A7N8X-E Driver Problem

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Hada A7N8X...ran like a swiss watch...had a CPU go bad and picked up
the A7N8X-E board. New 2800+ XP and new corsair memory. Cannot load
the Nvidia drivers from the disk. Downloaded latest from Nvidia and
still won't load. Downloaded "approved" drivers from Asus and still
won't load. The wizard...bless its rotten heart...keeps coming up and
looking for a location...I give it the location...and it still can't
load the drivers. The AGP to PCI, the PCI controllers, and the network
port drivers won't load. This make the boad a problem to use.

Cannot figure out how to get the drivers get loaded on this board.
Never had this problem before.

Running XP sp2.

Help me, oh Obe wan Kenobi!!!

Henry

 

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hlamuthnospam@whatever.com wrote:
>
> Hada A7N8X...ran like a swiss watch...had a CPU go bad and picked up
> the A7N8X-E board. New 2800+ XP and new corsair memory. Cannot load
> the Nvidia drivers from the disk. Downloaded latest from Nvidia and
> still won't load. Downloaded "approved" drivers from Asus and still
> won't load. The wizard...bless its rotten heart...keeps coming up and
> looking for a location...I give it the location...and it still can't
> load the drivers. The AGP to PCI, the PCI controllers, and the network
> port drivers won't load. This make the boad a problem to use.
>
> Cannot figure out how to get the drivers get loaded on this board.
> Never had this problem before.
>
> Running XP sp2.
>
> Help me, oh Obe wan Kenobi!!!
>
> Henry

I had probs loading the newer nforce2 drivers as well, I reinstalled a
couple times with a few reboots, finally they took, never had this glitch
with previous nforce2 drivers.
I think the package was 5.10 just came out a last week.

 

[Sam]

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Sometime on, or about Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:39:03 -0500,
hlamuthnospam@whatever.com wrote:

> I have cycled all the way through the security updates and sp2 on my
> current load. So, can can I do a repair from the sp2 disk or do I have
> to go back to the install disk and then do sp2 and then all the stray
> updates that sp2 does not contain?
>
> I now have dial up and that prospect really puts me off if I have to
> do a bunch of downloads. God bless high speed connections!!!!
>
> Henry

To do a repair option you'll need to use your original XP disk (unless
you've created a slipstreamed disk that includes sp2). Your sp2 disk
from Microsoft won't help you do this process. What you do is boot off
the original XP CD... eventually you'll come to a screen that says
Repair. Despite what it says at this point, continue on (if you hit R
here you'll end up at the command console prompt, which won't help
you). If you do continue, you'll eventually get to a second screen
that also uses Repair... this is where you hit R. The repair option
will look like an install, but it will preserve your basic settings.
Part of the process, though, will be to totally re-detect your
hardware. That's the part you really need. Be sure you have your
Product Key, you'll need it to finish the install. Once it's done,
apply sp2 and then install the nVidia drivers.

Personally, I prefer to do a complete re-install. I think you get a
cleaner installation that way, but that's just me. The down side is
that you need to reinstall all of your software, etc. If you have all
your installation disks, you can usually get things back up and
running pretty quickly though.

Sam
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I agree with your assessment. I have so much stuff to reinstall that I
will keep my fingers crossed the repair is all I need.

Thanks for the help. BTW, my off topic issue with System Info was easy
to fix...once I found the KB report that said how to fix it. The
Windows Management Instrumentation service has to be fixed using a cmd
line delete and re-install. It took me many months and efforts to
finally stumble on this simple fix. Pass it along...I asked in the
Windows XP forum and never got an answer...must have been too simple
for them!!!

Thanks, again.

