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Windows XP Home Edition Disasterpiece

  • 27-10-2004 9:29pm
    #1
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭


    Lets start at the very beginning..... I recently pieced together a fairly top range pc, nothing too complicated, AMD 64 3000+ processor, 512MB ram, GeForce FX 5200 graphics, 40 GB seagate hard drive, philips dvd-rom and 8x Dual DVD-RW drive, all on a SiS 755-A motherboard, all brand new except the hard drive. Pieced it together, called microsoft, told a few lies and installed XP Home from a recovery cd, everything was in perfect working order.
    I then connected an old hard drive to my pc in an effort to wipe it as it was shot to hell and wouldnt boot, and in the process somehow managed to format my own hard drive, which baffles me....
    Anyway, rather than call microsoft and tell more lies i simply went out and bought XP Home Edition and installed it. The old hard drive was taken out of the equation beforehand by the way. After the installation, The onboard sound device (Realtek AC97) would not work, with a Code 39 error, saying the device drivers are either corrupt or missing. I tried reinstalling the drivers first from the CD supplied with the motherboard, and then from newly downloaded drivers, with the exact same results. It was working perfectly with the previous installation of XP...
    On a side note, I can not install McAfee VirusScan or Firewall, just gives me uninformative error messages suggesting i reboot and try again, which doesn't help. Can't find any windows updates to alleviate any of these problems. My DVD-RW drive also behaves strangely, sometimes Windows won't detect a CD in the drive, sometimes it recognises the drive as simply a CD-ROM drive...
    Thank you for being so patient as to read this far, and help will be much appreciated!


Comments

  • #2
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    You see what happens to liars? Should have just bought it from day one.

    Try going into the deivce manager and removing the existing drivers first, there could be a conflict taking place when you install the new ones.


  • #3
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    I have done that on several occasions, to no avail. As for the lying, I did format the hard drive first so the previous OS and settings shouldn't have any affect...


  • #4
    Mutant_Fruit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,943 ✭✭✭Mutant_Fruit


    If its SP2, there could be an issue with the .msi install package. If McAfee doesn't use that, then ignore this. But googling for the .msi package error message should provide links to fix the problem.

    As for the hardware, it sounds like windows is fecked. Don't ask me how or why, but i'd first try and do a non-SP2 install (if your new disc IS Sp2) and then see if it works.

    If thats not possible, just install windows as normal, and google for "SP2 (enter broken hardware/software name) fix" and see what shows up. Unless we get more detailed error messages, nothing much can be done.

    EDIT: For error code 39 try... here or more importantly HERE, the microsoft site.

    I used the search terms: "Windows XP error code 39" in google.


  • #5
    test999
    Closed Accounts Posts: 120 ✭✭test999


    For some reason I'm thinkin the motherboard jumpers need to be tickled.


  • #6
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    Are you familiar with the motherboard in question? there a f*** all jumpers 'im afraid...
    Mutant, i've tried everything under the sun now with mcafee, no joy... and the audio drivers now give me a Code 10 error, the device could not start apparently... this is drivin me mad...


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  • #7
    flyinfishmonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭flyinfishmonkey


    PC's SUCK!!!!!!! Whitesnake ROCK!!!!

    Looks like no-one has the solving of your problem schillaci... And there was me telling you that you would be in on dated with helpful solutions. I don't know... The world's gone mad! Monkey Mad!

    Pops


  • #8
    Buzz_Irl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 144 ✭✭Buzz_Irl


    if i were u i would do ascratch install (espas u now own windows !)

    after the scratch install update ALL your device drivers

    when this has happened me this has always solved the problem - once a system gets confused ur screwed ! apartfrom relativelysimple probs

    Buzz


  • #9
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    i got frustrated and shouted and huffed and puffed.... and reformatted the hard drive. no real loss,just boring and annoying. it remedied the audio drivers issue, but there's something deeper and more evil at work here!

    basically i cantinstall anything from cds, e.g. McAfee VirusScan + Firewall, the nVidia desktop manager(dont need the drivers, they were installed off the XP cd but im workin a multiple moniter environment and cant set up anything, its just defaulted to clone....who needs to see the same image twice?!), the drivers for my auio device(had to download them), and adobe reader off the mcafee cd. I'm using a Philips PCA424D DVD-ROM and a DVD-RW IDE1008, and the same problem exists using either drive... HELP!


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