Bad Media Center 2005 Reinstall

[Guest Churchy LaFemme]

I had to reformat my hard drive and reinstall Windows MCE 2005 on my Dell XPS

400, using the reinstallation DVD. However, there are now two problems. One,

there is no sound, even though Device Manager shows "audio codecs." Second,

an attached ethernet cable is not recognized, and Device Manager shows a

yellow exclamation mark (no driver) for "Ethernet Controller," as well as for

PCI Device, PCI Simple Communications Controller, SM Bus Controller, Unknown

Device, and Video Controller (VGA Compatible). So I cannot connect to my

router and get online. Any help will be appreciated.

[Guest Nepatsfan]

Re: Bad Media Center 2005 Reinstall

 

"Churchy LaFemme" <ChurchyLaFemme@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:B93EB57D-72CE-4242-9CC2-4AD62465259B@microsoft.com...

>I had to reformat my hard drive and reinstall Windows MCE 2005 on my Dell XPS

> 400, using the reinstallation DVD. However, there are now two problems. One,

> there is no sound, even though Device Manager shows "audio codecs." Second,

> an attached ethernet cable is not recognized, and Device Manager shows a

> yellow exclamation mark (no driver) for "Ethernet Controller," as well as for

> PCI Device, PCI Simple Communications Controller, SM Bus Controller, Unknown

> Device, and Video Controller (VGA Compatible). So I cannot connect to my

> router and get online. Any help will be appreciated.

 

Did your Dell come with a Resources CD? If so, you can use it to install drivers

for your network adapter as well as the other problem devices listed in Device

Manager. If you didn't get that CD, do the following;

 

Look on the back of your computer for a sticker with a bar code and a 7

character alphanumeric code. This is your system's service tag. Go to this web

site, enter the service tag, and download the latest drivers for all your

hardware devices.

 

Drivers and Downloads

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen

 

Good luck

 

Nepatsfan

[Guest Shenan Stanley]

Re: Bad Media Center 2005 Reinstall

 

Churchy LaFemme wrote:

> I had to reformat my hard drive and reinstall Windows MCE 2005 on

> my Dell XPS 400, using the reinstallation DVD. However, there are

> now two problems. One, there is no sound, even though Device

> Manager shows "audio codecs." Second, an attached ethernet cable is

> not recognized, and Device Manager shows a yellow exclamation mark

> (no driver) for "Ethernet Controller," as well as for PCI Device,

> PCI Simple Communications Controller, SM Bus Controller, Unknown

> Device, and Video Controller (VGA Compatible). So I cannot connect

> to my router and get online. Any help will be appreciated.

 

http://www.dell.com

Support web page

Get drivers and install tthe drivers you need. I would just

download/install them all if you are unsure.

 

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