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Mike News · Guest

I've just bought a base unit of a work mate containing the above
motherboard, installed WinXP SP2b and trying to install the drivers from
the nVIDIA nForce2 Series Utility CD (Version 1.0)

On pages 89/90 of the manual, it lists drivers that can either be
installed manually, or via "Express install". Amongst the list should
be
RealTek AC97 Codec Driver (i.e. onboard sound)
Realtek LAN driver
Silicon Image RAID driver

In My computer down to devices, yellow question marks are showing by the
audio card and the ethernet card, which are both enabled in the BIOS

I installed the sound driver by doing the "update driver" business using
the same CD, and that has cured itself, but why didn't it show on the
driver page like it should have?

I've tried a similar process for the ethernet card, but that won't play
ball. Theoretically I could get the drivers off the internet from this
machine, but for someone building a machine from scratch, this should
not be a requirement.

Again, similar for the SI RAID. Probably for this one, my hard disks
are only connected to the SATA interface, so I had to get the drivers
and press F6 during the load, I don't see any yellow question mark in
devices for this one, but the driver isn't being listed as "already
installed" on the above page

So can anyone explain the reason I am not getting the option to install
the drivers on the express install. My BIOS says 6.00 PG and the BIOS
string is 10/11/2004-nVidia-nForce-6A61BG0MC-00

Many thanks
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Mike

Rudy Kube · Guest

Did you also install the drivers from the gigabyte disk 'VIA chipsets,
Motherboard utilities'? I just had to do a major rebuild after a crash and
installed utilities from both disks. All is well so far.

Rudy
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