A tech adviser said to download ALL the XP drivers to be sure, so I did. I'm still missing the multimedia audio driver and the Ethernet controller. From the ASUS site, I've had problems "updating" my missing drivers (with the yellow question marks), and I'm still not sure after 4 months of fighting with this, exactly which items I need to reload, and how. I think loading the drivers onto my flash drive is the best way to go (from this laptop, via the ASUS site). My mobo came with Realtek '97 Audio on board, but I guess it can up-grade to SoundMAX alright? I don't have clue if the Ethernet driver is a LAN or IDE driver. If it's an IDE driver, which one? I built Frank(enstein) from a pup, and this is his fourth incarnation, but in 12 years of running XP Pro on him, I've never had so many problems. I'm not really a tech-head, and I've gotten as much harmful "tech support" as good.
Lead this idiot by the hand, a little more and the big black box might live again.
Stupid question number two: My 500GB removable USB2 WD HD needs to be wiped clean, for a number of reasons, including two corrupted downloads of Win XP on it. I know there must be an easy way to do it, but what is it? I think (dangerous I know) it would be a total re-format of it. Is there a better (different) way? Thanks!
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