
Yellow Triangle or Question Mark.
yellow question mark.esclamation point red x on the device icon
"PCI communications device" is displayed in the Device Manager when Windows does not have a driver for a PCI device that is used for networking in some fashion. It could be a dial-up modem, Ethernet controller, or a wireless card. You will need to download drivers from your computer manufacturer to display a more specific name in the Device Manager and make the yellow question mark go away.
You will see a symbol with red color cross (X mark) on the device icon which indicates that device is not working or disabled.
It is a "!" is a yellow triangle
yellow triangle or yellow exclamation mark
it means that the driver of that device is either not loaded or not properly loaded.. load the driver once again from the driver disk and the sign will go off..
A yellow exclamation mark in a triangle or a red cross in a circle indicate a problem. Displayed as a yellow triangle or question mark.
Your sounds drivers are not installed. Find out the manufacturer of your card, and download the drivers. It might be listed in the Device Manager. Check the Device Manager to see if there are other drivers that you missed as well. START - CONTROL PANEL - SYSTEM - Go the the TAB on the top labeled HARDWARE - Click the buttom DEVICE MANAGER. Any devices in conflict, without drivers, or any other problems will be listed with a yellow explanation point to the left of it.
Check to see if your sound card is working properly and compatible with your computer. Go to My Computer, click Properties and then Device Manager and there will be a yellow sign to show if sound card isn't working. Check to see if your sound card is working properly and compatible with your computer. Go to My Computer, click Properties and then Device Manager and there will be a yellow sign to show if sound card isn't working.
A black exclamation point (!) on a yellow field - Indicates that the device is not functioning properly. A red "X" - Indicates the device as been disabled. A blue "i" on a white filed - Indicates the device was manually configured A green question mark (?) - Indicates that a compatible driver is installed but the device may not have all the functionality available.
You might have to download the drivers of that device. Vista Start Right Click My Computer Properties Device Manager All the things you see that are with a yellow exclamation marks, those are the drivers that need to be installed. They usually already have what they are so you can just look it up.