Windows Installed, Devices Not Recognized??? Help Please.

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struby

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I had a 30 gig hard drive, I am replacing it with a 120 gig hard drive:

I had problems installing, which I think was due to the fact that I had some devices in, that when taken out, Windows installed fine, but now here is the problem:

Edit: It is Windows XP on a Dell with a Pentium 4 processor, 2 ghz, 768 ram.

I am on my old hard drive now, and all of this stuff is fine:

4 devices are not recognized, as in they have a yellow question mark, I think they are as follows, and seam to be integrated items:

Ethernet Controller
Audio whatever
Video Adapter
Some other hub thing

I can't connect to the internet on that hard drive, it is a Maxtor, this is a Western Digital, I don't know if that makes any difference, but that is my problem. I have tried restarting the compouter. Any help would be appretiated.

Edit: Sry if there is a better place on the forums for this.
 
Two of your device problems would probably be solved by installing the motherboard drivers. The Audio will be the onboard AC97 driver,an integrated motherboard device. Same goes for your ethernet, and probably the "some other hub thing". Your Dell should have come with a disk with all of those on. I'm not big on Dells, so I wouldn't be able to tell you what it looks like, but it's seperate to the Windows installation disk.

As for the Video Adapter, it's the driver for your video card, which can be downloaded from the manufacturer's website when you have the ethernet working. (Make sure you have a firewall active when you do that).

Hope this helps. :)
 
Ok

Thanks for the help, my Nvidia Graphics card is working fine I think, my integrated one isn't, so it sounds like my motherboard drivers could fix it all, thanks.

No, I am not using Windows XP Professional Lite, it is Windows XP Home Edition.
 
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Ok, I put in the resource cd, and manually selected, extracted and downloaded the chip set drivers, but 3 integrated devices still have the yellow question marks, I tried restarting my computer, I don't know what to try from here.
 
Got it

Thanks for the help guys, as it turns out, I had to install some drivers I thought I would already have or something, I was confused, but everything seams to be working ok now, thanks again.
 
Yeah, I figure it was the driver and that's good that you got it fixed. I was reading at the very beginning and I thought I could answer it, but just not sure what it was, haha... I almost got exact same answer.

Cody J. §
 
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