A7N8X-E Driver Problem

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Hada A7N8X...ran like a swiss watch...had a CPU go bad and picked up
the A7N8X-E board. New 2800+ XP and new corsair memory. Cannot load
the Nvidia drivers from the disk. Downloaded latest from Nvidia and
still won't load. Downloaded "approved" drivers from Asus and still
won't load. The wizard...bless its rotten heart...keeps coming up and
looking for a location...I give it the location...and it still can't
load the drivers. The AGP to PCI, the PCI controllers, and the network
port drivers won't load. This make the boad a problem to use.

Cannot figure out how to get the drivers get loaded on this board.
Never had this problem before.

Running XP sp2.

Help me, oh Obe wan Kenobi!!!

Henry
 
Hada A7N8X...ran like a swiss watch...had a CPU go bad and picked up
the A7N8X-E board. New 2800+ XP and new corsair memory. Cannot load
the Nvidia drivers from the disk. Downloaded latest from Nvidia and
still won't load. Downloaded "approved" drivers from Asus and still
won't load. The wizard...bless its rotten heart...keeps coming up and
looking for a location...I give it the location...and it still can't
load the drivers. The AGP to PCI, the PCI controllers, and the network
port drivers won't load. This make the boad a problem to use.

Cannot figure out how to get the drivers get loaded on this board.
Never had this problem before.

Running XP sp2.

Help me, oh Obe wan Kenobi!!!

Henry
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I had probs loading the newer nforce2 drivers as well, I reinstalled a
couple times with a few reboots, finally they took, never had this glitch
with previous nforce2 drivers.
I think the package was 5.10 just came out a last week.
 
Thought that McAfee might be problem. Shut it off and even went to
save mode...no joy. These drivers just won't install. Got the latest
from ASUS and from Nvidia and not difference.

I am at a loss what to do next..if anything. Probably just get a LAN
board and sound card and buypass all the on-board stuff. Shame,
really.

Henry
 
Sometime on, or about Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:10:48 -0500,
Thought that McAfee might be problem. Shut it off and even went to
save mode...no joy. These drivers just won't install. Got the latest
from ASUS and from Nvidia and not difference.

I am at a loss what to do next..if anything. Probably just get a LAN
board and sound card and buypass all the on-board stuff. Shame,
really.

Henry
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Exactly what error message(s) do you get when you try to load the
drivers?

Besides turning off the antivirus, did you try cleaning out the Temp
folders (both of them... under Windows and under your login name)? Is
anything listed in the Add/remove programs app in Control Panel... if
so, try undeleting what did get installed first. Then, get rid of the
nVidia folder(s) in Program Files. Also, make sure you're logged in as
an administrator when you load these drivers.

Sam
 
Sometime on, or about Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:10:48 -0500,


Exactly what error message(s) do you get when you try to load the
drivers?

Besides turning off the antivirus, did you try cleaning out the Temp
folders (both of them... under Windows and under your login name)? Is
anything listed in the Add/remove programs app in Control Panel... if
so, try undeleting what did get installed first. Then, get rid of the
nVidia folder(s) in Program Files. Also, make sure you're logged in as
an administrator when you load these drivers.

Sam
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Just one added thought... when you changed motherboards, did you run a
repair install of Windows? When I did the exact same thing a couple
months ago, that's what I had to do first. That forces the OS to
recognize the new chipset and other components properly.

Sam
 
Sam, the answer to all your suggestions is, no I didn't do that. You
have given me a list of things that I will try. Thanks.

OK, here's an off topic: I can't get system Info in XP to work. Gives
me a blank page saying that it can't get the system info.....MS site
says something about a Visual Studio needing to be re-installed!!!
What the hell is that?? MSINFO32 is present but does not
execute...something about Wndows Management Instrumentation not turned
on or some such thing.

Any ideas on this one...way of topic, I know.

Henry
 
Assuming this is the same sys with driver problems, you need to do a repair
install of win, as you changed hw.
before you play around with anything else
 
I have cycled all the way through the security updates and sp2 on my
current load. So, can can I do a repair from the sp2 disk or do I have
to go back to the install disk and then do sp2 and then all the stray
updates that sp2 does not contain?

I now have dial up and that prospect really puts me off if I have to
do a bunch of downloads. God bless high speed connections!!!!

Henry
 
Sometime on, or about Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:39:03 -0500,
I have cycled all the way through the security updates and sp2 on my
current load. So, can can I do a repair from the sp2 disk or do I have
to go back to the install disk and then do sp2 and then all the stray
updates that sp2 does not contain?

I now have dial up and that prospect really puts me off if I have to
do a bunch of downloads. God bless high speed connections!!!!

Henry
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To do a repair option you'll need to use your original XP disk (unless
you've created a slipstreamed disk that includes sp2). Your sp2 disk
from Microsoft won't help you do this process. What you do is boot off
the original XP CD... eventually you'll come to a screen that says
Repair. Despite what it says at this point, continue on (if you hit R
here you'll end up at the command console prompt, which won't help
you). If you do continue, you'll eventually get to a second screen
that also uses Repair... this is where you hit R. The repair option
will look like an install, but it will preserve your basic settings.
Part of the process, though, will be to totally re-detect your
hardware. That's the part you really need. Be sure you have your
Product Key, you'll need it to finish the install. Once it's done,
apply sp2 and then install the nVidia drivers.

Personally, I prefer to do a complete re-install. I think you get a
cleaner installation that way, but that's just me. The down side is
that you need to reinstall all of your software, etc. If you have all
your installation disks, you can usually get things back up and
running pretty quickly though.

Sam
 
I agree with your assessment. I have so much stuff to reinstall that I
will keep my fingers crossed the repair is all I need.

Thanks for the help. BTW, my off topic issue with System Info was easy
to fix...once I found the KB report that said how to fix it. The
Windows Management Instrumentation service has to be fixed using a cmd
line delete and re-install. It took me many months and efforts to
finally stumble on this simple fix. Pass it along...I asked in the
Windows XP forum and never got an answer...must have been too simple
for them!!!

Thanks, again.

Henry
 
Long time ago, you used to be able to go in to Device Manger and remove all
the items, if you will. Don't re-boot, and remove the ide drivers last.
You will probably have to shutdown hard. It's an old trick that I have seen
and did a couple of times on several 95-me machines. You have to be a geek
though and it don't always work.
 
Long time ago, you used to be able to go in to Device Manger and remove all
the items, if you will. Don't re-boot, and remove the ide drivers last.
You will probably have to shutdown hard. It's an old trick that I have seen
and did a couple of times on several 95-me machines. You have to be a geek
though and it don't always work.
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It also works best from the Safe Mode. I've tried it myself, but still
prefer the Repair option. It seems to be a cleaner install. Of course
the best option of all is to do a totally new install and then
reinstall all your software.

Sam
 
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