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Captain Spencer

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Computery Wizardry
« on: July 28, 2009, 20:20:14 »
Well a bit of a strange title, but I guess once you get to the bottom of this post you might see why.

I have aquired a second-hand motherboard which appears to be in good condition. Upon reinstalling windows I tried to install all the driver updates only to find that no matter what drivers I try and install, Windows fails to start the device.

Furthermore, when I try and install the drivers (found from the proper website & the windows drivers) for the VGA, LAN OR Sound they all install the drivers ok, but fail to start.

Now what could the problem be? This board appears to be functioning properly apart from this issue. I have replaced the RAM and CPU and I've reinstalled Windows twice. I'm beginning to think that Windows is not assigning the devices a proper IRQ, which is causing a conflict. Trouble it, what is it conflicting with??  ???

Anyone have ANY ideas, cause I'm beginning to give up hope, and it is rather important if I can get this board running how it should, because I might just be able to build a half decent computer to last me a little longer!!

The board is a ECS GS7610 ULTRA. I have the latest BIOS updates installed. However, Windows is NOT up to date, I have installed service pack 3 downloaded from another computer.

Anyone have any Computery Wizardry, please?

Thanks in advance,
Adam
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Captain Spencer

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Re: Computery Wizardry
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2009, 00:26:42 »
Anyone, please?  :-\
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TNeves

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Re: Computery Wizardry
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2009, 02:06:45 »
I don't know exactly what the problem is, however we may try different things:

1- First of all, a clear cmos, with the battery off, all the cable disconnected for about 30 minutes.
2- Try to disable things that you don't use, like serial port, parallel.

Are you using the integrated graphic card? If not disable it.
Are you using the same copy of windows? Try to use a friends copy and use your serial, just to confirm that the copy that you are using has no corrupted data.
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Re: Computery Wizardry
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2009, 02:09:43 »
Hi TNeves,

I have finally been able to get the computer sorted. Updated the drivers with very different drivers for other boards and the system is chugging away happily.

Thanks for the space to post this though hehe!

Adam
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TNeves

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Re: Computery Wizardry
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2009, 02:11:58 »
Quote from: CaptainSpencer on July 29, 2009, 02:09:43
Hi TNeves,

I have finally been able to get the computer sorted. Updated the drivers with very different drivers for other boards and the system is chugging away happily.

Thanks for the space to post this though hehe!

Adam

Glad to see that everything is working as it should ;D Sometimes a PC can be very mysterious :angel: :2thumbs:
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Re: Computery Wizardry
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2009, 02:50:58 »
Tell me about it  ::)

Ohh well, at least I have it sorted now anyway  :2thumbs:
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