Henry

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:19:42 -0700, Sam <srs2_11BS@bsHotmailBS.com>
wrote:

>Sometime on, or about Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:39:03 -0500,
>hlamuthnospam@whatever.com wrote:
>
>> I have cycled all the way through the security updates and sp2 on my
>> current load. So, can can I do a repair from the sp2 disk or do I have
>> to go back to the install disk and then do sp2 and then all the stray
>> updates that sp2 does not contain?
>>
>> I now have dial up and that prospect really puts me off if I have to
>> do a bunch of downloads. God bless high speed connections!!!!
>>
>> Henry
>
>To do a repair option you'll need to use your original XP disk (unless
>you've created a slipstreamed disk that includes sp2). Your sp2 disk
>from Microsoft won't help you do this process. What you do is boot off
>the original XP CD... eventually you'll come to a screen that says
>Repair. Despite what it says at this point, continue on (if you hit R
>here you'll end up at the command console prompt, which won't help
>you). If you do continue, you'll eventually get to a second screen
>that also uses Repair... this is where you hit R. The repair option
>will look like an install, but it will preserve your basic settings.
>Part of the process, though, will be to totally re-detect your
>hardware. That's the part you really need. Be sure you have your
>Product Key, you'll need it to finish the install. Once it's done,
>apply sp2 and then install the nVidia drivers.
>
>Personally, I prefer to do a complete re-install. I think you get a
>cleaner installation that way, but that's just me. The down side is
>that you need to reinstall all of your software, etc. If you have all
>your installation disks, you can usually get things back up and
>running pretty quickly though.
>
>Sam

 

[gw]

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Long time ago, you used to be able to go in to Device Manger and remove all
the items, if you will. Don't re-boot, and remove the ide drivers last.
You will probably have to shutdown hard. It's an old trick that I have seen
and did a couple of times on several 95-me machines. You have to be a geek
though and it don't always work.

<hlamuthnospam@whatever.com> wrote in message
news:4u4pl057714isu2gumnqu21rsrd06n4i3s@4ax.com...
>I agree with your assessment. I have so much stuff to reinstall that I
> will keep my fingers crossed the repair is all I need.
>
> Thanks for the help. BTW, my off topic issue with System Info was easy
> to fix...once I found the KB report that said how to fix it. The
> Windows Management Instrumentation service has to be fixed using a cmd
> line delete and re-install. It took me many months and efforts to
> finally stumble on this simple fix. Pass it along...I asked in the
> Windows XP forum and never got an answer...must have been too simple
> for them!!!
>
> Thanks, again.
>
> Henry
>
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:19:42 -0700, Sam <srs2_11BS@bsHotmailBS.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Sometime on, or about Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:39:03 -0500,
>>hlamuthnospam@whatever.com wrote:
>>
>>> I have cycled all the way through the security updates and sp2 on my
>>> current load. So, can can I do a repair from the sp2 disk or do I have
>>> to go back to the install disk and then do sp2 and then all the stray
>>> updates that sp2 does not contain?
>>>
>>> I now have dial up and that prospect really puts me off if I have to
>>> do a bunch of downloads. God bless high speed connections!!!!
>>>
>>> Henry
>>
>>To do a repair option you'll need to use your original XP disk (unless
>>you've created a slipstreamed disk that includes sp2). Your sp2 disk
>>from Microsoft won't help you do this process. What you do is boot off
>>the original XP CD... eventually you'll come to a screen that says
>>Repair. Despite what it says at this point, continue on (if you hit R
>>here you'll end up at the command console prompt, which won't help
>>you). If you do continue, you'll eventually get to a second screen
>>that also uses Repair... this is where you hit R. The repair option
>>will look like an install, but it will preserve your basic settings.
>>Part of the process, though, will be to totally re-detect your
>>hardware. That's the part you really need. Be sure you have your
>>Product Key, you'll need it to finish the install. Once it's done,
>>apply sp2 and then install the nVidia drivers.
>>
>>Personally, I prefer to do a complete re-install. I think you get a
>>cleaner installation that way, but that's just me. The down side is
>>that you need to reinstall all of your software, etc. If you have all
>>your installation disks, you can usually get things back up and
>>running pretty quickly though.
>>
>>Sam
>

 

[Sam]

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Sometime on, or about Fri, 08 Oct 2004 01:11:20 GMT, gw wrote:

> Long time ago, you used to be able to go in to Device Manger and remove all
> the items, if you will. Don't re-boot, and remove the ide drivers last.
> You will probably have to shutdown hard. It's an old trick that I have seen
> and did a couple of times on several 95-me machines. You have to be a geek
> though and it don't always work.

It also works best from the Safe Mode. I've tried it myself, but still
prefer the Repair option. It seems to be a cleaner install. Of course
the best option of all is to do a totally new install and then
reinstall all your software.

Sam
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