On 7 Dec 2005 at 18:33, Kylde wrote: > look for model numbers on the motherboard, find the manufacturer, check > out their driver support? All the items you listed sound to me purely > like driver issues. Was it white-box? No CD's supplied with the system?
Not white box -- it was a Dell system [and so has the 'restore partition' and nothing else]. It did boot to XP/Home and I can see that it has "Intel(R) 82891GB Universal Host Controller". I guess I can/should look for drivers for it on the internet, burn them to a floppy or CD or something, then load the drivers onto the XP system... Turning out to be a real problem -- I've never seen anything as complicated and confusingly laid out as the Intel site.. what a mess For example: with much poking around, I found my way to Intel "Embedded Chipset", # 945G. Farther down, it does say: Product: Intel® ICH7R or ICH7 I/O Controller Hub Product Code: 82801GR5 82801GB Package: 652 PBGA 652 PBGA Features: Six PCI masters and four or six5 PCI Express* x1 channels Serial and Parallel ATA interfaces USB 2.0, (eight ports) Intel® High Definition Audio or AC'97 Sinc "82801GB" is what I have for all the "?"s on my XP setup, I assume that that's what I want. So I go to their driver-download page (<http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/software/driver/index.htm#945G>) and I find 945G drivers for: Win 2K, Windows XP/Embedded, XP Pro 64, Linux. What I have is vanilla XP/Pro/SP2. Is the "XP/Embedded" the right thing [if not, am I out of luck -- XP/Pro won't run on this motherboard??]. There are then SEVEN downloads listed: Graphics Media accelerator, Integrated LAN, High definition Audio, Matrix Storage Manager, F6 Driver Disk, Chipset Install Utility. If anyone can illuminate what's going on with all this [and what I need to do to get my system up] I'd appreciate it. THANKS!! /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
