reformat problem

Silver Bullet · Post by **Silver Bullet** » Sat Aug 18, 2001 5:37 pm

After reformatting my hard drive it doesn't reconize any hardware...video card, sound card or nic. any advice appreciated.

P3 800
CUSL2
98SE
256 Crucial RAM
Prophet II Ultra
Montego II Quadzilla

Splitfire · Post by **Splitfire** » Sat Aug 18, 2001 6:26 pm

What do you mean by "my hard drive doesn't recognize any hardware"? Your hard drive shouldn't have to recognize any hardware. Need more details than that.

Silver Bullet · Post by **Silver Bullet** » Sat Aug 18, 2001 6:34 pm

Oops, I meant Windows doesn't see any of my hardware. They don't show in Device Manager.

Sorry for the confusion,
greg

Splitfire · Post by **Splitfire** » Sat Aug 18, 2001 7:39 pm

Have you installed drivers for them?

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sat Aug 18, 2001 8:19 pm

That's still pretty vague man. Explain.

You formatted the drive, then you installed Windows, right?

Which version of Windows?

Windows isn't detecting all your devices now after it installed, right?

What didn't it detect? Some devices require you to run an installation program first (some video cards for instance aren't detected until you install the software).

Also, check your Device Manager - do you have any "Other Devices". These are generally devices that didn't install properly. Remove any Other devices to allow Windows to redect them.

Also try running the Add/Remove Hardware wizard. Sometimes Windows misses something on the initial install.

Other than that, give us details on which devices aren't being detected.

NascarFool · Post by **NascarFool** » Sat Aug 18, 2001 9:55 pm

Is Plug and play disabled in the bios ?

Silver Bullet · Post by **Silver Bullet** » Sun Aug 19, 2001 6:51 pm

I was just so frustrated and even depressed that I was having so much trouble with something I thought was in my window of experience, I had done this about a year ago with no problems.

Just to catch up:

The OS is 98se.

I toggled plug and play off and on in BIOS...still not sure which is correct.

Windows never did detect any of my cards. Windows would freeze on shutdown. Luckily I remembered reading here once if you have a open network card that it could cause problems. Everytime I tried to disable or remove in Device Manager Windows would lockup...pulled the card and problem solved.

Took a shot in the dark on the sound card. In Device Manager I had a yellow mark under sound on pci multimedia something... hit update driver and pointed to the latest drivers I had downloaded for my sound card and there it is. Before this I had installed the application cd and even pulled the card without Windows asking for the drivers.

Basiclly did the same thing for the video card.

Pulled the DSL card and installed the software first...it went the way it's supposed to.

I have ran scandisk and defrag and here I sit...feeling much better now.

Thanks so much for the replies,
greg

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