Moving a Windows 7 image created on an AMD platform to an Intel platform, I ran into the dreaded Code 12 error with my Intel GMA3150 video device, indicating that it could not find enough free resources it can use. The culprit was the AMD PCI Express (3GIO) Filter Driver under the System Devices category in Device Manager. Right-click on the AMD PCI Express (3GIO) Filter Driver, uninstall the device, check the box to also REMOVE THE DRIVER FILES (otherwise it will return immediately) and reboot the computer. Install any missing device drivers normally, and reboot again, and you will no longer have the Code 12 error.
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Finally solved my BIG problem, we have 7 laptop thats been delayed for months because of this. HP support didn`t solve it, but now we can deliver the machines. Thanks!!!!
I’m happy to have helped you!
It works for me too;
I had the same problem after install windows 7 in some of PCs of our organization.
Congratulations..
Thank you very much it worked like a treat.
OMG, thx, o have tryied to look an every homepage i can find i think :d but now it works again, thx alooot.
Worked sweet as on brand new Asus PC which had had a PCI-E GeForce card installed. Onboard Intel video now works again, thank you for the fix!!!
Great, I solved this problem after migrating with Acronis. In my case the device driver had a different name, but I could see it was from AMD. Super
Thank you so much, I kew the AMD PCI device was the culprit, but every time I uninstalled it came right back. I totally forgot about the driver removal.
I have the same issue, I did checked remove file but every time after reboots it comes back, should I delete it somewhere else ?
hello I have the same problem, I did what you suggested and did check the remove file box. However, everytime I remove it it comes back right after I reboots, do you have the solution for this?
Genius! This worked perfectly for an old HP system I had syspreped to move to another box. Thank you so much!
I Have a question, Like you i moved my Windows 7 image created on an AMD platform to an Intel platform and the solution described above worked as well! But my question is, why does it want me to Activate Windows Again?
Anytime there’s a major hardware change like a motherboard swap, you can expect deactivation. The whole point of activation is to block someone from installing on one machine and moving the hard drive to another machine.
It worked for me too;
I had the same problem after moving a windows 7 harddisk to another laptop.
Thanks, Claus.
This *worked* for me! Didn’t even occur that there was a device with the name AMD on an intel system, many thanks and may your drives never fail!
Spreading this link all over my workplace ASAP.
Thank you very much!
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Even Intel and microsoft online support can’t help me like you did, you’re the man. thank you very much for saving my days
3GIO-PCI? did not exist but your advice lead to the real solution. It seems your right the PCI driver is the problem !! My driver list claims the right driver “Intel” is installed and yes the T530 Lenovo is an Intel MoBo and chip. However thanks to system deployment services the standard PCI driver from Intel was toast, but installed anyway. So I right clicked on the PCI device [in the managers list] and selected update/local machine area/”Let Me Select Drive” and only 2 compatible drivers showed up. The Intel still didn’t work. But the second time around I selected the “Microsoft PCI Driver” and WALA NO MORE ERROR CODE 12. So It matters not that it’s a 3GIO brand driver what matters is change “What-ever” is present to something else, in my case it was Microsoft’s driver that fixed it. Why doesn’t installing the proper “Chipset” driver fix this, I still blame Lenovo for this silliness.
Thanks for posting this. After a lot of searching I finally found this site and it fixed my problem after I swapped motherboards and processors (AMD to Intel). Other than this issue it went pretty smoothly.
Your fix worked like a charm, THANKS
i’ts been a while but i had to say this,you sir are a lifesaver.i’ve been looking for a fix for about 3 months.
This did not work for me. I have tried to remove the AMD PCI Express (3GIO) Filter Driver but every time I try to remove it, the computer never leaves the uninstalling screen. I let it run all night and had to force a reboot. The computer then would not shut down and I had to pull the plug. After turning it back on it said that windows could not start and repaired the problem by re-installing the AMD PCI Express (3GIO) Filter Driver. This happened 7 times. I still cant get it to work. My computer is a HP Pavilion dv6-2157wm Entertainment Notebook PC and my driver, that is having the problem, is the Intel(R) HD Graphics Driver.
If it’s not removing the driver, you may have other issues; it might be better to reinstall from scratch than to try to chase this down.
Hi, After removing AMD PCI express and restarting my system, most of drivers were removed and system try to install the correct driver for intel system board, after few minutes everything runs very good beside mobile intel 4 series display driver code 12 again,,, any suggestion?
Update about my previous comment, everything is working,,, restart the system again and everything is very good,, thanks again