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- murphykieran
OKay, so I've got a home-built PC.
I've recently bought a brand new mobo, HD and graphics card and I fitted them today. So I booted from the Windows CD, and went through the whole rigmarole or installing Windows. It's a new mobo with a new SATA HD. I go through all that crap that you have to go through and when the PC eventually reboots, I go through some more crap. You all know the typical crap when installing WinXP.
Anyhoo. Eventually Windows installs and I'm back at my desktop. My old IDE HD is now the D or E drive or something. Anyway my old files are okay, so I want to get my ass in gear and reinstall all my software and hardware so things are back to normal.
But I can't.
Windows refuses to acknowledge any sort of network or internet connection. Which is weird. In my experience of installing new mobos and stuff on my PC, at least Windows will automatically pick up the internet connection. I've got a DSL connection so my priority is getting it up and running so I can get internet access and download drivers for hardware and stuff.
But no. No internet. It doesn't even acknowledge the existence of the ethernet port on the mobo. It's telling me there's a 1394 network connection (the firewire port), but no ethernet connection.
So I'm all pissed off and stuff and reboot the PC. It won't reboot. It refuses to acknowledge a bootable OS on either my new 200Gb SATA HD or my old 160GB IDE HD, no matter which drive I tell it to boot from first.
It's some Epox mobo if that's any help to anyone. I've installed Windows THREE times in a row tonight and each time the story is the exact same. It refuses to acknowledge any sort of network or 'net and when it's rebooted after it's first successful boot, it won't boot from my brand new Windows install on my new SATA HD OR from the old IDE drive.
Any help? Surely it should be a trivial matter to boot from the Windows CD, install Windows to a new SATA HD and then boot from it and go about the usual business or installing software and drivers and ****. No?
KM.
I've recently bought a brand new mobo, HD and graphics card and I fitted them today. So I booted from the Windows CD, and went through the whole rigmarole or installing Windows. It's a new mobo with a new SATA HD. I go through all that crap that you have to go through and when the PC eventually reboots, I go through some more crap. You all know the typical crap when installing WinXP.
Anyhoo. Eventually Windows installs and I'm back at my desktop. My old IDE HD is now the D or E drive or something. Anyway my old files are okay, so I want to get my ass in gear and reinstall all my software and hardware so things are back to normal.
But I can't.
Windows refuses to acknowledge any sort of network or internet connection. Which is weird. In my experience of installing new mobos and stuff on my PC, at least Windows will automatically pick up the internet connection. I've got a DSL connection so my priority is getting it up and running so I can get internet access and download drivers for hardware and stuff.
But no. No internet. It doesn't even acknowledge the existence of the ethernet port on the mobo. It's telling me there's a 1394 network connection (the firewire port), but no ethernet connection.
So I'm all pissed off and stuff and reboot the PC. It won't reboot. It refuses to acknowledge a bootable OS on either my new 200Gb SATA HD or my old 160GB IDE HD, no matter which drive I tell it to boot from first.
It's some Epox mobo if that's any help to anyone. I've installed Windows THREE times in a row tonight and each time the story is the exact same. It refuses to acknowledge any sort of network or 'net and when it's rebooted after it's first successful boot, it won't boot from my brand new Windows install on my new SATA HD OR from the old IDE drive.
Any help? Surely it should be a trivial matter to boot from the Windows CD, install Windows to a new SATA HD and then boot from it and go about the usual business or installing software and drivers and ****. No?
KM.
