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Serious device driver issues Charaille 04-14-2007
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Posted by Charaille on April 14, 2007, 12:28 pm
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I have just purchased a new laptop and have installed Windows XP professional
on it. As far as I know, the installation went fine, but my computer has no
sound or internet access, and under device manager, the following devices
show a "code 28."

Ethernet controller
Mass storage controller
Network controller
PCI device
SM Bus controller
Video Controller
Video Controller (VGA compatible)

As I cannot access the internet from that computer, is there any way I can
download the proper drivers for these and bring them to my other computer
using an external hard drive?

Any help is very much appreciated!

Posted by Nigel Barker on April 14, 2007, 12:54 pm
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On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:28:01 -0700, Charaille

>I have just purchased a new laptop and have installed Windows XP professional
>on it. As far as I know, the installation went fine, but my computer has no
>sound or internet access, and under device manager, the following devices
>show a "code 28."
>
>Ethernet controller
>Mass storage controller
>Network controller
>PCI device
>SM Bus controller
>Video Controller
>Video Controller (VGA compatible)
>
>As I cannot access the internet from that computer, is there any way I can
>download the proper drivers for these and bring them to my other computer
>using an external hard drive?
>
>Any help is very much appreciated!

This is a Media Center group so you may get a better response asking somewhere
more appropriate.

But while I'm here...

A new laptop normally comes with an operating system. What happened to yours?
The manufacturer will
have installed all the correct drivers for the hardware. The manufacturers web
site would be the
place to look for all your missing drivers.
--

Cheers

Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
MCE MVP

Posted by Alex DK on April 14, 2007, 6:08 pm
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Hí´

I agree to Nigel, but what the Heck, lets give it a try:
Your Mobo=motherboard, is equiped with a chipset. You will have to now the
identity of that chipset ex: Nvidia Nforce2 - Via etc. When you now the
chipset.
it is fairly easy to go to the chipset manufacturer homepage and download
the driver you need. You can copy the file to an USB stick and from there
copy it to your PC and then install.
The devices listet, tells me that you need the chipset driver. Once you have
that, things will start to work out for you.

How to identify your chipset! If its a "BRAND" pc, then it should be quite
easy to find the right info on the net, perhabs by the help of en
internetcafe oc :-)

/Alex -DK

"Charaille" wrote:

> I have just purchased a new laptop and have installed Windows XP professional
> on it. As far as I know, the installation went fine, but my computer has no
> sound or internet access, and under device manager, the following devices
> show a "code 28."
>
> Ethernet controller
> Mass storage controller
> Network controller
> PCI device
> SM Bus controller
> Video Controller
> Video Controller (VGA compatible)
>
> As I cannot access the internet from that computer, is there any way I can
> download the proper drivers for these and bring them to my other computer
> using an external hard drive?
>
> Any help is very much appreciated!

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