I have a machine which I bought from a bespoke music PC firm, who I think have now gone bust. I rebuilt it last week, but am struggling to install the graphics card. Every time I put in the driver disc it offers to auto-run, but then nothing happens. Thinking it was an issue with my DVD drive I copied the contents of the driver disc to an external harddrive, and tried executing the set-up.exe from there, but again nothing happens.
THe machine is running Win7 x64, but I'm afraid I can't remember much about the components - the build sheet that the company sent with it didn't actually show several of the components - including the graphic card - and they neglected to send the manuals. The driver disc is from ASUS and says v386 on it, but I'm guessing the installers cover a large range of their cards.
When I rebuilt the machine I did have a slight issue. Windows refused to make a system partition - I got around this by switching my SATA drivers to AHCI mode rather than IDE in the BIOS, and suddenly the Windows install would talk to them again. Having googled AHCI mode I note that any processes which rely on MSDOS might not be visible - is it possible that this is why the install process for my sound card seems to be simply vanishing into nowhere?
THe machine is running Win7 x64, but I'm afraid I can't remember much about the components - the build sheet that the company sent with it didn't actually show several of the components - including the graphic card - and they neglected to send the manuals. The driver disc is from ASUS and says v386 on it, but I'm guessing the installers cover a large range of their cards.
When I rebuilt the machine I did have a slight issue. Windows refused to make a system partition - I got around this by switching my SATA drivers to AHCI mode rather than IDE in the BIOS, and suddenly the Windows install would talk to them again. Having googled AHCI mode I note that any processes which rely on MSDOS might not be visible - is it possible that this is why the install process for my sound card seems to be simply vanishing into nowhere?
