oh that's good news, thank you the problem I have is that I cannot open up the drivers by running it as it is closing, maybe there's another way too? thank you
You should get an audio cable with the motherboard and if you use HDMI on a video card it will use the onboard sound on the video card not the sound from you sound card or motherboard unless you have external speakers
Go into Device Manager, right click on the missing drivers (the ones with a yellow question mark next to them), go to Update Driver Software and tell it to look for the drivers on the CD.
Go to go now.
Click on start and in the search box type device manager and hit enter, in device manager click on network controllers to expand, select the realtek controller and then right click, from the popup list select uninstall, reboot, upon reboot windows should rediscover and install/configure the controller.
Only thing I could suggest to do is restart your computer or if still doesn't come up just reinstall windows.
Unless anyone else knows what to do.
thank you good idea! I'll try this out, thanks!
Did you restart your computer or reinstall windows?
Just turn off your computer put your windows 7 disk in the cd drive then turn your computer back on and watch for the boot with cd press any key when this happens and it should start up and run through the installation process when you get to the part where you manage which drive its installing to erase everything on the drive and reinstall it on the clean drive.
After that everything should be fine. Unless you have plugged anything wrong or you LAN is malfunctioning. Then you'll need to buy a new LAN card.
uhoh, I clicked on the ethernet and pressed find drivers from the CD, and it found them, but it says that it had problems trying to install the drivers from the CD "Windows encountered a problem installing the driver software for your device. Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it. Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
every driver installed correctly apart from the ethernet controller and SM Bus controller
It may have actually installed successfully. I sometimes get the same error when installing my ethernet drivers. Just try going on the internet and see if it will let you connect.
Look in device manager under network adapters and tell me what's listed. Are there any yellow question marks next to any entries in device manager? If so, please list them. Do not install drivers manually. The motherboard cd will do that automatically once you start the utility. Then download the latest video card driver from the makers website, AMD or nvidia depending which card you have.