Need Help!! New Motherboard NForce 4

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jsquid526

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I just put together an upgrade consisting of an AMD X2 4200+ and an MSI K8N Neo4-f. I'm trying not to reformat but if I absolutley have to I will. When I booted for the first time it did not have the hard drive with windows on it set as the boot drive. Easy fix. Then i got into windows and nothing work, I expected that, and one by one it installed the standard drivers. It even recognized the muilti-core without a bios uupdate. I put the cd for the motherboard in and it didn't have anything on the drivers page. There are three things that have an exlamation point next to their names.

NVidia Network Bus Enumerator
nForce 4 HyperTransport Bridge
NVIDIA nForce PCI System Management

When I updated the drivers for those three when it reached the end a message came up saying
"An error occured during the installation of the device
The sytem cannot find the file specified."
 
Often one fast way to correct this error is to right click on the listing in the device manager and choose the update driver option to have Windows search for the correct drivers. You have to choose the uninstall option first and restart the system for a fresh detection. The MS information on this type of error can read at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810882

While you may not immediately need a bios update there is an optimizer for the dual core line of AMD cpus along with other utilities. http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_13118,00.html Unfortunately I lost a good link for an MS patch for problems seen in XP with the newer line of X2 processors. But it never takes me long to relocate the MS "Hot Fix" for mulitiple processor boards that also helps with dual cored cpus. http://support.microsoft.com/?id=896256
 
I think jsquid526 is referring to SMBus, memory controllers, and a pair of other things that Windows should have automatically installed once the board cd was browsed. On the cd you have to browse there for the drivers folder and then go to the Windows version folder to have those drivers copied onto the drive by XP. You can try the right click method in the device manager to either have Windows perform the auto search or browse the cd or unpacked files downloaded to see if that works.
 
That wasn't the necessary step to take. Even a repair install would have saved time and effort reinstalling most of the softwares. The fastest way would have been to uninstall each item in the device manager and have Windows redetect everything upon a restart and request for drivers where you could choose the automatic search for better drivers option or retry getting them copied off of the cd. Hopefully you hadn't had a chance to put much on before this.
 
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