it woudnl't let me download live update. It says i don't have "permission to acces this server". I don't have pop ups blocked and tried 3 different browsers. so i got it off my mobo driver disc, ran it, then it updated to the latest liveupdate...and i flashed my bios. seemed to go okay.
when it restarted, it said "cmos checksum bad", and it gave me the option to enter setup or load default settings and start. Upon load up it detected all my controllers and installed them righteo, then it detected some misc PCI device, and couldn't install it. I restarted and got the same checksum bad msg, and it detected the PCI device again and couldn't install it.
I then shutdown, (as opposed to just restarting), then booted up and i don't get the checksum msg anymore. but everytime i boot it detects this misc PCI device and can't install it. no idea whats going on. i uninstalled it from device manager and it still comes back. it no longer lists Jmicron in device manager. it just says 'standard duel cannel pci ide controller'
{b]My drive works fine now.[/b] so i guess that part worked, well sort of, it still seems a wee bit laggy, i dunno if i'm just being insane by now.
i don't know how to get rid of this PCI nonsense, should i reinstall my pci devices?...even though they are working fine, should i somehow restore my bios and try again. should i reinstall JMicron drivers? what the hell is checksum?.....whatever....sorry for being so long winded, i'm out of breath now.
anyways, thank you so much for your patient help carver, i can now finally watch dvds on my $1500 purchase, if you were a sheep, I would marry you