Do you have a URL/link for "Nvidia's automatic driver finder"? At 07:19 PM 10/4/2008, Richard P. wrote: >Finally a solution. Yes, I was in driver hell and I am just now >successfully emerging from it. To refresh, after replacing a defective >hard drive and performing a system recovery, the computer lost many >functions. It didn't have an Ethernet connection, video drivers, audio >drivers and a couple of others. The original recovery CD did not help. >After contacting AMD (processor), eMachines (tower), and MIS >(motherboard), I ended up at NVidia. Very long story short, I ended up >using NVidia's automatic driver finder which worked superbly! It found >and installed about a dozen drivers which ultimately solved >everything. Even the missing Ethernet port showed back up in the >Device Manager. I was also surprised to learn that it is a smart idea >to back up all existing drivers from an operating system so that they >can be used after recovery. AMD's support said that the top 3 drivers >that fail to be installed during a system recovery are Video >controller, PCI Simple Communications Controller, and processor. > >Thanks for letting me know I was in driver hell so I was able to begin >crawling my way out of it. > >Richard P. > >On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Tom Piwowar <> wrote: >>>I uninstalled them all and tried to reinstall them when the computer >>>found them upon reboot, but that installation failed. The monitor >>>refresh is sluggish, and the Ethernet port still doesn't work. Any >>>suggestions or is it time to give up. Can't figure out if it's >>>hardware or software or both at this point. >> >> Looks like you are in driver hell. Sometimes the cuase of the problem is >> a conflict caused by a driver that is not flagged. To get around that you >> must uninstall devices that are both flagged and not flagged with a "?" >> and then let plug and play put everything back together, hopefull in an >> order that will work. Best to try this after you are sure you have >> current drivers for everything involved. Driver voodoo can drive you nuts. >> >> The problem could also be a too new driver. One that doesn't really match >> the version of the OS you are running. >> >> This is the toughest thing about reinstalling Windows. You can't be sure >> that the OS and the bunch of drivers you got are really compatable. >> >> Another approach woule be to install OS and drivers from your original CD >> that came with the computer. After installing and making sure everything >> works you are starting from a known state. Then start updating and >> checking gradually while taking careful notes. >> >The only thing I found with a yellow question mark were "Other >Devices" which listed 5 items: > >Video controller >SM Bus Controller >Other PCI Bridge Device >PCI Device >PCI Simple Communications Controller > >I uninstalled them all and tried to reinstall them when the computer >found them upon reboot, but that installation failed. The monitor >refresh is sluggish, and the Ethernet port still doesn't work. Any >suggestions or is it time to give up. Can't figure out if it's >hardware or software or both at this point.
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