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Ammut - Jun 2, 2004

		Ammut		Jun 2, 2004
			Windows won't recognize anything... After Windows XP Home no longer booted up I reformatted my drive and did a clean install of XP Pro. Once the installation finished everything booted up fine (yay) but for some reason windows does not recognize any of my adaptors. I tried connecting to the internet to no avail, it won't play any sound (no sound card is detected) and even my graphics card isn't there according to windows. Any suggestions/ideas would be greatly appreciated, preferably before I throw my computer out the window ---Ammut

		racketboy		Jun 2, 2004
			Windows won't recognize anything... actually I like XP. Go into the Control Panel/Device Manager and see if there are any devices that need drivers. Then we can start narrowing down problems

		Alexvrb		Jun 2, 2004
			Windows won't recognize anything... I don't like everything about XP, its TOO automated. If something does go wrong, it is much easier to fix it in 9x systems. Anyway, you need to install drivers for your hardware if XP didn't do it for you.

		racketboy		Jun 2, 2004
			Windows won't recognize anything... really? once you turn off all the dumbed down interface, I love XP

		ExCyber		Jun 4, 2004
			Windows won't recognize anything... What I don't like about Windows in general and XP especially is that "wipe the drive and do a fresh install" is considered to be a perfectly acceptable solution to issues that would be minor if there were a real service mode (profile/registry corruption for example can completely break safe mode, and the recovery console is too restricted to be useful). And the Repair Install generally results in a broken system once you've applied service packs.

		racketboy		Jun 4, 2004
			Windows won't recognize anything... isn't that the case with ANY version of Windows? A fresh install is usually the best fix for super irritating problems.

Des-ROW

Jun 4, 2004

Windows won't recognize anything...

	
	
		
		
			Originally posted by Ammut@Jun 2, 2004 @ 06:21 PM



 Any suggestions/ideas would be greatly appreciated, preferably before I throw my computer out the window  



---Ammut

Get SuSE 9.1 Professional ^.^

racketboy

Jun 4, 2004

Windows won't recognize anything...

	
	
		
		
			Originally posted by Des-ROW+Jun 4, 2004 @ 06:13 PM-->QUOTE(Des-ROW @ Jun 4, 2004 @ 06:13 PM)
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			Originally posted by Des-ROW@Jun 4, 2004 @ 06:13 PM



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			Originally posted by racketboy@Jun 4, 2004 @ 01:28 PM



 




    	
	
		
		
			Originally posted by Des-ROW@Jun 4, 2004 @ 06:13 PM



 QUOTE(racketboy @ Jun 4, 2004 @ 07:29 PM)
 QUOTE(MTXBlau @ Jun 4, 2004 @ 08:39 PM)